Tony DeMarco is one of America’s finest folk fiddlers. A Brooklyn native of Irish and Italian decent, he is among the worlds leading exponent’s of the sophisticated County Sligo style of Irish fiddling. Tony’s playing has all the characteristics of great Sligo fiddling: swinging rythmic drive, a wealth of bowed and finger ornamentation, and a high degree of improvised melodic variation.

Sligo fiddling has been closely associated with the New York Irish musical tradition for many yesrs. Immigrant Sligo fiddlers in New York, notably the great Michael Coleman, James Morrison and Paddy Killoran, made hundreds of classic recordings in “the Big Apple” during the 78-rpm era. the influence of these discs back in Ireland made the Sligo style, as played in New York City, the de facto national standard for decades thereafter. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.