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6 5 9 20101217 9 REGULAR EVENTS WITH NA PIOBAIRI UILLEANN WEEKLY NPU PIPING & REED-MAKING CLASSES: Held weekly on Tuesday nights 7pm to 8pm and 8pm to 9pm. NPU RECITALS: Held on the first Tuesday of each month at 9:30pm The recitals for the next few months will be held on the following dates: January 4th – Padraig Keane (pipes), Fergus McGorman (flute), Vincent Campbell (fiddle) and Mick Quinn (songs & stories) February 1st – Pádraig McGovern (pipes), Connie O’Connell (fiddle), Donie Nolan (accordion & songs) and Paul Dooley (harp) NOTES & NARRATIVES: Held on the third Friday of each month at 8:30pm. LEO ROWSOME COMMEMORATIVE EVENT: Held annually on the last Saturday in February. The 2011 event will be on the 26th February. NPU Tionól: Held annually on the weekend before the last Monday of May, the 27th May in 2011. PIPING AND REED-MAKING MASTERCLASSES: Week-long classes are held during June, July and August each year. SCOIL SAMHRAIDH WILLIE CLANCY: Held annually on the first full calendar week in July. It always starts on the first Saturday of July, the 2nd of July in 2011. ACE & DEUCE OF PIPING CONCERT: Held annually on the first Saturday in October, the 2011 concert will take place on Saturday October 1st. BREANDAN BREATHNACH COMMEMORATION: Held annually on the first Saturday of December. The 2011 event will take place on Saturday, December 3rd. IMCO O ne hundred and fifty five additional tunes have been added to our IMCO (IRISH MUSIC COLLECTIONS ONLINE.) website section. They are the contents of a collection published by the famous music publisher Elias Howe in Boston in 1860 – Patrick O’Flanagan’s Hibernia Collection. Our thanks to Dave Hegarty who provided a copy of this collection for processing. The IMCO collections can be accessed through our new website SOURCE or directly online at: www.pipers.ie/IMCO TOMMY MCCARTHY T he Irish language station TG4 will be broadcasting a film of great interest to pipers on December 27th. Entitled Handing Down the Tunes, it is a programme focussing on the life and music of the piper Tommy McCarthy. The programme was produced by NPU Board member Ken Lynam, who also oversees the filming our our monthly Cobblestone Sessions. Members who were pres- ent at the Rowsome night this year will recall some material being filmed on that occasion. TG4 programmes are retained on their website for a period after the broadcast date. See http://beo.tg4.ie/

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