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• 1 media/wsgm_Broadus_ho.JPG 2021-08-02T20:23:22-07:00 Irving Broadus 13 Irving Broadus: November 20, 1922 plain 2023-01-22T12:59:20-08:00 Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody (1922) 11/22/1920 30.410232, -88.791867 From the collection of Hugh O'Rourke To the Admirable Irving Broadus,
  Famous Free-hand Fiddler
  With Compliments of the Compiler, Editor + Publisher.
  Francis O'Neill
  Nov 20 '22
  
  
  Capt. Francis O'Neill wrote about Irving Broadus in an article for the Cork Examiner in 1934, one of the last things he ever wrote:
  THE TRADITIONAL SWING
  No one endowed with musical discrimination will deny that there is an appreciable difference between the rendering of Irish dance tunes, by modern musicians, and the traditional or natural swing of the untutored fiddler, whether hailing from Ireland, the backwoods of Mississippi, or Missouri, the prairies of Illinois, or Indiana, or even the hills of Dixieland. For instance, Irving Broadus, a pioneer Illinois farmer, who passed his winters on the Gulf Coast, not alone filled the halls at every entertainment, but "stole the show" with his fiddling, although his daughter, a clever pianist and violinist, college trained, was also on the program. Mr. Broadus, who is of Welsh ancestry, never learned to read music.
  
  Biography:
  O’Neill must have known Broadus from his winter home in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, which he bought after he retired.
  [Michael O'Malley]
  
  Provenance: 
  From the collection of Capt. Hugh O'Rourke (ret. NYPD), who purchased this copy on ebay for his library of music.