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Snoop around for all the latest uilleann piping news and information.
If you would like to learn more about the uilleann pipes (pronounced: illan) then the f.a.q. section is a good place to start. The rest of you know what you're up to... welcome back :)
07/19/10: Jerry O'Sullivan jsut launched his new website. It is conveniently located at the same URL as his previous one: jerryosullivan.com
07/06/10: There was a recent interview with Jerry O'Sullivan in the Piper's review (May edition). Jim Reilly has put it up on the Hudson River Pipers Club website for all to enjoy. Jerry is ready to release his Volume II of "O’Sullivan Meets O’Farrell" during the Celtic Irish Arts Week in East Durham in a few weeks. He's in Miltown Malbay right now as a guest performer. Jim also has a new website ready to go to correspond with the CD release.
07/06/10: The Summer School at Milwaukee Irish Fest are offering an uilleann pipes workshop taught by Francis McPeake IV. It's a two-hour class on Friday, August 20th ::: more»
06/15/10: The Southern California Tionól 2010 will take place over the weekend of November 5, 6 & 7. Our guests this year will be Tom Creegan, Eamonn Dillon, Benedict Koehler & David Quinn. Events will take place at The McKeagney residence in San Juan Capistrano ::: more»
05/05/10: An article about piper, pipemaker and folklorist Patrick Sky appeared in the Berkley Fine Arts magazine recently. At one point they even mention our club the SCUPC! ::: more»
04/20/10: I just wanted to help spread the word about Oz Whistles. Ted Anderson up in the Bay Area has been flaunting one for a couple of years now and it has always received incredible reviews. I just found one second hand and can firmly state that this is a great whistle. If you are in the market for a high end whistle these can not be beat. ::: more»
04/20/10: The MP3 store, Snocap, I had on this site has gone out of business. If anyone would like to buy a CD of my music please email me. Thanks! ::: email»
04/19/10: Michael Eskin is at it again ::: more»
04/13/10: A very nice programme on the life of Séamus Ennis was aired last night on RTE. You can watch it for a week or so at the following location ::: more»
04/12/10: Another good monthly meeting yesterday of the S.C.U.P.C. This month we were glad to see a couple of new faces ::: more»
04/12/10: A hearty congratulations to Seán McKiernan on receiving the TG4 Gradam Cheoil. Here is a link to the video, Seán's segment starts at 14:30 approximately ::: more»
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03/30/10: The Great Northern - Irish Pipers' Club Tionól will take place this year from May 14th to 16th, 2010. Guests include Ivan Goff, Skip Cleavinger and Dáithí Sproule ::: more»
03/30/10: David Quinn has sent me some photos of a beautiful new C set he has completed ::: more»
03/29/10: Bruce Foley has submitted his bio to the Piper Bios page ::: more»
03/29/10: The annual Northeast Irish Pipers' Tionól will be held this year in the Catskills town of East Durham, New York, from 22-25 October. Held on the comfortable grounds of Gavins' Resort, this year's instructors include Gay McKeon, Tiarnan Ó Duinnchinn, Eamonn Dillon, Cillian Vallely, Benedict Koehler and Kara Doyle. Our fiddle instructors are Patrick Ourceau and Rose Conway Flanagan. The tionól will include classes throughout the weekend, workshops in specific areas of interest, reedmaking, an instructors' concert and the Piper's Chair—an opportunity for any registrants to play for their peers and instructors in an informal setting. For more information, please visit our website at ::: more»
03/17/10: Lord bless us and save us! ::: some» & more»
03/05/10: Southern California Uilleann PIpers Club member Steve Pribyl has assembled a great troubleshooting page specific to reeds Uilleann Pipes Reed Adjustment Compendium ::: more»
02/23/10: Piper Michael Cooney has released an excellent solo CD entitled "Just Piping". It is available now on CD Baby ::: more»
02/04/10: Patrick Hutchinson and Jim Ediger have made a very nice CD of pipes and fiddle. It is only available directly from Pat via email. Lovely tunes here and a very easy going pace ::: Patrick_Hutchinson@brown.edu »
01/27/10: An interesting article from the Irish Times entitled "Piping up for the Pale" which discusses the Temple Bar TradFest and a photographic exhibition, by Mick O’Connor, that is to be held there called "Traditional Music in Dublin" ::: more»
01/25/10: Koehler & Quinn have just completed a new set of incredible detail and beauty. Photos are now added to their page ::: more»
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 developed 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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