Word: uilleann
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...they add to the genuine feel of a small village in turn-of-the-century Ireland.One of the best parts of the show is the incorporation of live Celtic music, led by Molly J. Hester ’08. The band—which includes traditional instruments like the Uilleann pipes and the bodhran—is understated and professional, providing spirit and a much-needed sense of poignancy to the show without detracting from the main action.The presence of “genuine” Irish music also suggests an important issue that surrounds the show: the issue...
...Molly J. Hester ’08, along with Lindsay K. Turner ’07, has organized a small musical ensemble to bookend “Playboy” and to punctuate its action. The instrumentation is traditionally Irish, and certainly unique to the production. The accordion, fiddle, Uilleann (dubbed “indoor bagpipes” by Hester) and bodhran (an Irish percussion instrument) will accompany a vocal musician who, according to Spillane-Hinks, spans the gap between music and theater, and who will introduce the performance in a manner reminiscent of a Shakespearian prologue...
...community is open, lively, and friendly. Hester, in fact, isn’t even Irish by birth; this is her adopted culture. She began playing the uilleann pipes—Irish bagpipes operated by the elbows and fingers—around the same time she became interested in Irish step-dancing, and she has since became infatuated. It is the reason she says she came to Harvard from California: to be near Boston and its Irish community...
...perhaps the world's best-loved instrumental group. For more than three decades, in exotic venues from the Vatican to the Great Wall of China, the Chieftains have played traditional Irish music--half a millennium's worth of jigs and reels--on such contraptions as the tiompan, the uilleann pipes, the bodhran and the tin whistle. The only instrument they lacked was a charismatic human voice. It's true that one band member, Kevin Conneff, was given to "singing the odd song now and again, when we let him," as the Chieftains' chief, Paddy Moloney, said in 1991 on their...
...also in New York, have & helped break in many of these new acts, giving them a supportive place to develop an audience. At Sin-e (which means "that's it"), Sinead O'Connor has been seen helping clean up. Black 47, which combines traditional Irish instruments such as the uilleann pipe (a bellows-blown bagpipe) with reggae beats and straight-ahead rock, spent several years being heckled at pubs in the Bronx and Queens before settling in at Reilly's. The band's seasoning is apparent on their debut album; with assurance and maturity, the album covers such topics...