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Tullamore, County Offaly - August 19th to the 26th
This years All Ireland Fleadh Cheoil is being haled as the largest festival of Irish music, song and dance ever – with over 250,000 people gathering from all over the world! With over 10,000 performers taking part in this, the 56th Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, the event […]

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If there is a fast way to get to know the quintessential qualities of any country, it must surely be through the music of that land. The traditional music of any country sits proudly on it’s head like a crown for all to see – proclaiming it’s soul and attributes. There are many bright jewels […]

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I received an email from flute and tin whistle teacher Margie Mulvihill of Pearl River in upstate New York this morning. Margie and her fiddler husband John Reynolds are very involved in teaching and performing Irish traditional music and are raising funds to take a group of local children to Ireland for the Fleadh Cheoil […]

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Catherine McEvoy is one of the leading flute players in Irish music today and a very popular teacher of that instrument. In more recent years, Catherine has been one of the senior flute tutors at the Willie Clancy Summer School in Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare. Like Kevin Crawford and Bob Bickerton, Catherine is originally from […]

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Along with the wooden flute and the Irish harp, I have a great fondness for the Uilleann pipes — although, strangely enough, I do not remember being conscious of them until I first visited Ireland in 2000. Here in New Zealand you will often hear Scottish bagpipes — indeed our little Pacific nation has more […]

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