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A pilgrimage to the home of an Irish music legend

We travel for many reasons, sometimes for a song. That's what took me in May to a hillside overlooking a country cottage near Armagh, Northern Ireland. Over hay wagon-wide farm roads, I tooled for hours in a little rental car on an improbable ride to the ancestral home of a musical hero, Tommy Makem.

Veronica Traener,78, playing fiddle in Tossies Cottage."I learned to play this when I was 9," she said.
Veronica Traener,78, playing fiddle in Tossies Cottage."I learned to play this when I was 9," she said.Read moreVeronica Traener,
    by Art Sands, For The Inquirer
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