Galway Early Music Festival features Harpers and Pipers

In just a few weeks the Galway Early Music Festival will begin in the west of Ireland.  This year, the organizers, several of whom are regulars at Scoil na gCláirseach, have succeeded in bringing harper Siobhán Armstrong, piper Barnaby Brown and piper and singer Griogair Labhruidh, the members of Coracle, to the festival.  If you are [...]

A Harper, a Queen, and the Trinity College Long Room

As you may have heard, Queen Elizabeth made a recent historic visit to Ireland.  When she visited the faculty and staff of the Trinity College Library, historical harper Siobhán Armstrong was one of the academic and cultural eminences there to meet her.  The Queen of England had the good fortune to see and hear Siobhán [...]

More on Banríon an Cheoil: the Harp Recital in Belfast, Nov. 2009

Thanks to the sharp eyes of friend and doctoral research student Karen Loomis, I understand that TG4, the Irish language TV station, has presented a program this evening showing a number of the participants in the November 2009 Belfast harp recital. The harpers include some of the luminaries, such as Ann Heymann and Alison Kinnaird. [...]