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7 5 6 20111214 6 MIKE RAFFERTY P AUL KEATING reports the sad news of the death of piper and flute-player Mike Rafferty, at the age of 84, on September 13, 2011. Born on September 27, 1926 to the late Thomas and Kathleen Rafferty, Mike grew up in Balli- nakill, East Galway, Ireland. In 1949, he emi- grated to the United States where he married and raised a family. An outstanding proponent of the East Galway style of flute playing, he devoted more time to teaching and playing music when he retired in 1989 from Grand Union in Carlstadt. He ap- peared on many recordings and has recorded al- bums with his daughter Mary. A member of the Bergen County Irish Associ- ation and the Mike Rafferty-Joe Madden C.C.É. Céilí Branch in Bogota, NJ. In 2003, Mike was named Irish Echo’s Traditional Mu- sician of the Year. In September 2010, he re- ceived the NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award in Washington D.C. He is a National Treasure to the United States Government. Photograph by Paul Wells NPU-TV F OLLOWING on the success of our Live Video Stream during INTERNATIONAL UILLEANN PIP- ING DAY, we plan to stream future events on a new NPU-TV service which will be broadcast on the following link: http://www.pipers.ie/home/_NPUTV.htm Saturday December 3rd 2011 @ 19:30GMT BREANDÁN BREATHNACH COMMEMORATIVE LECTURE Nicholas Carolan: The ‘Union Pipes’ – Their Birth and Death Saturday December 3rd 2011 @ 21:30GMT BREANDÁN BREATHNACH COMMEMORATION Piping Recital with Mick Coyne, Eoin Kenny & Ruairí Somers The above will be broadcast on a Free To Air basis. We also hope to broadcast other events such as our regular monthly SESSION WITH THE PIPERS recital on a Pay Per View basis. The performances are being streamed at a low res- olution initially, in order to avoid the problem of picture freezing and to ensure un-interrupted re- ception. The audio quality is not seriously impar- ied by this. In the future we plan to improve the video resolution. WEBSITE STATISTICS T HE FOLLOWING figures show the traffic on our SOURCE website in the year since its inception: Total Views . . . . . . . . . .1,136,267 Tutor Videos Views . . . . . .54,022 Recitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303,669 IMCO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130,542 Pipemaking . . . . . . . . . . . .50,402 Reedmaking . . . . . . . . . . . .35,506 Most viewed video : Máire Ní Ghráda (Pipes) and Pat Aherne (Guitar) at the Cobblestone 01- 06-2010 - Jigs - The Kerfunken / The Lark in the Morning – 2463 Views.

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