Try the Pipes on Love:Live Music Day
As part of Love:Live Music Day on 21 June, Na Píobairí Uilleann is hosting Try the Pipes events in six locations around the country. Members of the public will have the opportunity to try out the uilleann pipes with the assistance of an experienced player. All ages are welcome.
The uilleann pipes are a uniquely Irish form of bagpipe, the family of instruments found throughout Europe and in parts of Asia and Africa. The pipes first appeared in Ireland and Britain during the first half of the eighteenth century, and were then developed to their modern form in Ireland over the following fifty to sixty years. The uilleann pipes are the most elaborate of all bagpipes, having a chanter capable of sounding two full octaves, and regulators enabling chordal accompaniment.
The venues for the Try the Pipes Love:Live Music events are as follows:
Dublin – Seamus Ennis Centre, The Naul, Co. Dublin, 4pm – 6pm, with Bill Haneman and Conor Roche-Lancaster
Galway – Eyre Square Shopping Centre, 5pm – 7pm, with Pádraic Keane and Marion McCarthy
Laois – Laois Shopping Centre, Portlaoise 3.30pm – 5.30pm, with Joe Walsh and Paddy Hyland
Limerick – Limerick Milk Market, 1pm – 3pm, with Mickey Dunne, Máire Ní Ghráda and Susan Mulcahy
Louth – Marshes Shopping Centre, Dundalk, 2pm – 4pm, with Mark Redmond & Friends
Waterford – City Square Shopping Centre, 2pm – 5pm, with the Waterford Pipers