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Pipes

Joey Abarta

January 28, 2020 By Ken Fleming

Joey Abarta

Joey Abarta has spent the last 16 years touring North America, Europe, and Asia, teaching and performing music on the uilleann pipes.  A Los Angeles native, he first received instruction on the pipes from Dubliner Pat D’Arcy, a founding member of the Southern California Uilleann Pipers Club. His musical skills have been further honed by several visits to Ireland, a year-long stint working … [Read more...] about Joey Abarta

Colm Broderick

January 29, 2023 By Ken Fleming

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Colm is an award winning piper from Carlow in Ireland. He began playing the whistle at an early age and progressed onto the uilleann pipes, learning from many of Ireland’s foremost pipers.  He was selected by Na Píobairi Uilleann as the inheritor of Liam O’Flynn’s pipes, on Liam's death in 2018. He is tasked with playing and taking care of this instrument, while carrying on the legacy of its … [Read more...] about Colm Broderick

Janis Deane

January 21, 2019 By Ken Fleming

Janis Deane

Janis Deane, M.Ed., CCC-SLP is a certified Speech-Language Pathologist and has more than 30 years of experience working with patients who have voice disorders, swallowing disorders, chronic cough and vocal cord dysfunction, and those requiring voice restoration following total laryngectomy.  Janis is a classically trained singer, but also an avid instrumentalist. She has played Irish … [Read more...] about Janis Deane

Kara Doyle

February 23, 2021 By Ken Fleming

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Kara Doyle lives in Schenectady, NY, teaches English at Union College, and plays traditional Irish music on uilleann pipes and whistle. Kara was born in Wisconsin, and spent her youth in California. Moving to the Northeast for graduate school brought her into regular contact with traditional Irish music, and she began to play whistle in 1995. She contracted a severe case of uilleann piping fever … [Read more...] about Kara Doyle

Seán Gavin

February 23, 2019 By Ken Fleming

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Uilleann piper and flute player, Seán Gavin, is one of the most highly regarded Irish musicians of his generation. In 2016 he became the first and only musician born outside Ireland to win the prestigious Seán Ó Riadagold medal, and his most recent recording, a collaboration with fiddler Jesse Smith, accompanist John Blake, and bodhran player Johnny “Ringo” McDonagh, was hailed … [Read more...] about Seán Gavin

Patrick Hutchinson

February 27, 2022 By Ken Fleming

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Patrick Hutchinson is an internationally recognized performer and teacher of the Irish Uilleann pipes, with more than thirty years exerience and an eclectic repertoire that encompasses both the traditional and the experimental. Patrick has appeared on WGBH's A Celtic Sojourn, with the Cambridge Revels, and on recordings by Loreena McKennitt and Oliver Schroer, among others. He has provided the … [Read more...] about Patrick Hutchinson

John Liestman

October 31, 2018 By Ken Fleming

John Liestman

John Liestman has been playing Irish traditional music on the tenor banjo, mandolin, and uilleann pipes for over 30 years. He taught mandolin in 2011, 2012 and 2015 at the prestigious O’Flaherty Irish Music Retreat, at the 2015 St Louis Tionol, and is an instructor with the Houston School of Irish Music. Over the years he has been a member of Terry and the Pirates, Claddagh (featuring Olcan … [Read more...] about John Liestman

Brian McNamara

January 22, 2019 By Ken Fleming

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Brian McNamara hails from County Leitrim, a musically rich rural region of Ireland which has produced notable musicians past and present and which has been prominently associated with the preservation and performance of Irish Traditional Music. Introduced to the uilleann pipes in 1979, Brian has become renowned nationally and internationally for his unique musical style and repertoire. As a winner … [Read more...] about Brian McNamara

Dirk Mewes

November 4, 2018 By Ken Fleming

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Dirk Mewes works full time making uilleann pipes from his home workshop in Berthoud, Colorado.   Dirk learned to make reeds by visiting and studying with different uilleann pipe makers around the world, including Cillian O’Briain, David Quinn, Tim Britton, and Benedict Koehler.  Between playing the pipes in Colorado, and travelling all over, he now specializes in making … [Read more...] about Dirk Mewes

Louise Mulcahy

February 24, 2019 By Ken Fleming

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Born in Abbeyfeale, Co Limerick, Louise is a well-established performer and tutor on both flute and uilleann pipes. Louise has travelled extensively in both capacities, as both performer and teacher of the tradition, appearing at some of the biggest national and international music festivals throughout Asia, New Zealand, Australia, Europe, America and Canada. Louise released her highly … [Read more...] about Louise Mulcahy

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