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Now wonderful musicians, such as Paddy Moloney and Joanie Madden, have made the tin whistle world-famous and hugely popular ... and more experienced music players. The company's presentation ...
Alex Green, tin whistle player and master of traditional Scottish ... When he returned home from Aberdeen Children’s Hospital in 1935 with the top half of both the fore and index fingers missing ...
ALEX Green, who has died aged 87, was a well-known master of traditional Scottish music and a tin whistle player despite the fact that at just five-years-old, the miller’s son lost two fingers ...
Tin whistlers from across Ireland packed into Chadwicks Wexford Park to enter the Guinness Book of World Records at this week’s Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann. A total of 2,516 tin whistle players ...
The Fleadh Cheoil festival in Wexford have broken the Guinness World Record for the most tin whistles played simultaneously, with 2,516 players coming from all over Ireland and abroad to play The ...
Led by the University of Aberdeen’s Elphinstone Institute and the Friends of Elphinstone Institute, the Alex Green Tin Whistle Festival ... who was looking for a whistle player to join his ...
Born in 1938, Mr Moloney grew up in a musical family in north County Dublin. A piper, tin whistle player and composer, he formed The Chieftains in 1962. President Higgins said people around the ...