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Attention beginner pipers! This year Gŵyl Uilleann Glanyfferi - Ferryside Uilleann Pipes Festival will offer two levels of workshops for beginners, each taught by stalwarts of uilleann piping in Wales. Our beginners workshops will be taught by the brilliant Jason Rouse. We will also offer a special ...

Some updates on our line of of guests for Gŵyl Uilleann Glanyfferi - Ferryside Uilleann Pipes Festival 2024. Pipemaker Chris Coe will join us as our in-house pipe maintenance guru. Also our North Wales Co-chair Jon Turton will be giving a session on the playing of airs, fresh off his success at the ...

On International Uilleann Piping Day we are very pleased to announce the line up for Gŵyl Uilleann Glanyfferi - Ferryside Uilleann Pipes Festival 2024. We are excited to be welcoming Ronan Browne, Pádraic Keane and Jason Rouse to Ferryside from 17-19 May 2024, along with a roster of other brilliant ...

Just a reminder that reduced rate early registration of £69 for the weekend is available until the end of April. From May 1st it is £79. Contact me here or via the website www.uilleannfestival.wales

So what’s the plan for Gŵyl Uilleann Glanyfferi - Ferryside Uilleann Pipes Festival? Let’s go down the list… ✓ Uilleann Pipes Classes at all levels with Néillidh Mulligan, Jarlath Henderson & Rita Farrell ✓ Irish fiddle workshop with James Carty ✓ Tunes of South West Wales workshop with Ceri Rhy...

At last our line up for the tionol is final. We've had a couple of changes along the way due to some unforseen scheduling issues, but the final list of teachers and performers is: Néillidh Mulligan - uilleann pipes Jarlath Henderson - uilleann pipes Rita Farrell - uilleann pipes James Carty - fiddle...

Registration details for the tionol Early Bird Registration (before 30 April)* Adult early registration- £69 Under 18 early registration - £39 Full Registration (from 1 May) Adult full registration (from 1 May) - £79 Under 18 full registration - £49 Registration includes access to all events and cla...

One from me. One of my favourite jigs from the Goodman Collection, called Lady Hynes. Played on a ‘John’ Egan set (c. 1760) with a brilliant new chanter by Sam Lawrence.

https://youtu.be/Pa1J--l4z7Q

The new Festival website is now live with details on weekend schedule, guest bios, registration fees and advice on travel/accomodations.

www.UilleannFestival.wales

More good news! We are pleased to announce that the brilliant piper and flute player Claire Fennell from Co Waterford will also be joining us for the festival. Claire will be performing in our opening concert as well as teaching an introduction to tin whistle class for local children. Our other fest...

I'm hoping to find a Chris Langan uilleann pipes chanter. Please drop me a PM if you have one you’d consider selling. I’m looking for both personal and musical reasons. My original teacher back home in Toronto learned her piping from Chris, so I’ve always wanted to own one of his chanters to play. C...

Hello pipers I'm hoping to find a Chris Langan chanter. Please drop me a PM if you have one you’d consider selling. I’m looking for one for both personal and musical reasons. My original teacher back home in Toronto learned her piping from Chris, so I’ve always wanted to own one of his chanters to p...

Just a brief announcement to mark your diaries for the first tionol in West Wales. Gŵyr Uilleann Glanyfferi (Ferryside Uilleann Pipes Festival) will be held in the historic seaside village of Ferryside in beautiful West Wales from 12th-14th May 2023. Join us for a weekend of traditional Irish and We...

Pibyddion Uilleann Cymru is pleased to announce our event for International Uilleann Piping Day at the Volcano Theatre in Swansea on Saturday 5 November from 12-3pm. We will begin with a free concert followed by a choice of workshops on either uilleann pipes or Welsh repertoire for a fee of £10. The...

Thanks. Other than the chanter I think the restoration should be pretty straight forward. The new bass drone slide is the main fabrication needed. Other than that it needs a new bag and reg reeds. The set has old drone reeds in the tenor and bari (50 years old at least. Potentially original?) which ...