Fintan Vallely is a musician, writer and speaker in and on Traditional music. A performer since his younger teens in the early 1960s, he has travelled widely playing music - in Ireland, Europe, Scandinavia, Canada, the USA, Asia and Australia, and in 1986 was the author of Timber, the first tutor for Irish flute. He teaches flute at Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy (summer school) in Co. Clare annually and at workshops internationally.

A commentator on Traditional music from 1990 – 2011, Fintan concerned himself with the scarcity of information and resource materials, while writing as a critic for The Irish Times and The Sunday Tribune, and lecturing on the music at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, later at University of Ulster, Trinity College Dublin, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Queen's University Belfast, University of Newcastle and in the USA.

Drawing together his performance and academic knowledge is his major published work Companion to Irish Traditional Music (1999, 2011, 2024), now a 960-page encyclopaedia of Irish traditional music and its related cultures.

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