Peadar O'Loughlin (6 November 1929 – 22 October 2017) was an
Irish flute
The Irish flute is a conical-bore, simple-system wooden flute of the type favoured by classical flautists of the early 19th century, or to a flute of modern manufacture derived from this design (often with modifications to optimize its use in Ir ...
r, fiddler, and piper from
Kilmaley County Clare
County Clare ( ga, Contae an Chláir) is a county in Ireland, in the Southern Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Clare County Council is the local authority. The county had a population of 118,81 ...
,
Ireland
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who had been a fixture in
Irish music
Irish music is music that has been created in various genres on the island of Ireland.
The indigenous music of the island is termed Irish traditional music. It has remained vibrant through the 20th and into the 21st century, despite globalis ...
since the late 1940s and was best known for having played on the highly influential 1959 LP "
All-Ireland Champions - Violin" (with
Paddy Canny
Paddy Canny (1919 – 28 June 2008) was an Irish fiddle player. In a career that spanned over six decades, Canny was instrumental in popularizing Irish traditional music, both in Ireland and internationally. He gained initial fame in the la ...
,
P. Joe Hayes, and
Bridie Lafferty), which was one of the first LPs of Irish traditional music. He performed in the
Tulla Céilí Band and
Kilfenora Céilí Band and recorded duet albums with piper
Ronan Browne
Ronan Browne is an Irish musician and composer who plays the Irish pipes. He plays and sings with the band Cran, and also played in a 40-year duet with Peter O'Loughlin. He was the original piper with both ''Riverdance'' and the Afro Celt So ...
and fiddler
Maeve Donnelly.
His unique flute style earned him
All-Ireland champion titles in 1956 and 1957. It is characterized by strong rhythmic flow with sparse ornamentation, occasionally punctuated by unusually long silences which emphasize the rhythmic structure of the tunes.
Discography
* ''All-Ireland Champions - Violin'', 1959
* ''The South West Wind'' (with
Ronan Browne
Ronan Browne is an Irish musician and composer who plays the Irish pipes. He plays and sings with the band Cran, and also played in a 40-year duet with Peter O'Loughlin. He was the original piper with both ''Riverdance'' and the Afro Celt So ...
), 1988
* ''Touch Me If You Dare'' (with
Ronan Browne
Ronan Browne is an Irish musician and composer who plays the Irish pipes. He plays and sings with the band Cran, and also played in a 40-year duet with Peter O'Loughlin. He was the original piper with both ''Riverdance'' and the Afro Celt So ...
), 2002
* ''The Thing Itself'' (with
Maeve Donnelly), 2004
* ''The Legacy'' (with
Ronan Browne
Ronan Browne is an Irish musician and composer who plays the Irish pipes. He plays and sings with the band Cran, and also played in a 40-year duet with Peter O'Loughlin. He was the original piper with both ''Riverdance'' and the Afro Celt So ...
), 2015
*''Peter O'Loughlin, A Musical Life'', 2016
*''Friends of Note'' (with Paddy Canny, Paddy Murphy & Geraldine Cotter), 2019
External links
mustrad.org page about "All-Ireland Champions - Violin"
Musicians from County Clare
2017 deaths
Irish flautists
1929 births
Claddagh Records artists
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