Matt Cranitch

{{short description|Irish fiddle player|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Use Irish English|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Matt Cranitch | image = | caption = | image_size = | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = 1948 | birth_place = | death_date = | origin = | instrument = fiddle | genre = Irish | occupation = Musician | years_active = | label = Ossian, Gael Linn, Mercier, Outlet, Dolphin, Harmonia Mundi, Transatlantic, Circa, Mulligan, DARA, Cross Border Media, Kelly’s Music, MJM | associated_acts = | website = https://www.mattcranitch.com/ }}

'''Matt Cranitch''' (born 1948) is an Irish fiddle player. Cranitch is a founding member of Na Fili.<ref name="Broughton">Broughton, Simon; Ellingham, Mark & Trillo, Richard (1999) ''World Music The Rough Guide: Africa, Europe and the Middle East'', Rough Guides, {{ISBN|978-1-85828-635-8}}, p. 188</ref> He is a graduate in electrical engineering and music from University College Cork, lectures at the Cork Institute of Technology on subjects of electronic engineering and music technology. He has a particular involvement in the music of Sliabh Luachra, on the Cork/Kerry border, and is engaged in on-going research on the fiddling style of this region at the Irish World Music Centre, University of Limerick. He has written extensively on Irish traditional music. He has also been a member of the band Sliabh Notes.<ref name="NYT">"[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/08/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-958115.html?pagewanted=9&src=pm Pop and Jazz Guide]", ''New York Times'', 8 March 2002, retrieved 2011-06-24</ref><ref name="Waterford">"[http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/kfkfidauau/ Top traditional group bound to make an impression] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929183846/http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/kfkfidauau/ |date=2011-09-29 }}", ''Waterford News & Star'', 12 September 2003, retrieved 2011-06-24</ref> He currently lives in County Cork.{{fact|date=November 2025}}

==Discography==

'''Solo albums'''

* ''The Irish Fiddle Book (Demonstration Recording)'' (Ossian OSSCD4, 1988) * ''Take a Bow'' (Ossian OSSCD5, 1988) * ''Give it Shtick'' (Ossian OSSCD6, 1988) * ''Éistigh Seal'' (Gael Linn CEF104, 1984; CEFCD104, 2005)

'''With Na Filí'''

* ''An Ghaoth Aniar'' (Mercier IRL9, 1969) * ''Farewell to Connacht'' (Outlet SOLP1010, 1971) * ''Na Filí 3'' (Outlet SOLP1017, 1972) * ''A Kindly Welcome'' (Dolphin DOL1008, 1974) * ''Folklore aus Ireland'' (Harmonia Mundi 20 22159-8, 1975) * ''Chanter’s Tune'' (Transatlantic TRA353, 1977) * ''One Day for Recreation'' (Circa 003, 1978)

'''With Dave Hennessy & Mick Daly'''

* ''Any Old Time'' (Mulligan LUN047, 1982) * ''Phoenix'' (DARA CD025, 1987) * ''Crossing'' (DARA CD072, 1995)

'''With Dónal Murphy & Tommy O’Sullivan'''

* ''Sliabh Notes'' (Cross Border Media CBMCD018, 1995; Kells Music KM-9506, 1996) * ''Gleanntán'' (Ossian OSSCD114, 1999) * ''Along Blackwater’s Banks'' (Ossian OSSCD130, 2002)

'''With Jackie Daly'''

* ''The Living Stream'' (MJM001, 2010) * ''Rolling On'' (MJM002, 2014)

'''Compilations'''

* ''The Mountain Road: The Traditional Music of Cork and Kerry - featuring various artists'' (Ossian OSSCD84, 1995) * ''The County Bounds: Music and Song from the Cork-Kerry Border - featuring various artists, selected recordings from ‘The 1998 Seán Ó Riada International Conference’'' (Ossian OSSCD113, 1999)