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SATURDAY
MAY 8
THE JOHN HEWITT 9.00PM
This concert brings together the finest young fiddle players
in the country including Liz and Yvonne Kane (Galway), Meabh
O’Hare (Belfast), Roisin McGrory (Donegal) and Niamh
Gallagher (Armagh)
Tickets £5.00 from the Festival Office
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Hailing from Connemara with a musical tradition on both sides
of the family, it was only natural for the Kane girls to play
music.
They began learning music from their grandfather Jimmy Mullen
and have a style heavily influenced by South Sligo fiddle
playing, the music of East Galway and the fiddle playing and
compositions of Paddy Fahey. The sisters recently spent 3
years as part of the Sharon Shannon and The Woodchoppers’
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Méabh O’Hare was born in Belfast in 1976. She
began playing the fiddle at the age of nine taking lessons
from the renowned MacPeake family then with the legendary
fiddle maestro Seán Maguire. Meabh received major recognition
for her ability as a musician when she was chosen as TG4’s
Young Musician of the Year in 2000. She recently presented
Banish Misfortune for RTE and with Dublin flute player Conor
Byrne has just released the CD Ceol Bavan to ecstatic reviews
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