PADDY KEENAN & TOMMY O'SULLIVAN
Monday 20th June. TICKETS E12
Paddy Keenan was a founder member and piper with the Bothy Band, a band that forever changed the face of Irish traditional music, merging a driving rhythm section with traditional Irish tunes in ways that had never been heard before.
Generally acknowledged as the most accomplished uillean piper performing today, Paddy is certainly one of the most brilliant musicians of his generation. He can rightfully claim his place alongside such open-style
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legends as pipers John Cash and Johnny Doran. 'In Irish music there are legends and legends and then there's Paddy Keenan.' John O'Regan - Rock'n' Reel.
Tommy Sullivan, a gifted guitar player and singer, has recorded with Sliabh Notes on Gleanntan' and Along Blackwater's Banks' and also with Paddy Keenan on The Long Grazing Acre'.
'Together...they are the finest pipes-and-guitar duo ever ...Keenan's playing has a masterful blend of sweetness and fiery power...O'Sullivan adds a subtly percussive and driving guitar. His vocal numbers...are gorgeous and soulful.'
The Munster Buttermilk
This is the duo's only appearance in County Cork in 2005.
The support act will be Cork musicians William Hammond (Accordion), Linda Quinlan (Fiddle) and John Mitchell (Uillean Pipes).
CORK MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL BOOKING DETAILS
Booking on : 1890 200 555
Bookings in person at Festival Box Office,
Festival House, 15 Grand Parade, Cork.
9.30am - 5.30pm, Mon - Fri | 9.30am - 1pm, Sat.
Box Office hours will be extended during the Festival.
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