Posted in Flute Player, Flute Teacher, Ireland, Irish Flute, Irish Traditional Music, Musicians, News on Jul 13th, 2007 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Flute Player, Ireland, Irish Flute, Irish Traditional Music, Music, Musicians, Wooden Flute on Jul 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Ireland, Irish Traditional Music, Shardul, Uilleann Pipes on Jun 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Flute Player, Ireland, Irish Flute, Irish Traditional Music, Music, Musicians, New Zealand on Jun 15th, 2007 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Ireland, Irish Flute, Irish Traditional Music, Music, Musicians, Shardul, Travel on Jun 8th, 2007 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Irish Flute, Irish Traditional Music, Musicians, Tin Whistle, Wooden Flute on May 31st, 2007 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Flute Player, Irish Flute, Irish Traditional Music, Music, Musicians, Wooden Flute on May 25th, 2007 No Comments »
In celebration of completing KiwiCelt, I’ve prepared a little treat! Seamus Tansey is one of Ireland’s all-time most respected flute players who hails from Gorteen in County Sligo. In her interview on A Guide to the Irish Flute, Catherine McEvoy, another Irish flute playing legend, comments that Seamus Tansey was among the flute players that [...]
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