11/2 in NYC Loiuse Mulcahy performance with Oisín Mac Diarma

Uilleann Pipes
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For those who missed the opportunity to hear Loiuse Mulcahy in East Durham last weekend, she is an absolutly wonderful piper.

All the best.

Neil


Friday, November 2nd:
Oisín Mac Diarmada and Louise Mulcahy
A spectacular pairing of two red-hot Irish music talents. Sligoman Oisín is best known as the leader of Téada, a great band with a sound built on his own unique fiddle style, one that downplays fancy ornamentation in favor of quirkily off-beat bowing rhythms and inventive melodic variations. Louise, from the famed musical Mulcahy family of Abbeyfeale, County Limerick, is the leading female uilleann piper in Ireland and a fabulous flute and whistle player to boot.
Irish Traditional Music Concerts
at Glucksman Ireland House at New York UniversityALL SHOWS 9:00 P.M. - $15 ADMISSION
free to Ireland House members and NYU students with ID

GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE at NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
1 Washington Mews – entrance on Fifth Avenue just north of Washington Square
For more information, call Ireland House at at (212) 998-3950 www.nyu.edu/pages/irelandhouse

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Louise and Oisin are also scheduled to be performing at The Katharine Cornell Theater on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts on Saturday November 3rd.
http://www.kctconcerts.com
: )
John M

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This is what you can expect.

Louise is playing flute in this clip, and Oisin is playing some stringy thing.

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:boggle: :astonished: :boggle: WOW !

If she was the poster child for Uilleann Pipes: There would be a lot more new pipers !

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Yeah, no kidding. Look at that C Wooff set!

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Dude…you have been spending way too much time practicing.. :wink:

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Like so many top pipers ,she is now playing a Froment set !!

RORY

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Yes she plays a Fromment D set. But it is not a recently made set, so she has had it a while I think (the lower mount on the chanter looked like a vintage that was from a few years back I think), and she also plays the Woof C frequently. Her concert performance in East Durham at the NE Tional last weekend was all Woof.

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Apparently she has a chanter on order from Benedict Koehler.

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Like so many top pipers.

PD.

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Very funny …and yet so true…by the way Pat, do you own a Benedict chanter ???

:wink: :laughing:

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But of course :slight_smile: DQ/BK … Mother Superior to you bud! :laughing:

PD.

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so now you wanna be called Mother Superior? …i guess Mother wan’t enough?

:party:

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And wearing contacts…

Ian

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On account of the length of your habit, right? :wink:

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By the way, I just got my CD back – “Notes From the Heart” with Mick, Louise and Michelle Mulcahy – from the NE tionol.

Get it! It’s got some great tunes and the playing is first rate. Lovely.

http://www.copperplateconsultants.com/cicd160.html

I’m luck to have bought it at the tionol, I can’t find too many places to purchase it otherwise. Here’s an irish source:

http://www.cic.ie/product.asp?idproduct=958

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Now I KNOW I’m in good company. :slight_smile: Louise is my hero on both flute and pipes. I’ve worn out her tracks on both Mulcahys’ CDs; I can’t remember which set she does this on, but she’s flying along and suddenly she doubles the melody on the regulators and then throws in a bit of harmony … and makes it sound absolutely effortless.

She’s also a lovely person, as well, as is her entire family; some of the neatest folks I’ve ever had the privilege of meeting. They work incredibly hard, and deserve every blessing they get – hopefully there are many, many more good things in store for them.

Anyway, if you ever get the chance to hear her play in person, don’t miss it. She makes it look so easy it’s unbelievable.