CD Launch
Tuesday December 15 2009
BAGENALSTOWN MUSICIAN, Ciaran Somers (flute) Carlow fiddle player Dave Sheridan and Nicolas Quemener (guitar) recently launched a CD-Faoi Blath.
This is the debut recording of these three talented musicians and it is beautiful collection of Irish tunes played with energy and a great sense of enjoyment which they bring to their music.
Ciaran from Royal Oak Road, Bagenalstown is a music teacher in Borris Vocational SchoolHe first became interested in playing music when he took tin whistle lessons at the age of eleven with the late Michael Byrne and the local Comhaltas Ceoltoirí Éireann branch.
He moved on to the flute and he took lessons from John Browne before attending a number of workshops and summer schools throughout the country. Ciarán holds a BA in music from the Waterford Institute of Technology and a Masters Degree in Music Technology from the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Ciaran had a great interest in the Uilleann pipes and he worked as administrator of Na Píobairí Uilleann, the national organisation of Uilleann pipers. He is an experienced instrumental teacher having given workshops in the United States, Japan and throughout Europe. He is on the teaching staff of the annual Willie Clancy Summer School in Miltown Malbay. County Clare.
In addition, Ciarán is a regular visitor to Brittany where he has made many contacts including Pol Jezuquel who made the flutes that Ciarán plays. He has been a member of a number of performing groups including 'Gorumna' 'Bearu' and the Geantrai Players. The latter represented Ireland at the International Festival of World cultures at the Tokyo National Theatre in 2004 and were guests of the Chinese embassy in Beijing for St. Patrick's Day celebrations in 2008.
The CD would make a lovely Christmas gift for anybody who appreciates good Irish music and is available at Short Stories, Main Street, Bagenalstown.
