Kennedy piping festival
By Joe Mullarkey
The kennedy piping festival commencing on November 15-19 in Armagh City
celebrates the blind piper William Kennedy who was born near Banbridge
in 1768.
There is a full range of workshops available in the following instruments:
Uilleann pipes, Highland pipes, Border pipes, small pipes, Northumbrian
pipes, fiddle, flute, concertina, bodhrán, banjo, guitar, bouzouki,
Uilleann pipe reed making/maintenance, and flute maintenance.
Highlights are:
A Night of Highland Piping with The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland;
The Killeen Pipe Band; Dougie Pincock; Anna Murray; and members of the
Armagh Pipers Club, 7.30pm, Thursday, November 16, venue: Armagh City
Hotel. Tickets: £12/£9
World Piping Concert with Liam O’Flynn and the Pipers Call Band;
Ensemble Shanbehzadeh (Iran); Michael McGoldrick with John Joe Kelly and
Ed Boyd; and The Anxo Lorenzo Band (Galicia). 7.30pm, Friday, November
17, venue: Market Place Theatre. Tickets: £13/£10 or online
at www.marketplacearmagh.com.
Armagh Pipers Club 40th Anniversary Concert with Lúnasa; Flook; Buille;
The Armagh Rhymers; Jarlath Henderson; Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn;
Thomas Smith; Barry Kerr; Martin Meehan; Patricia Vallely; Fintan Vallely;
and Tommy Sands as MC, 7.30pm, Saturday, November 18, venue: Market Place
Theatre. Tickets: £12/£9.
Uilleann Pipes Concert with Robbie Hannan and Dermot McLaughlin; Cillian
Vallely with Kevin Crawford and Paul Meehan; Jimmy O’Brien-Moran;
Brendan Ring with Gerry McKee and Frank Torpey; Barry Kerr; and Sean McKeon
with Liam O’Connor, 7pm. Sunday, November 19, venue: Market Place
Theatre. Tickets: £9/£6. There is also a series of free concerts
and sessions over the week. Details from website www.wkpf.org
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