Summary: Producer Frank Browning visits an Irish town where economic prosperity has locals wondering how to move forward while keeping their traditions intact.
What's not to like? It's an important and almost universal story: a community with a rich past wrestles with how to choose its future in the face of new wealth and development. The story is told in the beautifully-recorded voices of Irish villagers and through Frank Brownings always smart and engaging writing. For all its familiarity in the abstract, this story is filled with details and twists that make it absolutely fresh: the woman with the thatched-roof cottage, the fiddle music, the Persian Jewish "blow-in" violin maker. A town faced with the choice of becoming a "dormitory town" or a "Disneyland of Irishness" instead chooses music. A lovely story, musically told. Highly recommended.
Comments for Kinvara: A Spirit of Place
This piece belongs to the series "Worlds of Difference"
Produced by Frank Browning
Other pieces by Homelands Productions
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John Biewen
Posted on August 20, 2006 at 08:27 AM | Permalink
Review of Kinvara: A Spirit of Place
What's not to like? It's an important and almost universal story: a community with a rich past wrestles with how to choose its future in the face of new wealth and development. The story is told in the beautifully-recorded voices of Irish villagers and through Frank Brownings always smart and engaging writing. For all its familiarity in the abstract, this story is filled with details and twists that make it absolutely fresh: the woman with the thatched-roof cottage, the fiddle music, the Persian Jewish "blow-in" violin maker. A town faced with the choice of becoming a "dormitory town" or a "Disneyland of Irishness" instead chooses music. A lovely story, musically told. Highly recommended.