Change and stability in Irish-American-Newfoundland fiddle tunes

The fiddle music in Newfoundland and Labrador is a confluence of music from Scotland, Britain, Ireland and France, with a wide variety of influences from Canada and the United States.This article considers the impact of one Irish-American vaudeville group from New York on the instrumental music of Newfoundland and Labrador -the McNulty Family, which was part of the thriving New York Irish scene from the 1920s until the 1960s.From 1944 until 1974, their music had a significant presence on the airwaves of Newfoundland through a radio show sponsored by a local clothing store.At this time, the Newfoundland traditional music recording industry was only just emerging and the McNulty's popularity was part of the development of the Irish-Newfoundland music sound and recording repertoire.This study is based on newspaper, discography, archival and ethnographic research in both New York and Newfoundland. 1 It investigates the McNultys' influence on the repertoire of Newfoundland traditional recording artists from the 1950s to today in general, and, related to this, it compares stability and change in two instrumental tunes performed by the group. The McNulty familyThe band was comprised of mother Ann (1887-1970), daughter Eileen (1915-1989), and son Peter (1917-1960).Ann McNulty was born Ann Burke in Kilteeven, Roscommon, Ireland, in 1887.In 1910, at the age of 23 she emigrated to the United States where she married John McNulty (1887-1928), who died in 1928, leaving her with two young children.Resourceful and talented, Ann formed a family band which by the early 1930s had its own radio show, The Irish Showboat, and over the years between 1935 and 1951 a stage-show of the same name which sold out fifty-five times at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Opera Hall. 2 Between 1936 and the late 1950s they recorded 155 titles on Decca, Standard, and Copley with re-issues on Colonial and Coral. 3Their music ranged from Irish songs which Ann recalled from childhood, through songs learned from older singers in New York, to Irish-American songs, vaudeville tunes, their own compositions, and instrumental music.In their stage shows the McNultys not only sang and danced but performed short skits.Their

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