Martin Crehan lived all his life in the west Clare house where he was born, learning the fiddle from Thady Casey and playing for country house dances until they faded in the 1930s. He was a friend of Willie Clancy and Johnny Doran, a stalwart of Comhaltas in Clare, and wrote tunes still widely played, among them The Mist Covered Mountain.
Junior Crehan
Fiddler and tune composer; west Clare
- Born
- 1908, Ballymackea Beg, County Clare
- Died
- 1998
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