Emer Mayock

Irish Flute
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I stumbled upon this lady (not literally!) the other day and find her to be the first flutist to intrigue me in some years. She also plays fiddle, uillean pipes and more. She composes most of the material she plays and I think she’s quite something, but I’ve never before heard of her. Some well-kept secret or not pure-drop enough for the folks hereabouts?

I especially like her recording, Merry Bits of Timber.

http://www.celticdownloads.com/www/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=6&products_id=132

http://www.emermayock.com/

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you don’t remember this?

https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/irish-flute-recordings/1286/8

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I remember the thread, but I guess she was not isolated enough for me to take sufficient notice. So I finally caught up!

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Emer Mayock, with Jean-Michel Veillon : Grand National Runners 2025 (Full List of Horses & Riders) . :thumbsup:

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Wow! Kind of like Fluter’s New Year’s Eve, what?

They complement each other well, but I like best when they solo within a set.

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Emer was scheduled to teach at Boxwood Festival in Nova Scotia this past summer, along with Sylvain Barou. She had to cancel at the last minute for health reasons. Adrianne Greenbaum stepped in to teach klezmer flute and for the first time in my years at Boxwood, we did not have a flute teacher from Ireland. Sylvain was wonderful, however, and Adrianne as effervescent as ever! There are hopes to have Emer come in 2012.

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You should also get her other solo album, “Playground”. BTW, she used to play in Afro Celt Sound System (pipes, flute, whistle).

Quoting her bio from Boxwood (site is down, but I have it cached):

Emer Mayock is a musician and composer from Co. Mayo. She began to play traditional music during her childhood on a range of instruments including the Flute, Low Whistles, Fiddle and Uilleann Pipes. She has produced two CDs: ‘Merry Bits of Timber’ in 1996 and ‘Playground’ in 2001- the latter continuing her interest in writing new music and containing mostly her own compositions. Emer’s love of the Flute in particular has lead her to bring it to centre stage on her recordings and at live concerts.
She has worked with among others, traditional musicians Donal Lunny, Paddy Glackin, the late Michael 0’ Domhnaill, Cormac Breathnach, Flook!, Grada, harmonica player Mick Kinsella, guitarist John Doyle, singer Damien Dempsey, jazz musician Michael Buckley, French music producer Hughes de Courson, Breton harpist Alan Stivell, The Irish Chamber Choir, Italian baroque ensemble il Giardino Armonico (with whom she recorded a cd of Vivaldi’s music), Greek singer Eleftheria Arvanitaki and the Grammy nominated Afro Celts.

In recent times Emer has continued to travel widely both with her own music and as a collaborative musician including concerts in China where she performed a new work by Chinese composer Jia Daqun and in Ireland collaborating with British musician Nitin Sawhney and the Dhoad Gypsies of Rajasthan for The Festival of World Cultures, Dun Laoghaire. Emer has written and recorded arrangements for traditional and Jazz musicians as part of radio producer Gerry Godley’s ‘Translations’ programmme on RTE Radio One and has also had the pleasure of presenting a nine-week series on Radio One entitled ‘The Wider Embrace’, a non genre-specific program exploring music from a range of diverse sources. In the past few years other highlights have included concerts with legendary Sligo musician Peter Horan and a concert series in the USA. Emer composed the music for ‘Winter Pictures’, a play for children which has toured Wales and completed a run at The Ark in Dubln and Glor Irish Music Centre, Ennis, a series of highly successful concerts throughout Ireland with Breton musician Jean-Michel Veillon, a new collaboration with jazz musicians Francesco Turrisi (Piano, Accordion, Percussion), Nick Roth (Saxophone), Cellist Kate Ellis and Percussionist Robbie Harris. The band known as Tarab has emerged from this collaboration where the repertoire includes many of Emer’s compositions as well as traditional music from Ireland, Turkey, North Africa, Bulgaria and the Middle East. Emer is currently working with Uilleann Piper Mick O’Brien and Fiddle player Aoife O’Brien exploring and recording tunes from the Goodman Manuscripts collected in Munster in the 1880s.

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thanks; i switched computers and lost my old bookmarks–i was looking for this. :wink:

Cheers,
eric