Frank Harte

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Frank Harte (May 14, 1933 - June 27, 2005) is a traditional Irish singer, song collector, architect and lecturer. She was born in Chapelizod, County Dublin, and grew up in Dublin. His father, Peter Harte, who had moved from an agricultural background in Sligo, had a pub 'The Tap' in Chapelizod. Frank emigrated to the United States for a short time, but then returned to Ireland where he worked as an architect, lecturer at DIT (Dublin Institute of Technology) in Rathmines, Dublin and later involved fully in the songs in many ways.

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The introduction of Frank Harte to traditional Irish singing came, he said, from the possibility of listening to a traveler selling ballads at the fair in Boyle, County Roscommon.

Frank became a major exponent of the Dublin street ballads, who preferred to be sung unaccompanied. He is widely known for his distinctive singing, his Dublin accent has a rich nasal quality that completes his high list. Her voice softened on her later recording, allowing for expressive interpretation of many love songs like 'My Bonny Light Horseman' on the album 'My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte'. This contrasts with Frank's convincing interpretation of the popular 'Molly Malone'. He also became more accustomed to singing with accompaniment that was not part of the Irish singing tradition and did not come naturally to him.

Although the Republic of Ireland is in politics, he believes that Irish song traditions do not necessarily be sectarian or nationalist conservation: "The Orange song is as valid as the Fenian expression". He believes that the song is the key to understanding the past that often says: "those in charge of writing history, while those who suffer from writing songs, and, given our history, we have so many songs." Although considered a supporter of traditional Irish hymns and well aware of it, Frank does not regard himself as a singer sean-nÃÆ'³s.

She states that she likes to sing her love song rather than the desire to please the audience: "A traditional singer does not sing for a commercial audience so she does not have to please the audience." His repertoire included, among many others, songs from the 1798 uprising, Napoleon ballads and Zozimus street ballads. In addition to traditional songs, he also sang many music hall songs such as' The Charladies' Ball 'and' Biddy Mulligan 'popularized by Jimmy O'Dea.

Frank won the All-Ireland singing competition Fleadh Cheoil on a number of occasions and in 2003, he received the Traditional Singer Award of the Year from the Irish TG4 television channel.

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Song Collecting

Frank began collecting from the beginning of his life and he remembered buying a ballad from a man who sold it with a sheet on the side of Adelphi Cinema and at the end of his life collected a database of over 15,500 records.

As a young man, Frank found many songs in his father's pub, 'The Tap', in Chapelizod says:

"This is a great mixture of people in Chapelizod - Catholic and Protestant." There are also some of the flailing parent - Dublin Fusiliers who have returned from the First World War and they all have feedback as well. They have a song -this is about soldiers who go to war and leave behind lovers and they all are sweepers, I will also hear many old hall songs and melodrama songs of Victoria like She Was Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage or.. things that will tear at your heart, make you cry. "

He once wrote about the song he collected:

"I've been collecting songs all over the country for years now, and I rarely find singers who do not want to part with their songs, maybe they realize as I do, that the songs are not theirs , just as they do not belong to the person they get from them. "

It is a philosophy that Frank continues to support himself, having given countless tunes and encouragement to singers in Ireland and abroad for over fifty years. Recipients of songs and information about them include Christy Moore, Andy Irvine, Karan Casey, The Voice Squad, and musicians.

Despite his vast collection, he strongly believes that songs exist only when sung and to add to the essence, he often quotes the 'Living Ghosts' poem by Brendan Kennelly:

All songs are live ghost

And missed the live sound

Frank was mentioned by a member of Planxty in the band's biography by Leagues O'Toole, 'The Humours of Planxty' as the source of the song.

"The Little Drummer" is a song broadcast by fabulous Dublin singer and collector Frank Harte. "He's probably the single most important song collector," Christy said.

"I remember Christy and I went to Frank Harte for the song," Andy added. â € Å"I know Frank from the beginning of my career. He was an architect who lived in Chapelizod and I first met him around 1963. He was always a bit to one side. It will be Johnny Moynihan and myself and our clique, and Ronnie Drew and The Dubliners, all more or less at the same age, and Frank may be seven or eight years older than me. I like it very much. '

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Recordings

Frank recorded several albums and made various television and radio appearances, notably the Singing Voices series he wrote and presented for Radio RT, produced by Peter Browne in 1987. The first two LPs, although released with six years among them, were recorded in a single session in the UK by Bill Leader with a concert accompaniment on some songs by Alf Edwards. From 1998 he recorded four albums for Hummingbird record label in which he was accompanied by Donal Lunny on bazouki and guitar. The last four albums dealt with the massive topics of the 1798 Rebellion, the Great Irish Famine, Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Irishmen abroad. Each album is typically accompanied by comprehensive liner records of meticulous research into every song and subject in question, although the accuracy and impartiality of a historian is not fully praised as a song. In 2004, Frank's first two albums were re-released on CD, though the first track of his first album 'All All The World Tour' was omitted.

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Performance

Frank used to attend Sunday morning sessions at The Brazen Head pub, along with the late Liam Weldon who runs the session. He is also an enthusiastic supporter of the An GÃÆ'³ilÃÆ'n Traditional Singing Club. Regular sessions in Irish singers, he performed at clubs, seminars, and festivals in France, England, and America and held a festival at Fleadhanna in Ireland. Frank also appeared in London at Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger's 'Singers Club' in 1971 and on two occasions.

"Harte feels that traditional singers, unlike the latter type of vocalist, have absolutely no responsibility for entertaining or pleasing those who may be listening, since the singer's true purpose is simply to perform the song, the act of the show being justified alone. "

She appeared in many American festivals including The Blarney Star in New York, Gaelic Roots at Boston College, The Catskills Irish Arts Week, the Greater Washington Ceilings Club in Maryland and the Irish Fest in Milwaukee and for seventeen years she was the true subject on Sunday Ireland every July at the Augusta Heritage Festival at Elkins in the Appalachian mountains in West Virginia where he often performs with Mick Moloney. He is also a keen interest as a teacher and gives much talk about traditional songs including a lecture entitled "My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte - the meaning of Napoleon Bonaparte in Irish Song Traditions" at Willy Clancy Summer school on July 12, 2001.

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Legacy

Frank Harte died of a heart attack, aged 72, on 27 June 2005 and survived by his wife Stella (nÃÆ' Â © e Maguire), daughter, Sinead and Orla, and her sons Darragh and Cian. His influence is still seen in singers such as Karan Casey. Frank continues to be remembered in sessions and folk clubs on both sides of the Irish sea.

At Whitby Folk Week 2005, an award for Frank Harte entitled "Through Streets Broad and Narrow" was held at the Resolution Hotel Function Room, on Monday 22 August 2005 at 18:00. It features Ken Hall and Webb Map, Jim McFarland, Niamh Parsons, Jerry O'Reilly, Jim Mageean, George Unthank, Alan Fitzsimons, Pete Wood, Grace Toland, Brian Doyle, Patricia Flynn, Geordie McIntyre and Alison MacMoreland, The Wilsons, Eamonn O'Broithe, Roisin White, Bruce Scott, Rosie Stewart, and others.

In September 2006, the first Frank Harte Festival was held and held in Dublin by Jerry O'Reilly and other members of An GÃÆ'³ilÃÆ'n Traditional Singer's Club. The second and third festivals were held in September 2007 and 2008, again hosted by An GÃÆ'³ilÃÆ'n, and the festival is intended to be an annual event that takes place on the last weekend of September each year. As part of the festival, a walk takes place around the Dublin area associated with Frank songs. In 2011 it was in Glasnevin's grave. In 2012 it is based on the center of Dublin, around Trinity College.

In May 2008, the third Frank Harte Memorial Prize was awarded at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Bolton Street, in collaboration with DIT faculty in the built neighborhood, RTÃÆ'â € ° and the Irish Teachers Union. Prizes are awarded to students in their second year of study in Technology and Construction Design.

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Discography

• Dublin Street Songs , Topic, 1967
• Via Dublin City , Topic, 1973
• And Listen to My Song , 1976
• Daybreak and Candle-End , 1987
• 1798 - First Year of Freedom , Hummingbird 1998
• My Name Napoleon Bonaparte: Traditional Songs At Napoleon Bonaparte , Hummingbird 2001
• The Hungry Voice: The Legacy Song Of Great Hunger Ireland , Hummingbird 2004
• Dublin Street Songs/Through Dublin City , Hummingbird 2004 (the first two albums are re-published on the composite CD)
• There's Gangs of Them Digging: Irish Labor Songs , Hummingbird 2007
• When Adam Is In Heaven, Traditional Love Songs and Hummingbird Hummingbird 2016

Frank also appears in many other compilations, including:

• 'Top of the Morning', Pickwick: Dublin, 1979, sang 'Biddy Mulligan'
• 'Irish Folk Favorites', Harp/Pickwick, 1990, sang 'Dicey Reilly'
• 'Irish Voices', Topic: London, 1996, singing 'The Traveler All Over the World'
• 'Irish Song From Old New England', Folk Legacy: USA, 2003, singing 'Napoleon Defeat'

In 2009 He's Rolling Into the Wall of Via Dublin City included in Topic Records 70 year anniversary set box Three Scores and Ten as a twenty track on the third CD.

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Bibliography

Songs of Dublin, 1978, Gilbert Dalton, Dublin and 1993, Ossian Publications, Cork. ISBN 978-0-946005-51-2

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Broadcast

• 'Singing Voices', the five-part series for RT Radio 1 was first broadcast in May 1987 each on different aspects of the Irish singing tradition.
• The appearance on 'Come West Along the Road' series sung by 'Napoleon Bonaparte' comes from RTÃÆ' â € ° 'Fonn' series
• The main subject of the television documentary 'Se Mo Laoch - Frank Harte' for TG4, directed by Philip King
• The main subject of the radio documentary warning "And Listen to My Song" by Peter Browne (Irish musician) for RTÃÆ'â € ° Radio. Listen here.
• The main subject of a radio documentary called 'Frank Harte Remembered' by Mick Moloney at RTÃÆ' â € "Radio a year after his death. Listen here.

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See also

• List of Irish music collectors
• Traditional Irish Singer
• An GÃÆ'³ilÃÆ'n
• Sean NÃÆ'³s

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References

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Obituary

• O'Reilly, Jerry, 'Frank Harte (1933-2005)', Folk Music Journal: The Journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library vol. 9, no 3 (2008), pp.Ã, 479-80
• NÃÆ' Fhloinn, Bairbre, "In Memoriam Frank Harte - Singer and Song-Collector 1933-2005 'in BÃÆ'Ã… © aloideas vol. 74 (2006), pp.Ã, 236-8
• Independent, The (London), 1 Jul 2005 by P. J. Gillan http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050701/ai_n14688343

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External links

• RTÃÆ' â € ° Voice of Radio Singer Series' 1987
• An interview with Luke Cheevers about the upcoming Frank Harte Festival on Radio RT's program, 'The Rolling Wave' on September 20, 2006 (17'30 "in)
• Frank sang Valentine O'Hara on YouTube
• Frank sang Napoleon Bonaparte on YouTube
• Napoleon's album review
• Frank Harte's lecture video at Kennedy Center in 2000

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