Does anyone know where i can get his flute recordings, not those dancing stuff ???
For whom doesnt know who is he, like me yesterday:
And further, it would be really great if someone could help me find out how to play this tune 
Many thanksss !
The tune is Easter Snow. You should learn an air by ear- by listening to the music, rather than from the dots.
Several people play this air- including Matt Molloy, Seamus Tansey, and Paul McGrattan. It’s lovely and poses no technical challenges.
Flatley’s music, as heard on his CD, is very fast and fairly technical. He certainly has the chops and his tone is clear and compelling. His playing is admirable if perhaps not always moving.
Well I think he should avoid this useless synth. His flute playing is beautiful, though: very nice sound, even if I think he puts too much ornamentation… (I don’t like trills, too.)
DM posted that sometime ago, and talked about the boxwood Rudall.
It’s been a while since last time we had a Flatley-bashing thread 
um… i dont like too much trill too but i think it makes sense 'cause he is playing in dance show.
Thanks, i will try learning by ear. Not very familiar with me though 
I find learning airs by ear poses somewhat of a challenge because of the open tempo (rubato). Plus there are often dynamics, smears and manipulations of tonal color (when the air is played on a flute). However, learning airs by sheet music is even more difficult because the notation can look like a dog’s breakfast and is often less representative of how it’s actually played, compared to a jig or reel. But well worth it.
Flatley plays…well…flatly.
on reels he’s inspiring.
he learned from Kevin Henry…
and is close friends with Brendan McKinney, owner of Chief O’Neill’s pub in Chicago and himself a terrific flute player.
He was supposedly coming out with a new album with just flute playing…but i’ve not heard where this has progressed.
I have his first recording which he made as a young fellow. very tasty stuff on it.
dm
Tansey, Molloy, McGrattan … COOL, I’ve collected the Easter Snow set! 
But for some reason, synth pads and all, Paul McGrattan’s version is the one that makes me weep – I’d suggest you give it a listen, too (and here’s a plug for Kevin Krell … it’s actually on Wooden Flute Obsession, Vol. 1).
Anyway, I agree with all of the above. Listen to it a lot, get the basic shape of the tune, let it sink into your bones, and then start parsing the ornamentation.
Surely the tune is An Coolin, not Easter Snow.
I think that tune is called ‘An Cúlann’
Wow Tom We posted that reply at exactly the same moment.weird.
Definitely The Coolin, or in Irish spelling, An Cuilfhionn. No question.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1815
The Coolin, or An Cuilfhoinn is the one flatley plays as a solo. (Or at least his adaptation of it…)
I’d be interested if anyone knows the tunes that he and Molloy played as a duet on the late late show (There’s a clip of it on the Flatley “Gold” dvd)
John
Learning it by ear is the best way. I’m attempting to learn a Lunasa air that way right now.
And his album has been out of print for years, but copies occasionally surface here and there, usually on ebay where Flatheads drive the price beyond belief.
John
The original has been in re-release for a while, and retitled if you don’t care about that. I got mine for a standard price at a local Hibernalia shop. Lesl has it now, so if you want the new name of the issue, you might contact her; I’ve forgotten it, but I think it’s now simply called Michael Flatley.
That said, it may have been a limited re-release, but it wouldn’t hurt to check.
Oh, thanks! I didn’t know that.
No clue on the tune ID, huh? 
John
Nyuck.
Right - it is An Coolin. My apologies.
… and that’s what I get for not even going to look at the link. But hey, you should learn Easter Snow while you’re at it. It’s a great air, too. 
It does have a similar flavor to Easter Snow though.
All this trad stuff sounds the same anyway.
Then your taste is all in your mouth.