CÚPLA TUNES	 – ENGLISH TITLES

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CÚPLA TUNES	

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with KEVIN BURKE	

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a film by
LANE SHIPSEY
	
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Travelling into the west of Ireland, 
the city is left behind.

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Maybe the present is left 
behind a little, too.

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Irish fiddler Kevin Burke moved in
here during the restrictions.

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A cup of tea and a chat

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Well I went to America 
40 years ago…

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to spend a few years there.

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I had no intention of spending 
40 years there.

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But, you know, that’s 
the way things go.

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And then the last  
ten years or so

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I’ve been thinking more and 
more about coming back here.

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And, that all accelerated 
maybe 4 years ago

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so I started looking more 
pointedly for a house.

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Thinking if I had 
a house here

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then I’d be more likely to
actually spend more time here.

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At this stage of my life  
I don’t have much time left.

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So if I left it any later
I felt I wouldn’t do it.

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And it’s something that’s been
on my mind for many years.

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A sunny blue room

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One of the the people I heard
when I went to America

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was a fellow called 
Bill Monroe.

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Mandolin player. And a fiddle player,
but he’s known for the mandolin.

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And he’s also known as
the founder of bluegrass.

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And I heard him playing a tune one 
time called Evening Prayer Blues

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and I don’t know why,
but it just spoke to me.

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But I’m not really a bluegrass player,
so I had to alter things to suit myself.

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And this is what, this is the result.

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There we go.

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A wander and a tune

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In the big clean-up the 
garden has gone untouched.

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Kevin likes the way it 
has gone a bit wild.
 
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And may leave it that way.

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But gardens are 
always changing.

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Reversioning themselves. Like music 
and memories, like houses or cities.

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Plants grow, flower, and die.

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Or, they come back…

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…fresh shoots recurring 
in unexpected places.

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featuring master fiddler 
KEVIN BURKE

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special thanks to 
Make Film History

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archive material used with thanks to:
‘Donegal’, Tonight, © BBC Archive

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post soundscaping  
Claudia Barton

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produced and directed by 
LANE SHIPSEY

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production by 
PXL8 BEO
www.pxl8.net