Articles tagged ‘uileann pipes’
Michael Vignoles, Irish instrument maker
By Seán | January 3rd, 2007 |Below is a video I shot a few years ago when I went to get a bodhran in Galway. Wifey and Aubie were with me at the time.
I used to show this video to my kids when I was teaching a unit on Irish music. After the video, I’d pull out the bodhran [...]
Brideswell Session
By Seán | November 10th, 2006 |Another fortnight come and gone and I found myself in Brideswell ordering Guinness at the counter of O’Connell’s Pub. Shifting anxiously in the air around my head were the sounds of uilleann pipes, guitars, flute and a bouzouki fidgeting themselves into musical readiness.
