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by juanito
Fri Oct 09, 2015 1:38 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Going to Boston this weekend
Replies: 11
Views: 3061

Re: Going to Boston this weekend

Piper Mickey Dunne is playing a benefit concert for the Michael Dunleavy Foundation http://www.michaeldunleavy.com/ this evening (Friday) at The Burren in Somerville, MA (just outside Boston) http://www.burren.com/ Playing with Mickey are Ollie O’Connell from Doolin, Co. Clare, Mike Nestor, and John...
by juanito
Thu Dec 04, 2014 6:41 am
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: The Henebry / O’Neill Wax Cylinder Collection
Replies: 1
Views: 803

The Henebry / O’Neill Wax Cylinder Collection

The Henebry / O’Neill Wax Cylinder Collection featuring Patsy Touhey is available online:
http://www.music.ucc.ie/henebry/
(I could not find that this had been posted before, sorry if it has…)

: )
by juanito
Tue Jul 22, 2014 8:54 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Pat Touhey - two new articles about his career
Replies: 7
Views: 2263

Re: Pat Touhey - two new articles about his career

I think this may have been mentioned a while back,
http://irishboston.blogspot.com/2012/01 ... ts_17.html
great work Nick
by juanito
Tue Dec 31, 2013 2:48 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Elder Drone Reeds.
Replies: 60
Views: 13147

Re: Elder Drone Reeds.

by juanito
Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:01 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Groups Similar to Planxty and Bothy Band
Replies: 42
Views: 8427

Re: Groups Similar to Planxty and Bothy Band

Just discovered a great program about The Bonny Men on TG4 online, viewable here:
http://nasc.tg4.tv/1ayt7zV
: )
by juanito
Sun Sep 22, 2013 11:38 am
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Silly Question?
Replies: 14
Views: 3200

Re: Silly Question?

Cheers DjUntzUntz : )
by juanito
Sun Sep 22, 2013 10:12 am
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Silly Question?
Replies: 14
Views: 3200

Silly Question?

Just finished watching an episode of the program Coppers and Brass (great schtuff) here: http://vimeo.com/74838389 About 15 min. in there is some footage of Martin Nolan playing with some lads in the Cobblestone. Martin’s chanter top looks like it has a pin similar to a tuning pin of a regulator. I ...
by juanito
Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:23 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Wooff set for 230 Sterling?
Replies: 13
Views: 1579

Re: Wooff set for 230 Sterling?

Hi folks, I am the owner of the Woof half-set that was auctioned on Ebay about a year ago from Florida and am not re-selling it. I can’t remember all the spec’s of the original ebay posting but this posting does seem suspiciously similar as I did receive with the set hand written correspondences con...
by juanito
Sat Dec 03, 2011 1:39 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: 12/3 NPU TV
Replies: 2
Views: 830

12/3 NPU TV

Coming Up on NPU-TV Saturday December 3rd 2011 @ 19:30GMT Breandán Breathnach Commemoration Lecture - Nicholas Carolan: The ‘Union Pipes’ – Their Birth and Death Saturday December 3rd 2011 @ 21:30GMT Breandán Breathnach Commemoration Piping Recital with Mick Coyne Eoin Kenny Ruairí Somers http://pip...
by juanito
Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:20 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Come West Along The Road 3
Replies: 3
Views: 1133

Re: Come West Along The Road 3

The piper in the Fleadh Cheoil from 1963 segment is Sean Seery playing Spailpín a rún, there is also a great track from Sean Seery’s playing on the RTE CD “Tuning the Radio”,
these programs are a treat.
: )
John M
by juanito
Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:05 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Séamus Ennis's Old Bag
Replies: 31
Views: 5131

Re: Séamus Ennis's Old Bag

“Does Pat Sky, or any other folk, know what the message was in the design on that bag?” Hello, This topic got me thinking about the story of the “Piping Pig" http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb354/juanit01/PipingPig2.jpg that Seamus Ennis had somewhere on his set, after re-examining my L.P c...
by juanito
Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:23 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: ITMA
Replies: 0
Views: 667

ITMA

Hello, Some tasty Tommy Reck and Felix Doran tracks (among many tasty others) have been added August 1st (from the Dr. O’Beirne Tape Collection) to The Irish Traditional Music Archive’s Digitized Materials online. Thanks to the ITMA for making this available to us folks on the other side of the pudd...
by juanito
Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:37 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: O Bheal Go Beal ,The bicycle diaries
Replies: 5
Views: 1334

Re: O Bheal Go Beal ,The bicycle diaries

"Anyone found a way to watch this in the States?"

http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1070573

Thanks Rory :thumbsup:
by juanito
Mon May 18, 2009 8:08 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: John Rooney
Replies: 9
Views: 3095

Re: John Rooney

Hello, The ‘Traveller Piper’ is a great DVD. You can find more John Rooney playing a quick blast of tunes on The “First Traveller” DVD with Larry Rooney, http://www.e-shop.grtleeds.co.uk/ On the “Travellers and Fellow Travellers” CD he is featured playing Cregg’s Pipes. http://www.paveepoint.ie/publ...
by juanito
Sun May 03, 2009 11:01 am
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Piper Bernie O’Donovan?
Replies: 10
Views: 2307

Piper Bernie O’Donovan?

Hello, I was fool’n around on the National Library of Ireland’s website and came across this, http://kildarest.nli.ie/npa/pi/pwp1316.htm I’ve never seen this photo before. The young man in the photo looked a little familiar so I searched Pat D’arcy’s Uilleann Obsession site and came up with this htt...