Flute Focus is an international flute magazine produced quarterly in New Zealand.
Octobers bumper edition of Flute Focus highlights the Native American flute with a two page feature on the late master Comanche flute player and artist Doc Tate Nevaquaya (1932-1996) who is credited with the rejuvenation of traditional Native American flute playing. Also featured is […]
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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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Seamus Egan is a talented multi instrumentalist who plays flute, tenor banjo, mandolin, tin whistle, low whistle, guitar and bodhran. He has won All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann titles on four of those instruments – flute, banjo, bodhran and mandolin. Born in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, and raised for a time in Foxford, County Mayo, Seamus has […]
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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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Some good news: Martin Doyle, who, for those that don’t already know, is a maker of fine wooden flutes who hails from County Clare in Ireland, has just launched his own website: Martin Doyle Flutes. This from Martin’s Homepage:
Since 1983, Martin Doyle has been producing high quality simple system wooden flutes that are used predominantly […]
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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 
