Nan Tom Teaimín de Búrca is an Irish traditional sean-nós singer.

Biography

Nan Tom Teaimín de Búrca (also given as Nan Tom Taimín) is from

Connemara Connemara (; )( ga, Conamara ) is a region on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of western County Galway, in the west of Ireland. The area has a strong association with traditional Irish culture and contains much of the Connacht Irish-speak ...

. She moved to

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in 1978 but there was no market for her traditional singing there at the time. When de Búrca moved back to Ireland she came to Rusheenamanagh, near

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. Today she teaches sean-nós singing and is a tutor for the masters course in the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance which is part of the

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. She has won a number of awards for her singing, including the Corn Uí Riada in both 1998 and 2000, the most prestigious annual award for sean-nós singing. She also was awarded the

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Singer of the Year award in 2014. She has released four solo albums of traditional Irish music, including folk songs and sean-nós as well as appearing on a number of collections of Irish music including ''Ireland : The Greatest Songs Ever''. She is a regular at festivals including being invited as a guest to the International Voice Festival in

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in Ukraine in 2002, where she gave a master class to people from all over the world.

Albums

*Traditional Songs from Connemara *The Home I Left Behind *The Banks of the Old Pontchartrain *The Whispering Wind *Walking After Midnight

References and sources

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