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Sir James Galway OBE (born 8 December 1939) is an Irish [1] [2] virtuoso flute player from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Flute". [3] After several years working as an orchestral musician, he established an international career as a solo flute player.
3 Irish. 4 Japanese. 5 Native American. ... This is a list of notable flute players, ... James Galway; Bianca Garcia; Giuseppe Gariboldi;
Morrison was one of the leading Irish music teachers in New York in the 1930s and '40s. In addition to the fiddle, he could play the flute, tenor banjo and button accordion (and wrote a tutor on the latter) and taught hundreds of young Irish-American students to play traditional music.
21 Flute - Slow Airs (Feadóg Mhór ... 38 Irish Singing ... 1955, James Rooney & Sean McAloon, County Fermanagh; 1956, Seán Ryan & P. J. Moloney, County Tipperary ...
2013 The First of May (FOM2013) (with James Carty (fiddle), Sean Gavin (flutes) and Colm Gannon (accordion and melodeon)) 2016 The Forest of Ornaments (collaborative composition with Dave Flynn released on the album Shadowplay – New Irish Music for Flute and Guitar FRCD006) With Altan. 2002 The Blue Idol; 2012 Gleann Nimhe - The Poison Glen
A (keyless) wooden flute. The Irish flute is a simple system, transverse flute which plays a diatonic (Major) scale as the tone holes are successively covered and uncovered. . Most flutes from the Classical era, and some of modern manufacture, include various metal keys or additional tone holes (such as a seventh, "pinky-hole", to access one lower note, typically the seventh degree of the ...
His father, James Coleman, was from Banada in County Roscommon, and a respected flute player. Michael was the seventh child of James and Beatrice, and the surviving half of a pair of twins. As a child he learned step dancing and fiddle playing, and performed at local houses. His elder brother Jim had a high reputation but was never recorded.
Patrick J. Killoran (1903–1965) was an Irish traditional fiddle player, bandleader and recording artist. He is regarded, along with James Morrison and Michael Coleman, as one of the finest exponents of the south Sligo fiddle style in the "golden age" of the ethnic recording industry of the 1920s and 1930s.