The 12th William Kennedy Piping Festival will open with a concert by The Chieftains. This concert will be part of a special tour to celebrate the life and music of the late Derek Bell and will feature special guests Tríona Marshall (harp), Yvonne McMahon (songs) and John and Nathan Pilatski (fiddle and dance) from the Ottawa Valley in Canada.
Tickets are £15 and £12 concession available from the hotel: +44 (0)28 37518888.
Highland Pipe Band Concert with The Scottish Power Pipe Band and Ballinderry Bridge Pipe Band
Lecture concerning the origins and development of the Pastoral and Union Pipes, which are relatively well-represented in all collections, museum and conservatoire, but difficult to trace in the ‘narrative', if not completely absent from the Scottish narrative.
The Festival is indebted to the Board of Governors of the Robinson Library in presenting this lecture. Tickets £3 (includes light refreshments) available from the Robinson Library (028 37524177) and Armagh Pipers Club.
Lunchtime session in the Stage Bar & Restaurant @ Market Place Theatre, Armagh, featuring Archè, Olle Gällmo & Petko Stefanov.
Concert with:
Na Tri Seudan (Scottish group formed by Hamish Moore featuring Allan MacDonald, Fin Moore, Angus MacKenzie, Gary West, Iain MacInnes, Calum MacCrimmon, Donal Brown & Lee Moore),
Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn (uilleann pipes) & Gerry O'Connor (fiddle),
Srúth na Maoile (singing group from the Armagh Pipers Club)
In 2003, Barnaby Brown moved from Scotland to Sardinia in order to immerse himself in the launeddas tradition. Working with Luigi Lai's instrument maker, inspired by the 9th-century carvings at Clonmacnois and Monasterboice, guided by the early Highland pibroch manuscripts, he has developed a family of triplepipes appropriate for Irish music. In this lecture-recital, he explains his approach to composition for the pipes that pre-date bagpipes.
Tickets £3 (includes light refreshments) available from Armagh County Museum (028 37523070) & Armagh Pipers Club.
The Festival Committee acknowledges the support of the Armagh Philosophical Society in presenting this lecture.
Lunchtime session in the Stage Bar & Restaurant @ Market Place Theatre with Simon McKerrell, Rory Campbell and members of Na Tri Seudan.
BBC Radio Ulster's arts extra and BLAS programmes broadcast live from the Market Place Theatre in Armagh on Friday 18 November 2005, from 6.30pm to 7.30pm. The show will celebrate the extraordinary life of William Kennedy with live music and chat. There will also be a preview of the World Piping Concerts,a taste of the late night festival club and a cd release from At First Light.
World Piping Concert with:
At First Light (featuring John McSherry on uilleann pipes, Dónal O'Connor on fiddle, Tony Byrne on guitar and Francis McIlduff on bodhrán and uilleann pipes),
Archè (Italian group featuring Pietro Ricci on zampogna, Gianni Perilli on ciaramella, Ernest Caracillo on accordion and Antonello Iannotta on percussion),
Olle Gällmo (Swedish säckpipa),
James O'Grady (uilleann pipes),
Rory Campbell (border pipes)
Session in Turners Bar at the Charlemont Arms Hotel with Leonard Barry (uilleann pipes), Derek Hickey (accordion) & Paul Meehan (guitar).
Late night club with music from Breabach (Calum MacCrimmon, Donal Brown, Patsy Reid & Ewan Robertson), Buille (Niall & Caoimhín Vallely & Paul Meehan), Blunderbrau (Dónall Mac Ruairí, Joe Óg Mac Grianna & Nioclás Mac Cathmhaoil), Barry Kerr, Laura Kerr & Martin Meehan, and Leo McCann.
Uilleann pipes (Intermediate to Advanced only) with James O'Grady, Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn, Eamonn Curran, Jarlath Henderson, Feargal French & Leonard Barry
Uilleann pipes reed making with Mickey Dunne
Highland & Border pipes with Simon McKerrell & Rory Campbell
Fiddle with Donal O'Connor & Patsy Reid
Accordion with Derek Hickey & Christy Leahy
Guitar accompaniment with Ewan Robertson & Tony Byrne
Singing (English, Irish and Scots Gaelic) with Brian Mullen & Allan MacDonald
Scottish Step dancing with Donal Brown
There are also classes open to all instrumentalists in the music of Asturias, Italy, Bulgaria and Sweden.
Model Making Classes with Linda McCann in Armagh City Hotel. Admission Free but places limited. Email: info@wkpf.org or Tel: 028 37511248.
Very little of the language of Ireland's long and impressive Bronze Age survived into Iron Age Celtic during the centuries of overlap between the two ages, around the middle of the first millennium BC. However thanks to the work of Simon O'Dwyer we can now experience some of the sounds of that period and the long silence of over 2000 years has been broken.
Lunchtime session in the Stage Bar & Restaurant @ The Market place Theatre with Barry Kerr (uilleann pipes, flute) & Lára Kerr (fiddle), Martin Meehan (flute) and Leo McCann (accordion)
Solo Highland Piping Concert with Roddy MacLeod, Rory Campbell, Andrew Carlisle, Ross Ainslie, Simon McKerrell, Brendan Murphy
Concert with:
The Jarlath Henderson & Ross Ainslie Band (featuring Jarlath Henderson (uilleann pipes & whistles), Ross Ainslie (border pipes & whistles), Rohan Young (bodhrán), Ali Hutton (guitar) and Duncan Lyall (bass)). Also launch of their debut CD,
Breabach (Scottish group featuring Calum MacCrimmon (highland pipes & whistles), Donal Brown (highland pipes, whistles & step dancing), Patsy Reid (fiddle) & Ewan Robertson (guitar)),
Martin McCormack (uilleann pipes) & Seán McElwaine (bouzouki),
Éanna Ó Cróinín (uilleann pipes)
Concert with Cruit is Píob in the Stage Bar & Restaurant @ The Market place Theatre.
World Piping Concert with:
Marzoug (9 piece Algerian group featuring Jelloul Soudani on chekwa),
Tejedor (from Asturias featuring Jose Manuel Tejedor on gaita, Javier Tejedor on accordion, Eva Tejedor on vocals and percussion and Paul Meehan on guitar),
Petko Stefanov (Bulgarian gaida),
Mickey Dunne (uilleann pipes),
Simon McKerrell (highland pipes)
Session in Turner's Bar at the Charlemont Arms Hotel with Martin Meehan (flute), Sorcha Meehan (fiddle) & Aidan Prunty (flute)
Late night club with music by The Jarlath Henderson & Ross Ainslie Band; Na Tri Seudan; Martin McCormack & Seán McElwaine; Christy Leahy & Friends; James & Ciarán O'Grady; and Leonard Barry, Derek Hickey & Paul Meehan.
Model Making Classes with Linda McCann in Armagh City Hotel. Admission Free but places limited. Email: info@wkpf.org or Tel: 028 37511248.
Uilleann Piping Concert with Mickey Dunne, James O'Grady, John McSherry & Francis McIlduff, Eamonn Curran, Feargal French, Leonard Barry, Sinéad Lennon
