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Up Against the Flatirons album Launch at Na Píobairí Uilleann

Fri, 25 May 2007 10:10:51 -0700

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 a

Die Deutsche Uilleann Pipe Gesellschaft Tionol

Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:46:44 -0700

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, K

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

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:54:21 -0700

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 dir

Playin’ Finnan Haddie!

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:06:21 -0700

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 traditi

Scoping out Eugene

Sat, 3 Mar 2007 01:20:53 -0800

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 in