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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...

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…)

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I think this may have been mentioned a while back,
http://irishboston.blogspot.com/2012/01 ... ts_17.html
great work Nick

Maybe this
https://myspace.com/jameskennapipes/videos
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Just discovered a great program about The Bonny Men on TG4 online, viewable here:
http://nasc.tg4.tv/1ayt7zV
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Cheers DjUntzUntz : )

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 ...

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...

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...

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.
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John M

“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...

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...

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

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

Thanks Rory

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...

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...