Matt Cranitch


Matt Cranitch is an Irish fiddle player. Cranitch is a founding member of Na Fili. He is a graduate in electrical engineering and music from University College Cork, lectures at the Cork Institute of Technology on subjects of electronic engineering and music technology. He has a particular involvement in the music of Sliabh Luachra, on the Cork/Kerry border, and is engaged in on-going research on the fiddling style of this region at the Irish World Music Centre, University of Limerick. He has written extensively on Irish traditional music. He has also been a member of the band Sliabh Notes. He currently lives in County Cork.

Discography

Solo albums
  • The Irish Fiddle Book
  • Take a Bow
  • Give it Shtick
  • Éistigh Seal
With Na Filí
  • An Ghaoth Aniar
  • Farewell to Connacht
  • Na Filí 3
  • A Kindly Welcome
  • Folklore aus Ireland
  • Chanter’s Tune
  • One Day for Recreation
With Dave Hennessy & Mick Daly
  • Any Old Time
  • Phoenix
  • Crossing
With Dónal Murphy & Tommy O’Sullivan
  • Sliabh Notes
  • Gleanntán
  • Along Blackwater’s Banks
With Jackie Daly
Compilations
See also Na Fili Discography.