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Up Against the Flatirons album Launch at Na Píobairí Uilleann

Friday, May 25, 2007

This weekend was NPU’s 40th Annual Tionol, the weekend I was to launch the new album at the Club in Dublin.

I took the train from Limerick in the Heuston Station. I stepped off in Dublin and who else did I see, but Mick O’Conor. Mick was there to pick up Peadar O’Loughlin for the

Die Deutsche Uilleann Pipe Gesellschaft Tionol

Sunday, April 8, 2007

A gracious recommendation from Catherine McEvoy and I was on the phone with Ingeborg Schrewentigges, president of the Deutsche Uilleann Pipe Gesellschaft. We spoke briefly about the tionol the evening before Kate, my dad and I were to fly over to Amsterdam.

Two months later, on Thursday, April 5,

New Album of Solo Piping...coming in May 2007

Thursday, March 22, 2007

In October 2006, Gay McKeon broached me with a commission to produce a solo recording of my own playing for the NPU catalogue. I immediately accepted this invitation and am now in the final stages of the project.

I had the fortune to work with recording engineer extraordinaire, Sean Keegan, the

Playin’ Finnan Haddie!

Saturday, March 17, 2007

This evening was the first of two performances I was contracted to play with the Oregon Chorale. The concert idea itself started one year ago almost to the day when Bernie Kuehn, conductor and founder of the chorale, attended my wedding to Kate with his lovely wife Karen. I was playing a few

Scoping out Eugene

Saturday, March 3, 2007

Fresh off the plane 24 hours prior, I found myself on the morning of Friday, March 2nd driving down to Eugene. My aim was to meet the music faculty at the University of Oregon and make a final decision as to whether or not to attend the college. I received my acceptance letter to the music school