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List Of TG4 Traditional Musician Of The Year Recipients
The TG4 Traditional Musician of the Year Award is given annually as part of Gradam Ceoil TG4. The award is to recognise the role of traditional Irish music and to ensure the task of carrying forward the Irish tradition into the future. The following is a list of the recipients of the award. * 1998 – Tommy Peoples, County Donegal * 1999 – Matt Molloy, County Roscommon * 2000 – Mary Bergin, Dublin * 2001 – Máire Ní Chathasaigh, County Cork * 2002 – Paddy Keenan, County Meath * 2003 – John Carty, County Roscomman & London * 2004 – Seán Keane, Dublin * 2005 – Jackie Daly, County Cork * 2006 – James Kelly, Dublin * 2007 – Liam O'Flynn, County Kildare * 2008 – Martin Hayes, County Clare * 2009 – Charlie Harris, County Luimnigh * 2010 – Seán McKiernan, County Galway & Boston * 2011 – Noel Hill, County Clare * 2012 – Bryan Rooney (musician), County Leitrim * 2013 – Dermot Byrne Diarmaid () is a masculine given name in the Irish language, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gradam Ceoil TG4
TG4's Gradam Ceoil was set up in 1998 with the purpose of recognising the various musicians and organisations who are significant in the creation of Irish Traditional music and in developing both the music and other musicians in Ireland and around the world. It is considered the premier Traditional Irish Music Award event. The awards are annual, given at a concert which highlights the recipients and is broadcast live on TG4. It is considered that channel's flagship event. Judges The judging panel is made up of experts in traditional music. It has included Áine Hensey, Ann Mulqueen, Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich, Caoimhín O Fearghail, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Cathal Goan, Ciarán Ó Gealbháin, Claire Keville, Conor Byrne, Dermot McLaughlin, Fintan Vallely, John Blake, Kevin Crawford, Liz Doherty, Mary Bergin, Mary McPartlan, Meaití Joe Shéamuis Ó Fátharta, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Muiris Ó Rócháin, Neansaí Ní Choisdealbha, Niamh de Búrca, Pat Ahern, Proinsias ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán McKiernan
Seán McKiernan is an Irish traditional musician of Carna, County Galway who plays the uilleann pipes. He was named ''TG4 Traditional Musician of the Year'' at the ''Gradam Ceoil'' of 2010. He came from an Irish speaking family of Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ..., but has lived in Ireland since 1965. References Irish male uilleann pipers Musicians from County Galway Musicians from Boston 21st-century Irish uilleann pipers 21st-century Irish male actors {{Ireland-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laoise Kelly
Laoise Kelly is a traditional Irish music composer and harpist. She won the 2020 Musician of the Year Award. Biography Laoise Kelly is from Westport, County Mayo. Kelly learned music from her father and began learning the harp from when she was 12. She learned from Ann-Marie Scanlon and Kim Fleming as well as John Hoban. Kelly has been described as the "most significant harper of her generation". She has founded a number of groups including ''Bumblebees'' and ''Fiddletree'' with whom she has several albums each. She has also recorded albums with a wide variety of Irish artists including Uilleann piper Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn, The Chieftains, Sharon Shannon, Mary Black, Dónal Lunny, Kate Bush, Christy Moore and American musician Tim O’Brien. She also tours with pipers, fiddlers and singers. Kelly lives on Achill Island and was involved in founding the new Achill International Harp Festival. Kelly is also a composer and has written music for The Abbey, Dublin and the Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine McEvoy
Catherine McEvoy is an Irish musician who plays the Irish traditional flute. She received the TG4 TG4 ( ga, TG Ceathair, ) is an Irish free-to-air public service television network. The channel launched on 31 October 1996 and is available online and through its on demand service TG4 Player in Ireland and beyond. TG4 was formerly known ... Musician of the Year award in 2019. Her playing is influenced by Josie McDermott. References Living people Irish flautists Year of birth missing (living people) {{Ireland-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankie Gavin (musician)
Frankie Gavin is a fiddle player of traditional Irish music. Early years Frankie Gavin was born in 1956 in Corrandulla, County Galway, from a musical family; his parents and siblings being players of the fiddle and accordion. As a child he played the tin whistle from the age of four and, later, the flute. He received some formal training in music, but his musical ability on the fiddle is mainly self-taught. When 17 years old, he gained first place in both the All Ireland Under-18 Fiddle and Flute competitions. Music career In the early 1970s Gavin played musical sessions at Galway's Cellar Bar, with Alec Finn ( bouzouki, guitar), Mickey Finn ( fiddle), Charlie Piggott (banjo), and Johnnie (Ringo) McDonagh ( bodhrán). In 1974, from these and further sessions, he founded the group De Dannan with Alec Finn. When De Dannan split-up in 2003, Gavin founded a new group, Frankie Gavin and The New De Dannan, which led to an acrimonious exchange between Gavin and Finn. In a H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (; born 26 July 1959) is an Irish fiddler and the lead vocalist for the Irish folk music band Altan, which she co-founded with her late husband Frankie Kennedy in 1987. Today, Mairéad is recognised as a leading exponent in the Donegal fiddle tradition, and she is often considered one of the foremost singers in the Irish language, her native tongue. She was part of the Irish supergroup T with the Maggies who performed in January 2009 at Temple Bar TradFest in Dublin their first ever two concerts under that name and who released in October 2010 their debut (and to date only) album. After nearly 22 years with Altan, Mairéad released in February 2009 her debut solo album ''Imeall''. After 29 years with Altan, Mairéad released in October 2016 her alternate band Na Mooneys' debut album ''Na Mooneys''. Background Ní Mhaonaigh grew up in Gweedore, County Donegal, on the northwest coast of Ireland. Her father, Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, who got married in 1954, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Burke (musician)
Kevin Burke (born 1950) is an Irish master fiddler considered one of the finest living Irish fiddlers. For nearly five decades he has been at the forefront of Irish traditional music and Celtic music, performing and recording with the groups The Bothy Band, Patrick Street, and the Celtic Fiddle Festival. He is a 2002 recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition to his solo albums, Burke has had successful project collaborations with Christy Moore, Andy Irvine & Paul Brady, Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, Jackie Daly, Ged Foley and Cal Scott. Early life Kevin Burke was born in 1950 in London, England to parents from County Sligo in Ireland. Inheriting a love of Irish music from his parents, he took up the fiddle at the age of eight, studied under Jessie Christopherson, and eventually developed an advanced technique in the Sligo fiddling style. He travelled frequently to Ireland to visit relatives and immersed himself in the local Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Máirtín O'Connor
Máirtín O'Connor is an Irish button accordionist from Galway, Ireland, who began playing at the age of nine, and whose career has seen him as a member of many traditional music groups that include Skylark, Midnight Well, De Dannan, and The Boys of the Lough. A traditional Irish musician, O'Connor was one of the major forces of the music in the world-renowned ''Riverdance''. His first solo album ''A Connachtman's Rambles'' established him as a solo musician and proved a major critical success. O'Connor has released three albums since; ''Perpetual Motion'', released in 1990, ''Chatterbox'', released in 1993, and ''The Road West'', released in 2005. Discography Solo work * ''The Connachtman's Rambles'' (1979) * ''Perpetual Motion'' (1990) * ''Chatterbox'' (1993) * ''The Road West'' (2001) * ''Rain of Light'' (2003) With others * ''EastWind'' (1992) * ''Crossroads'' with Cathal Hayden and Seamie O'Dowd (2008) * ''Going Places'' with Cathal Hayden and Seamie O'Dowd, as M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Bradley (musician)
Harry Bradley (born 1974 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Irish flute player. Overview He began playing tin whistle at age 12 and went on to flute in his early teens inspired by local musicians and the early recordings of Irish music made in America. He received further inspiration from local flute players such as Noel Lenaghan, Michael Clarkson, Sam Murray and Brendan O'Hare. He has toured Europe and America both as a solo performer and teacher, and as a member of groups such as Dervish and Cran. His debut solo CD, ''Bad Turns and Horse-shoe Bends'', was released to broad critical acclaim and was chosen as the number one traditional album of 2000 by Earle Hitchner of New York's ''Irish Echo''. Bradley is also a dedicated uilleann piper and has served as a member of the board of directors of Na Píobairí Uilleann (NPU), the society for uilleann pipers, where he taught the instrument. He was elected TG4 TG4 ( ga, TG Ceathair, ) is an Irish free-to-air public serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dermot Byrne
Diarmaid () is a masculine given name in the Irish language, which has historically been anglicized as Jeremiah or Jeremy, names with which it is etymologically unrelated. Earlier forms of the name include Diarmit and Diarmuit. Variations of the name include Diarmait and Diarmuid. Anglicised forms of the name include Dermody, Dermot (, ) and Dermod. Mac Diarmata, anglicised ''McDermott'' and similar, is the patronymic and surname derived from the personal name. The exact etymology of the name is debated. There is a possibility that the name is derived in part from ''dí'', which means "without"; and either from , which means "injunction", or , which means "envy".. The Irish name later spread to Scotland where in Scottish Gaelic the form of the name is ''Diarmad''; Anglicised forms of this name include ''Diarmid'' and ''Dermid''.. Diarmaid * Diarmaid Mac an Bhaird (fl. 1670) Irish poet * Diarmaid Blake Gaelic footballer * Diarmaid MacCulloch (born 1951) British church hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Rooney (musician)
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Brian Rooney may refer to: * Brian Rooney (actor) (born 1972), Australian actor * Brian Charles Rooney, American actor and singer * Brian L. Rooney (born 1970), American murderer * Brian Rooney (journalist), American television news correspondent, son of Andy Rooney * Brian Rooney, Iraq war veteran and candidate in the United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, 2010 See also *Rooney (surname) Rooney is an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of the Irish Ó Ruanaidh meaning "descendant of Ruanaidh". It may refer to the following people: Art * Paul Rooney (artist), English visual and sound artist *Sally Rooney (born 1991), Irish author ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Hill (musician)
Noel Hill (born 1958) is an Irish concertina player from County Clare who has had great influence developing the modern playing style of the Irish concertina, as a performer and educator. Early life Noel Hill was born in Caherea in West County Clare, Ireland, into a family with seven siblings. His parents and grandparents were all concertina players. He was particularly influenced by his uncle, Padraig A Chnoic, (Paddy Hill). He lived in a house which was the last house in the area to hold the traditional Irish house dance, where musicians were always welcomed; particularly towards the end of the year when farm work was done. It was at these events that he learned his early tunes, rather than from the radio, books or records. Hill started playing at nine and listened extensively to Willie Clancy, Paddy Canny, Peter O'Loughlin, Paddy Murphy, and Micky Hanrahan. Much of the music in his later repertoire comes from the music he learned as a child from those players. Hill want ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
