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Nuala Kennedy plays live

Irish singer and flute player Nuala Kennedy joins Bob tonight.

Nuala Kennedy joins Bob for a session tonight and will discuss her forthcoming third album 'Noble Stranger'.

Nuala hails from Dundalk, Co.Louth, on the East coast of Ireland; a musical area which is steeped in mythology and has long historical links with Scotland. She started to play traditional music at the age of seven when her father introduced her to her first whistle teacher. Nuala instantly fell in love with the music and started learning traditional tunes as quickly as she could. By the age of twelve she graduated to wooden flute and became a member of a local ceilidh band 'Ceoltoiri Oga Oghrialla'. The band, comprising several now highly respected traditional musicians, won the all Ireland Gradam award for the under twenty-one age group when Nuala was just thirteen.

At the age of eighteen, Nuala moved to Scotland to study at Edinburgh College Of Art. This was where Nuala formed her first real band, the trio Fine Friday, alongside guitarist Kris Drever and fiddler Anna-Wendy Stevenson. The trio toured widely in Europe, Canada and Australia, before disbanding in 2006, and released two critically acclaimed albums; 'Gone Dancing' and 'Mowing the Machair'.

Following a move to Inverness, Nuala created her own band in 2007, released a solo cd 'The New Shoes' and put together a show for 'Celtic Connections'.

In 2010 Nuala released her sophomore solo album 'Tune In', inspired by a vintage radio dial and has recently worked with Will Oldham and embarked on an academic career, as well as performing with traditional group Oiralla.

2 hours, 57 minutes

Last on

Sun 11 Dec 2011 00:00
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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  • Sun 11 Dec 2011 00:00
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