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2005
Southern California Tionól
October 7, 8 & 9 |
 Máire Ní Ghrada, Jimmy O'Brien-Moran & Benedict Koehler
In conjunction with the East Coast Pipers the 2005 Southern California Tionól will take place over the weekend of October 7, 8 & 9, 2005.
We are delighted this year to welcome three exquisite pipers - Jimmy O'Brien-Moran, Máire Ní Ghráda and Benedict Koehler and one exquisite fiddler, Kevin Crehan as our guests.
This years event will be held in the McKeagney residence once again in the beautiful Spanish Mission town of San Juan Capistrano. Friday will be the usual meet and greet/session. Classes will be held during the day on Saturday and Sunday with a house concert on the Saturday evening.
Concert ticket price is $15. Full pre-registered tionól fee, for pipers, received by Sept. 15th to include classes and concert is $75, $85 at the door.
Fiddlers fee is $50 to include concert and workshop.
To pre-register please specify:
- Your skill level i.e. beginner, intermediate or advanced (please be modest).
- Send your check for $75 made payable to "So.Cal. Uilleann Pipers' Club" to this address:
So.Cal. Uilleann Pipers' Club
c/o Larry Dunn
7153 Knowlton Pl.
Los Angeles, CA 90045-2215
Event Address:
The McKeagney's, 29251 Country Hills Rd, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675-1028
Airport and Accommodation
Airport: The closest would be John Wayne Airport (Santa Ana) but Long Beach Airport [sometimes cheapest, check out Jet Blue Airways for pricing] or LAX will also work.
Hotel: As far as a place to stay Best Value Laguna Inn & Suites @ $59-$99/night... that's the best we've been able to come up with. Tell them you are with the SCUPC Group.
Guest Bios
Pipes
 Jimmy O'Brien-Moran
Jimmy O’Brien Moran was born in Waterford, in Ireland’s Sunny South East. He began his interest in Irish music, and piping in particular, through the group Planxty and the playing of Liam O’Flynn. His piping exploration led to recordings of Séamus Ennis, Willie Clancy and others. Commercial recordings were few in those dark days and everything piping was gratefully embraced. Armed with a lovely chanter from Matt Kiernan, and a home-made bag and bellows, Jimmy was given a beautiful reed by Brian Gallagher on the 28th of May, 1975, and began the long journey that is piping. Local pipers Tommy Kearney and Donncha Ó Maidín were generous with their time and advice. Several stints at the Willie Clancy Summer School improved the technique a bit and in 1977 Jimmy was invited to record with several other young pipers on the PJ Curtis Album The Piper’s Rock. Almost 20 years passed before he recorded his solo CD Seán Reid’s Favourite, dedicated to the memory of piper and fiddler Seán Reid who had presented Jimmy with his Colgan set before Seán died in 1978. A devotee of flat piping he is constantly amazed at the music of Willie Clancy and has explored some of this through his friendship with that really great piper Seán McKiernan. Jimmy has enjoyed invites to tionóil around the world spreading the true faith and is very much looking forward to meeting all the pipers at the Southern California Tionól ::: more »
 Máire Ní Ghráda
Maire Ni Ghrada grew up in Cork City and, when she was eleven, began playing the pipes and flute under the tutelage of Micheál O Ríabhaigh at the Cork Pipers’s Club. She studied with him until his death when she was sixteen. Throughout the 1970s, she played with Comhaltas and traveled with other musicians to the U.S. , U.K. and Europe. She has been featured on radio and television as well, often with her brother, flute player Conol O Ghrada. In the late 1970s, Maire was one of the young pipers featured on the landmark album Piper’s Rock. In 1983, she met and married reknowned Clare hurler Colm Honan, for which Co. Clare seems not to have forgiven her, and has four sons. She lives in Co. Clare, near Limerick City and was a founding member of the Limerick Pipers’ Club, where she teaches regularly.
Maire went to University College Cork and took her degree in Irish studies. A fluent Irish speaker, she taught Irish language in secondary school for several years. In the 1990s she returned to school and took a degree in Ethnomusicology at University College Limerick. She presently teaches Irish Folklore at UL.
Maire has taught at several tionols in the U.S. and Germany and has performed in such prestigious venues as the Willie Clancy Summer School's piping concert and the William Kennedy Piping Festival. Maire cites Liam O'Flynn as her earliest influence. She plays a flat set pitched in C by Geoff Wooff, as well as a Froment B set. She's still plotting for the next set.
 Benedict Koehler - Pipemaker
Born in Boston, Benedict grew up listening to recordings of Irish traditional music sent over by his mother's family in Dublin. He took up the pipes in his twenties and has listened to and learned from a wide range of the older players, citing as particularly strong influences the stately musical tradition of East Galway and the complex and elegant piping style exemplified by the "gentlemen pipers" Seamus Ennis and Liam O'Flynn. These influences are evident in Benedict's graceful, lyrical style of playing.
Well known as an insightful and generous teacher, Benedict will be teaching beginning and intermediate piping workshops. He and his wife, harper/button accordionist Hilari Farrington. Benedict and Hilari live in East Montpelier, Vermont where Benedict, in association with David Quinn, makes and restores uilleann pipes and continues to enhance his reputation as a superb reed maker.
Benedict Koehler
70 Markham Road
East Montpelier, VT 05651 USA
Fiddle
 Kevin Crehan - Fiddler
Kevin comes to us from the Co. Wexford, Ireland. He is a member of one of Ireland's most illustrious musical families, a grandson of the late Junior Crehan. Kevin thoroughly imbibed not only the repertoire of his grandfather, including Junior's many wonderful compositions, but also the lovely old-fashioned "Clare style" of playing them. Kevin released his first recording, "An Bhabog sa Bhadog", in 2001 to great critical acclaim. It contains a number of rare traditional tunes, including many composed by Junior Crehan.
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