300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty: Traditional Irish Music on the wooden flute, note-for-note as taught to me by himself. Paperback – November 7, 2022

Lesl Harker, player and teacher of the Irish flute, has published two award-winning Rafferty tune books of Irish Traditional Music, and this is the first of them. Both books were authorised by the late East Galway flute player and National Heritage Fellow Mike Rafferty, for use by students, teachers, Irish traditional musicians and enthusiasts. Lesl spent 13 years studying and playing with Mike, and her books document his approach to the music.300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty contains Lesl's first 300 lesson tunes from Mike. These tunes are transcribed from Mike's own flute settings, and are also very playable by other traditional melody instruments.The tunes are fully indexed, and some can be found on commercial recordings made by Mike Rafferty himself. Additional information about the books can be found on Lesl's own teaching website at https://iflute.weebly.com/This very popular "Book One" (nine print runs since 2006) is now being offered here on Amazon to ensure that it remains available to a global audience. It's Irish Traditional Music from the master, the Mighty Mike Rafferty."... Mike and his generation carry so much precious music that documenting and preserving any part of it is a real contribution to Irish music." - BW Read more