Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar is a style of playing the music of the Celtic countries and British Isles on guitar using, yes, your fingers (instead of a plectrum) and very often one or more of a variety of tunings. This page attempts to present some of the most important aspects of this music:

• Published in 2001, Art Edelstein's biography of Irish harper Turlough Carolan
• Art has a CD "The Water is Wide" of Celtic music for fingerstyle guitar
• Celtic Fingerstyle Guitarists and Links To their Web Pages
• Where the music comes from
• Guitar Tunings Used For This Music
• A Discography of The Better Players and Their Albums
• Guitar Books With Transcriptions
• Additional Information, Links, References, Etc.




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Listen to several examples of Art playing Celtic fingerstyle guitar from his CD "The Water Is Wide"
• Blind Mary
• John Irwin
• The Water is Wide
• George Brabazon #2



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Last edited July, 2007