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Mairead Hurley

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About Me

Mairead Hurley is a concertina player from Ballymote, Co. Sligo,a region steeped in a rich musical tradition. She is currently based in Dublin. Coming from a very musical family, Mairead originally began playing tin whistle and flute, learning from her father Michael, before eventually settling on concertina as her preferred instrument. She has won numerous medals at All-Ireland level, including the prestigious title of All-Ireland Senior concertina champion at Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann in Letterkenny in 2006. Mairead has performed and taught at various workshops, festivals and summer schools in Ireland, the UK, Germany, USA and Canada. In 2007 she was featured on the RTE radio programme "The Bloom of Youth", and has also made television appearances on the Fleadh programme and The Late Late Show on RTE. She is currently attempting to complete a PhD in astronomy in DCU but really likes playing the concertina much more than looking at galaxies.


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/20/2007
Band Members: me, and whoever i can bribe into playing with me.....for these tracks i gave sweeties to fiddle player jacqui martin and guitarist, sound engineer and all round nice guy conal early and it seemed to work out just spiffing!
Influences: Michéal O'Raghallaigh, Tim Collins, Noel Hill to name a few of many!
Sounds Like: a small wood and metal box filled with reeds!
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Music!

Hi everyone....finally got around to setting up a music page, and have uploaded a couple of tracks, featuring me on concertina, Jacqui Martin on fiddle, and Conal Early on guitar....hope you enjoy!Mai...
Posted by Mairead Hurley on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:26:00 PST