We are very fortunate to have a new interview on KiwiCelt Wooden Flutes with an inspiring individual who is one of the leading figures of the Irish traditional music scene here in New Zealand.
Based in the South Island town of Nelson, Bob Bickerton has been around the folk, Celtic and Irish traditional music scene since [...]
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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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Flute Focus is an international flute magazine produced quarterly in New Zealand.
The main feature of this edition, in Alexa Still’s words, “covers about everything you ever wanted to know about flute choirs but were to afraid to ask!” You will also find an interesting article on understanding the intricate carvings on New Zealand Maori flutes; [...]
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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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In any field of life, there are those who stand out and shine — people with abundant gifts and abilities that serve to inspire us all. In the realm of Irish traditional music and particularly Irish flute playing, one such player is Matt Molloy. To my mind, Matt is not only a brilliant player from [...]
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Once I was walking through Dublin and ended up on Grafton Street — as you do when walking through Dublin. Anyway, it was a particularly sunny day in July and Dublin’s famous mall was teeming with people; office workers out for lunch; tourists shopping, snapping, absorbing the sights and sounds; packs of ebullient Spanish youth [...]
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It’s pretty hard to come across someone who doesn’t like a good story. And I think that if some ‘genius’ did a survey (an activity that seems to be very popular these days), I’m sure we would find that real life stories are the most popular — the life-incidents and words of real people offer [...]
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... a web site dedicated to the simple system wooden flutes (aka 'Irish' flutes) that are so much a part of Irish traditional and Celtic music, and to the excellent wooden flutes produced by the Irish flute maker 
