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01/11/10: Yesterday's Southern California Uilleann Pipers Club meeting was high-lighted by the arrival of Fel Bautista's new concert pitched set ::: more»
01/11/10: The 2010 St. Louis Tionól, April 16, 17 & 18. Guests include Tom Clarke, Michael Cooney, Benedict Koehler and Leo Rickard ::: more»
12/31/09: Happy New Year 2010 to everyone out there in uilleann piping land. May your reeds sing happily and your keys not stick all year long!
12/29/09: Michael Eskin has added to his 3QuarterSet app for iPhone and iPod Touch. There is now a 4QuarterSet which should be in iTunes by this evening. This version includes a bass regulator and some audio and graphical tweaks ::: more»
12/22/09: 2010 Westcoast Tionól February 12 -14, 2010. Special Guests will be Denis Brooks and Kevin Rowsome. Tom Creegan will also teach. John Pedersen and Aaron Setunsky will undertake the arduous weekend-long tasks of reed making, tweaking and pipe maintaining. You can register for the Tionol using this email address to make a payment on PayPal for $75 - piobairipaypal@irishpipersclub.org ::: more»
12/17/09: Peter Laban has unearthed a wonderful film clip of James Ennis (the father of Séamus) playing for some dancers ::: more»
12/14/09: The Comhaltas Traditional Music Archive is now online ::: more»
12/11/09: Broadcaster Ciarán Mac Mathúna has passes on ::: more»
12/08/09: I think we can all freely admit that old recordings of traditional Irish music are invaluable to today's player's and enthusiasts alike. This is especially true for pipers. Now there is a must have CD available which contains many of those old recordings, most of which haven't been heard for many years. Now we all can enjoy these pieces of music, previously only heard of in conversation and lore, thanks to the diligent work of Emmett Gill and Gerry Clarke. Oldtime Recordings Vol. 3 Piping Rarities - classic disks never previously issued on vinyl or CD! This is especially exciting for us pipers as this CD contains all uilleann piping! ::: more»
12/07/09: Na Píobairí Uilleann announced today: Irish Music Collections Online The IMCO (Irish Music Collections Online) facility was launched by Terry Moylan at the Breathnach Commemoration on Saturday 5th December.
It consists of modern interactive settings of tune and airs from music collections dating back to the early 18th century. Users can see the tune onscreen in staff notation, cna make it play, and can change the speed, key and pitch of the playback.
This new feature of our site is at www.pipers.ie/IMCO
12/07/09: 3QuarterSet, an uilleann pipes iPhone and iPod Touch app by Michael Eskin, is now available on iTunes ::: iTunes»
12/07/09: Pipemaker Joe Kennedy would like to let the piping community know that he has a new email address - unionpipemaker@yahoo.ie
11/30/09: Thanks to Marc Guilloux for notifying me that The French Uilleann Pipers Club is back online after a few years offline ::: more»
11/30/09: Drone Magic - 7th Annual San Francisco International Bagpipe Festival - Saturday, December 5, 2009, Croatian American Cultural Center, 60 Onondaga Ave. San Francisco, CA 94112 - $15 for entire Festival, 16 and under free ::: more»
11/18/09: Another photographic archive has surfaced online. This one is the Kennelly Archive. Some images of Willie Clancy among others appear there. Search for Fleadh, Listowel and Castleisland ::: more »
11/17/09: Fresh photos of the 2009 Southern California Tionól have been posted ::: more»
11/12/09: Photographs of the 2009 Southern California Tionól are now up on the website ::: more »
11/10/09: In August of 2008, Davis Watson sold his Volvo and bought a one-way ticket to Dublin to begin the early stages of research and filming, unaffiliated. This October, it's back to Ireland. Click here for an abstract of Mr. Watson's proposal - An Ancient Among Moderns. Mr. Watson is in the process of trying to raise funding to finish this documentary film. I would encourage you to please help him out in any way you can to help him finish this worthwhile project.
11/10/09: The 2009 Southern California Tionól went off without a hitch. Thanks to our guests Kevin Rowsome, Ivan Goff and Benedict Koehler. Also to Gabriel McKeagney, Larry Dunn, Michael O'Donovan and me.... if I don't thank myself no-one else will so :o) .... As well as all those that attended. It isn't possible without you all. Photos and tales will be popping up soon. Here's to next years event!
11/06/09: Pat & Cathy Sky have released a CD! It's called "Down to us..." and is available direct from Pat plsky@intrex.net or from Ossian USA.
10/30/09: At First Light now have a YouTube Channel. Very nice high quality video of a recent concert in Belfast is available there.
10/14/09: The old Scoiltrad classes are back on the Net. There are about 30 up now, perhaps more in the future but no plans as yet. They are reformatted as is the site. Classes are completely free to use but not to copy and re-distribute and there are no assessments or follow up stuff included ::: more»
08/23/09: Congratulations to Joey Abarta for winning 2nd place in Uilleann Piping at the All Ireland Contest at Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann 2009! ::: more»
08/20/09: The Arizona Uilleann Pipers Society have a new website ::: more»
08/14/09: Irish fiddle legend James Kelly has published a book of 101 compositions entitled "101 Original Tunes Composed by James Kelly" ::: more»
08/13/09: The South Wales Uilleann Pipers now have a website and a regular meeting place ::: more»
08/10/09: Dr. Brian Duggan has defveloped a very interesting and useful website named "Tunepal". You can play a tune into the site, it will then analyze the notes from its collection of 11,000 ABC files ::: more»
08/04/09: Take a guided tour through 15 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1 - the headquarters of Na Píobairí Uilleann ::: more»
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