Peadar O'Loughlin (; 6 November 1929 – 22 October 2017) was an Irish fluter, fiddler, and piper from

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who had been a fixture in Irish music since the late 1940s. He was best known for having played on the highly influential 1959 LP " All-Ireland Champions - Violin" (with Paddy Canny, 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 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), 1988 * ''Touch Me If You Dare'' (with Ronan Browne), 2002 * ''The Thing Itself'' (with Maeve Donnelly), 2004 * ''The Legacy'' (with Ronan Browne), 2015 *''Peter O'Loughlin, A Musical Life'', 2016 *''Friends of Note'' (with Paddy Canny, Paddy Murphy & Geraldine Cotter), 2019

References

External links

mustrad.org page about "All-Ireland Champions - Violin"

Musicians from County Clare 2017 deaths Irish male flautists 1929 births Claddagh Records artists 20th-century Irish flautists 21st-century Irish flautists 20th-century Irish male musicians 21st-century Irish male musicians People from Kilmaley 1950s in Irish music 1960s in Irish music 1970s in Irish music 1980s in Irish music 1990s in Irish music 2000s in Irish music 2010s in Irish music {{flautist-stub