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I've been a fiddle player now for
some thirty years (and violin a bit longer). I started at Uni but only
really got serious when I moved to Liverpool and met up with the Liverpool
Ceili Band. Eamon Coyne, Sean
Macnamara and Peggy Peakin taught me all I know and a fair
bit I've forgotten. I played in the All-Ireland finals in Listowel,
Co Kerry in 1981
I've never played in a group, as such, but did play
in the All-Ireland one year with the short-lived
Ferry Ceili Band (we didn't
win!) which did a few gigs around Liverpool and played on BBC GMR one
evening.
Bespoke
Fiddle Lessons - I provide lessons to beginners or more advanced
players. I try and do whatever you would like to do - learn some tunes,
how to do ornaments, bowing style, even (ssshh) vibrato.
I have the Teastas Diploma
and was the first person from the UK to gain it.
Contact
me here
Dance
calling - I've
done a fair bit of calling at Barn Dances over the years and am open
to offers.
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In
the Victoria Hotel, Robin Hood's Bay, with my brother, Rob and Shantymen
Kaaphoorn from Holland 
In
the pub in Heybridge at the Shanty Festival 2004
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