Saturday, March 6, 2010, at 8pm
145 Margarite Rd. Ext.
Middletown, CT
145 Margarite Rd. Ext.
Middletown, CT
Please call Jody Cormack 860-983-7963 for reservations
or email jcormack@wesleyan.edu
Born in Birmingham, England and moving to Ireland in his early 20s, Kevin Crawford became a member of Moving Cloud, the Clare-based band who recorded such critically-acclaimed albums as Moving Cloud and Foxglove. He also recorded with Grianán, Raise The Rafters, Joe Derrane and Sean Tyrrell and appears on the 1994 recording The Sanctuary Sessions. In 1997 he joined the group Lúnasa (also known by some as the “Bothy Band of the 21st Century”). As a virtuoso flute player, Kevin has recorded two solo albums, D’Flute Album, and In Good Company. Last year, Kevin and Cillian Vallely produced an album as a duo -- “On Common Ground”. The combination of uilleann pipes and flute is rare in duet recordings of traditional music and the duo have utilized the unique tonal qualities of their flat-pitched ‘C’ instruments to record the music on this CD.
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Cillian Vallely learned music from his parents Brian and Eithne, who founded the Armagh Pipers’ Club, a group that for over three decades has fostered the revival of traditional music in Ireland’s north. After taking up his father’s instrument, Cillian polished his skills with tutelage from the late Armagh piper Mark Donnelly. His mastery of chanter, drones and regulators, and of all the accents and moods of the traditional piping idiom, place him in the first rank of today’s Irish pipers. In addition to performing and recording with his brother Niall (concertina), Cillian tours with the group Lúnasa (which he joined in 1999), and has also performed extensively in America with groups such as New York’s Whirligig and Paddy O’Brien’s Chulrua, and has appeared with fiddler Seamus Connolly, Riverdance on Broadway and Tim O’Brien’s The Crossing.
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