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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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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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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Kevin Crawford whistles a merry tune!
There are, no doubt, dozens or even hundreds of really good Irish flute and whistle players around the world. Some of them probably choose to remain in relative obscurity and are known and heard by very few. Many you will find at sessions small and large, or on CD’s, and [...]
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I’m almost a full month late with this article, but I would like to let the world know about the April edition of Flute Focus. It was the 10th edition and a real cracker! Flute Focus is an international quarterly flute magazine produced in New Zealand by the ebullient Mary O’Brien. Mary — aside [...]
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I would imagine that every lover of Irish traditional flute music has already forked out the paltry sum being asked for what many consider to be a unique and, as Songlines Magazine put it, “…enthralling compilation of traditional and modern Irish flute music…”. So I’m not necessarily talking to you guys and gals out there [...]
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New Zealand’s Irish Traditional Irish Music Workshops
Ceol Aneas (music of the south) invite you to a weekend of Irish Traditional Music Workshops being held in Nelson, New Zealand, from June 1 to 4, 2007. We are delighted to offer a spectacular line up of special guests for this years event, which will be the eighth [...]
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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 
