William Kennedy Piping Festival

Armagh Pipers Club is delighted to announce details the 16th William Kennedy Piping Festival. The event will take place from the 12th – 15th November at various venues across Armagh City. The line-up so far includes --- MÍCHEÁL O SÚILLEABHÁIN AND FRIENDS (featuring mel mercier, iarla ó lionáird, cillian vallely, tiarnán ó duinnchinn, grace tolland and the carolan string orchestra) --- MOZAIK (featuring andy irvine, donal lunny, nikola parov, bruce molsky and rens van der zalm) --- BRIAN FINNEGAN BAND (featuring aidan o’rourke, ian stephenson, jim goodwin & special guest jarlath henderson) --- JERRY O’SULLIVAN (USA) --- ALBOKA (basque country) (featuring alan griffen, joxan goikoetxea, juanjo otxandorena, xabi san sebastián) --- RONAN LE BARS & NICOLAS QUEMENER (brittany) --- KIERAN O’HARE AND LIZ KNOWLES (USA) --- RONCOS DO DIABO (portugal) (featuring andré ventura, mário estanislau, joão ventura, victor félix and tiago pereira) --- LOÏC & RONAN BLÉJEAN (brittany) --- CILLIAN VALLELY & KEVIN CRAWFORD --- ANDREW CARLISLE --- EDELMIRO FERNÁNDEZ (galicia) --- FRASER FIFIELD & ALI HUTTON (scotland) --- GRIOGAIR LABHRUIDH & SÍLE DENVIR (scotland/ireland) --- TIARNÁN Ó DUINNCHINN & PAUL O’SHAUGHNESSY --- MARC POLLIER (france) --- ELIOT GRASSO (USA) --- ANNA MURRAY (scotland) --- LORCAN MAC MATHÚNA & MAITIÚ Ó CASAIDE --- JARLATH HENDERSON --- PETER BROWNE --- ARMAGH PIPERS CLUB ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- What began as a small gathering of keen aficionados in the Drumsill House Hotel in 1994 has blossomed into one of the biggest and most important events of its kind in the world. Over the past 15 years the festival has not only presented the best of piping from Ireland and Scotland but has also welcomed guests from every corner of Europe – from the Iberian peninsula to the Mediterranean countries, from the Balkans to Central and Eastern Europe and from further north in Scandinavia to the different regions of England and Wales. The festival has also ventured further afield playing host to the exoticism of Algerian and Iranian music, as well as welcoming pipers from Canada, U.S.A. and Australia. Over the years the festival has played host to performances from such luminaries as The Chieftains, Altan, Davy Spillane, Paddy Keenan, Gordon Duncan, Capercaillie, Fred Morrison, Carlos Nuñez, Kathryn Tickell, and The Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band.Tickets go on sale mid July.Further Information and full programme details at www.wkpf.orgGet your layout on
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