The special guest is virtuoso piper Tiarnán O Duinnchinn, who is one of the great pipers to emerge from the world renowned Armagh Piper's Club http://www.tiarnan.ie/
There will be workshops in uilleann pipes for beginners/improvers at Manchester Town Hall during the day. Also reed making with Eamonn Curran.
The evening concert is at St Catherine's Catholic Club, School Lane, Didsbury, Manchester. Emma Sweeney (fiddle), Paul Callick (guitar) and Adele Farrell (accordion) will be performing in the first half of the concert. Emma was a finalist in the 2003 BBC Young Folk Awards. After the interval it will be solo piping from Tiarnán.
Visit the Northwest Uilleann Pipers' website for more info: http://www.nwup.org/
Manchester Tionól
The special guest is virtuoso piper Tiarnán O Duinnchinn, who is one of the great pipers to emerge from the world renowned Armagh Piper's Club http://www.tiarnan.ie/
There will be workshops in uilleann pipes for beginners/improvers at Manchester Town Hall during the day. Also reed making with Eamonn Curran.
The evening concert is at St Catherine's Catholic Club, School Lane, Didsbury, Manchester. Emma Sweeney (fiddle), Paul Callick (guitar) and Adele Farrell (accordion) will be performing in the first half of the concert. Emma was a finalist in the 2003 BBC Young Folk Awards. After the interval it will be solo piping from Tiarnán.
Visit the Northwest Uilleann Pipers' website for more info: http://www.nwup.org/
# Posted on December 6th 2008 by Fiddlebabe