William Kennedy Piping Festival of Armagh
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| Country and Region | United Kingdom — Northern Ireland |
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| Type of Festival | Music |
| Location of Festival | Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland UK |
| Festival Contact Information | William Kennedy Piping Festival |
| Festival Description | The Armagh Pipers Club's William Kennedy Piping Festival takes place each November at various venues across Armagh City. The program features return visits from some of our favorite artists from throughout the years as well as host of new faces from the vibrant and diverse world of piping. What began as a small gathering of keen aficionados in the Drumsill House Hotel in 1994 has blossomed into one of the biggest and most important events of its kind in the world. Over the past 15 years the festival has not only presented the best of piping from Ireland and Scotland but has also welcomed guests from every corner of Europe – from the Iberian peninsula to the Mediterranean countries, from the Balkans to Central and Eastern Europe and from further north in Scandinavia to the different regions of England and Wales. The festival has also ventured further afield playing host to the exoticism of Algerian and Iranian music, as well as welcoming pipers from Canada, U.S.A. and Australia. Over the years the festival has played host to performances from such luminaries as The Chieftains, Altan, Davy Spillane, Paddy Keenan, Gordon Duncan, Capercaillie, Fred Morrison, Carlos Nuñez, Kathryn Tickell, and The Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band. |
| Festival Dates | November 14 - 18, 2012 |
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Festival Story:
Festival celebrates the life and work of William Kennedy, the 18th century piper, pipe maker and inventor who was born in 1768. This Festival, originally was conceived to bring together pipers from different countries and traditions, and was the first of its kind anywhere in Northern Europe. To date the event has brought pipers from Spain, France, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Belarus, Canada, USA, England, Scotland, and Wales as well as the cream of Irish pipers to Armagh.
Festival Events:
Lineup 2012:
- National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland (Scotland)
- At First Light (Ireland)
- Topanga (France)
- Buille with Karan Casey & Jarlath Henderson
- Distil Ancience (International)
- Seudan (Scotland)
- Rory Campbell (Scotland)
- Finlay MacDonald & Chris Stout (Scotland)
- Nell Ní Chroinín (Ireland)
- Caoimhín Ó Fearghail (Ireland)
- Ronan Browne (Ireland)
- Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn (Ireland)
- Mick O’Brien (Ireland)
- Mikie Smyth (Ireland)
- Brian McNamara (Ireland)
- Andy May (Northumberland)
- Emer Mayock (Ireland)
- Aoife Ni Bhriain (Ireland)
- Peter Browne (Ireland)
- Éamonn Curran (Ireland)
- Ioscaid (Ireland)
- Réalta (Ireland)
- Armagh Pipers Club Big Band (Ireland)
- Macha (Ireland)
- Síoda (Ireland)
- Cúig (Ireland)
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- Lawrence Towers, director of South American Piping Association
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- Lawrence Towers, director of South American Piping Association
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