John Doherty (fiddler)

John Doherty (1895-1980) is perhaps the best-known of the vibrant living tradition of fiddle playing in County Donegal, Ireland. He is held up by Irish traditional musicians as an example of the very best of Irish fiddlers, easily in the same rank as Michael Coleman and Padraig O'Keeffe, his contemporaries. He had a voluminous repertoire of tunes that he played with an unusual, distinctively "lonesome" style that has often been compared to the highland bagpipes.