Description: jimmy mchugh memorial concert web site. A Life dedicated to irish traditional music. Jimmy was a fiddler and composer of music for fiddle and accordion. His web site can be seen at http://jimmymchugh.com
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A lifetime dedicated to Irish music
Born in Omagh, County Tyrone in 1930, Jimmy grew up in Glenfinn, County Donegal where he learned to play the fiddle at a very early age and in his lifetime became recognised as one of the finest players of his generation, a prodigious talent which brought him the coveted All Ireland Fiddle Championship 1957. Jimmy emigrated to Scotland in 1946 settling in Glasgow where his contribution to the development of Irish music and culture was enormous, including the establishment of the first branch of CCE outside
Until his untimely death in January 1999, Jimmy continued to lead by example, regularly playing at ceiliis, feisanna, fleadh's as well as his Monday night sessions in Glasgow's Sharkey's Bar which continues, as Jimmy's session, to this day. Jimmy's memory lives on through his wife Ann, dancing teacher and adjudicator, his two sons Brendan and Martin, fine musicians in their own right, his many wonderful compositions and his very many friends throughout the world.