There was indeed some exotic piping at this Piping Centre presentation, including a version of the pipers’ favourite, Donald Willie and His Dog, in a metre that substituted a camel for the canine. The more traditional piping styles of both Scotland and Ireland were conspicuously well represented too, however.
The venue’s own Simon McKerrell gave a splendid opening recital on Highland pipes, showing a marvellous fluency as well as superb technical command on jigs, strathspeys and reels, and delivering a Gaelic air from his ancestors’ homeland, Kintyre, with real feeling.
Uilleann piper Sean McKeon kept saying sorry for not being Seamus Ennis, his hero and source of much of his repertoire.
But this former holder of Ireland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year title needn’t apologise for his skills…
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