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6 5 21 20101217 21 WILLIAM KENNEDY PIPING FESTIVAL A fter what has been described as the best WILLIAM KENNEDY PIPING FESTIVAL ever and the best piping festi- val in the world it’s difficult to single out just one or two performances from the wealth of musical highs that continued day after day from Thursday 11th November right up to Sunday 14th. It all began with the ‘Canntaireachd’ and ‘Julie Fowlis / Eamonn Doorley’ performances at the Piping Connections concert on Thursday 11th and only concluded 4 days later with Sunday night’s amazing finale session in the Armagh City Hotel, where pipers of 20 coun- tries met and bounced around tunes of every cultural hue imaginable to create an extraordi- nary ambience of past, present and future direc- tions to come in piping. This was the sort of spontaneous musical out- burst that only happens at the William Kennedy Piping Festival – this year it exceed- ed all expectations and has left an indelible impression on all those lucky enough to have been present on Sunday night 14th November 2010. The 17th century Irish bard and harper Turlough O’Carolan wrote about what sound- ed like a similar event 300 years ago starting with the great line. O’Rourke’s noble feast will ne’er be forgot by those who were there and those who were not Certainly the final session left one young American piper saying he never wanted to go back to the States! View of the art exhibition held as part of the William Kennedy Piping Festival Terry Moylan Brian Vallely

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