Liz Knowles, Kieran O’Hare,
Jimmy Noonan, Owen McQuinn,
and the Rita O’Shea Irish Dancers

Fiddler Liz Knowles joined her husband, Kieran O’Hare, playing a beautiful set of uillean pipes, and Jimmy Noonan, Adjunct Professor in the Irish Studies Music Program at Boston College, on wooden flute for a rousing first set of Irish tunes. Liz then played a slow air by O’Carolan, on which she was joined by bodhràn player Owen McQuinn, and continued with Mother’s Delight reel, on which the others joined in. The third set started with what I heard as St. Luke’s Push and continued with three reels, to which the Rita O’Shea Irish Dancers performed an exuberant dance.

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Liz Knowles on fiddle,
Kieran O’Hare on uillean pipes,
and Jimmy Noonan on wooden flute

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Kieran O’Hare on uillean pipes

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Jimmy Noonan on wooden flute

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Liz Knowles on fiddle

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Liz Knowles plays an O’Carolan air on fiddle
accompanied by Owen McQuinn on bodhràn
as Jimmy Noonan and Kieran O’Hare look on

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Liz Knowles on fiddle,
Kieran O’Hare on uillean pipes,
Jimmy Noonan on wooden flute,
and Owen McQuinn on bodhràn

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The Rita O’Shea Irish Dancers

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The Rita O’Shea Irish Dancers

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The Rita O’Shea Irish Dancers

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Liz Knowles on fiddle,
Kieran O’Hare on uillean pipes,
and Jimmy Noonan on wooden flute

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Kieran O’Hare on uillean pipes,
Jimmy Noonan on wooden flute,
and Owen McQuinn on bodhràn