Na Píobairí Uilleann

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8 5 6 20121206 6 IMCO T HE LATEST ADDITION to our Irish Music Col- lections Online (IMCO) website is Patrick Weston Joyce’s Ancient Irish Music, published in 1873. This can be accessed at our online resource www.pipers.ie/IMCO The sub-title of the work – “One hundred Irish airs hitherto unpublished; many of the old popu- lar songs; and several new songs” – gives a good idea of the random nature of the content and the ‘stamp-collector’ attitude of the time. REGULAR EVENTS WITH NA PÍOBAIRÍ UILLEANN WEEKLY NPU PIPING & REED-MAKING CLASSES: Held weekly during the months Sep- tember to May on Tuesday nights. Classes start each hour from 5pm to 8pm. NPU RECITALS: Held on the first Tuesday of each month at 9:30pm Jan 1st – Leonard Barry (pipes), Michelle O’Brien (fiddle), Conor McEvoy (fiddle) and Graham Guerin (accordion) Feb 5th – Joe Finn (pipes), Dermot McLaughlin (fiddle), Foriane Blancke (harp) and Dermot Byrne (accordion) Mar 5th – Ronan Sweeney (pipes), Tadhg Mulligan (fiddle), Caitlín Nic Gab- hann (concertina) and Tommy Fitzharris (flute) NOTES & NARRATIVES: Held on the third Friday of each month at 8:30pm. Dec 14th – Jerry O’Reilly : "There Was A Lord Who Lived In This Town", early clas- sic ballads in the Irish song tradition. Mar 15th – Caitríona Rowsome : A Perspective on the Legacy of Turlough Carolan LEO ROWSOME COMMEMORATIVE EVENT: Held annually on the last Saturday in Febru- ary. The 2013 event will take place on the 23rd of February. NPU TIONÓL: Held annually on the weekend before the last Monday of May, in 2013 the weekend of May 24th to 26th. ADVANCED REED-MAKING CLASSES: Classes are held each summer. In 2013 each class will consist of three full days, starting on 17th June, 22nd July and 29th August. SCOIL SAMHRAIDH WILLIE CLANCY: Held annually on the first full calendar week in July. It always starts on the first Saturday of July, the 6th of July in 2013. ACE & DEUCE OF PIPING CONCERT: Held annually on the first weekend in October, the 2013 concert will take place on Saturday October 5th. INTERNATIONAL UILLEANN PIPING DAY: Now an annual event, next year’s global day of uilleann piping will take place on Saturday 19 October. BREANDÁN BREATHNACH COMMEMORATION: Held annually on the first Saturday of De- cember. The 2013 event will take place on Saturday, December 7th. GHOST ‘D’ HEARD IN KERRY A N ARTICLE in The Irish Times on April 17 reported the unusual phenomenon of a “humming noise”, pitched at E flat, which was heard over a wide area of Kerry for a number of weeks. The sound had been reported from Tralee, Moll’s Gap, Kilgarvan and Sneem, and was most noticeable at night. It seems that “the days of the Kerry dances” have returned, and the sound is none other than the “ring of the piper’s tune”.

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