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Dingle musician Aoife Granville joined in the celebrations of International women s day this week by organising women from around the world to play an unladylike instrument . A flute player and teacher as well as an academic, Aoife began a quest to look at the history of women in flute playing and found to her surprise that the instrument was very rarely played by women before the 1970s. There was a perception in Irish traditional music circles that some instruments were more suitable for women and that the flute was not one of them. It wasn t considered ladylike, said Aoife, who is herself an acclaimed flute player. ....
The Rolling Wave on RTÉ Radio 1 marked International Women’s Day by inviting female traditional musicians to choose music from some of their favourite female artists - listen above. Songs and tunes were chosen by musicians Geraldine Cotter, Máire Ní Ghráda, Róisín Chambers, Rosie Stewart, Michelle Mulcahy, Therese McInerney and June McCormack and you can listen back to it here. Also included in the show was a special track from Mná na Feadóige Móra . The Rolling Wave presenter Aoife Nic Cormaic Last October flute player Aoife Granville joined Aoife Nic Cormaic on The Rolling Wave to talk about the history of women flute players in Irish Traditional Music, and they found surprisingly few recordings of women playing the flute prior to the 1970s. The earliest recording played on the programme was from Teresa Gardiner, recorded in 1959 - listen back to the show here. ....