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CONTACTS FOR UILLEANN PIPERS

I get lots of inquiries about where people can find other pipers--either teachers or fellow-learners--in their areas. Here is a list. Some are professionals and take on students (please inquire about rates and availability), others are fellow pipers who are willing to serve as contacts for new pipers in their areas.

If you play the Uilleann pipes, either professionally or you just started or you're anywhere in between, and are willing to be a contact for other pipers in your area, please let us know, and we'll add you to the list.

Thanks to everyone listed here.

For another good source of pipers around the country and the world, see Dean Karras' excellent bagpipes page.

 

ALABAMA

Pelham Norville
Atlanta, GA
email: norvipd@mail.auburn.edu
"I would be happy to help any up and coming pipers get off the ground. I play in traditional group Southwind based in Auburn, AL"

Mike Crunk
Muscle Shoals,AL
tel: 256-757-8444
email: Jude581@hotmail.com
North Alabama area.


ARIZONA

Jim Burke
Tucson, AZ
Tel: (520) 625-6920
email: dokb0042@aol.com


ARKANSAS

Caven Clark
4435 Keener Lane
Harrison, AR 72601
home tel: 870-743-9167
work tel: 870-741-5446 ext 252
email: azuilleann@yahoo.com

CALIFORNIA

Kevin Briley
Bakersfield, California
tel: 661-321-0049
email: kbriley@ncinternet.net

Michael Eskin
San Diego, CA
tel: (619) 441-7675
email: eskin@cox.net
website: http://www.michaeleskin.com
Currently own a Kirk Lynch half-set and Michael Vignoles full set. I'm happy to help out any new players or anyone looking for a local San Diego session.

Patrick D'Arcy
Los Angeles, CA
tel: (818) 716-5188
email: pdarcy@concentric.net

Richard Katz
San Jose, California (San Francisco Bay Area)
Tel: (408) 446-1596
email: rkatz2552@aol.com
website: http://www.katzwerk.com/piper
"I am not an instructor... just a player at the moment. I do know quite a bit about pipes and general maintenance, etc."

Gabriel McKeagney
Southern California pipers club
gmckeagney@cox.net

David Youtsey
706 N. Washington St.
Dixon, CA 95620
Tel: (707) 678-0126

Steve Farrell
San Gabriel, CA
email: steve@pipersteve.com
website: http://www.pipersteve.com

 

COLORADO

Eric Olson
6340 Shoup Road
Colorado Springs, CO 80908
Tel: (719) 495-9623
"There are about 4-5 of us that get together every once and a while for pints and tunes (and reedmaking when we're being good)"

Bill Tiernan
Grand Junction, CO
Tel: (970) 245-2198
email: btiernan@mesastate.edu
"I live in Western Colorado, and would be more than happy to meet with/help/etc. beginning pipers. I've been playing for ten years and have had lessons from Jerry O'Sullivan and Joe McKenna."

Brian Cassidy
Littleton, CO
Tel: (303) 979-6840
email: brianc14b@hotmail.com

Dirk Mewes
217 Riverglen Way
Berthoud CO 80513
email: dirk.mewes@comcast.net
http://www.slowplayers.org/SCTLS/
I live in the northeast part of Colorado, and I have been playing since November 2000. We have a tune-learning session in Longmont every Sunday and I sometimes play at sessions between Fort Collins and Denver. D

 

CONNECTICUT

Glenn Adamson
New Haven, CT
Tel: (203) 785-1664
email: glen.adamson@yale.edu

Matt Cook
Windsor, CT
Tel: (860) 688-5815
email: MGCookies@aol.com

Will Hare
Connecticut
Tel: (860) 456-1715
email: HAREW@ecsu.ctsateu.edu

David A. Silver
P.O Box 208
Morris, CT 06763
tel: (860)567-8651
email: DSilver263@aol.com
I played the Great Highland Pipes with Litchfield Hills and Drums for over 12 years and I'm new to the uilleann pipes. I have a concert D half-set made by Bruce Childress.

Eckard Lehmann
10 Murphys Lane,
Brookfield, CT 06804-3022
tel.: 203 740 0099
email: steinenbach@yahoo.com
"Hello, I just moved from Germany to Danbury, Connecticut.
...if there is someone who is able to give some lessons or want to make some music together, be kind and mail or ring me up."

 

FLORIDA

Eamonn Dillon
Plantation, Florida
tel: 954-316-8505
website: www.eamonndillon.com
instruction

Nick Vaccaro
Tampa, FL
email: mrp0sitive@yahoo.com
tel, nights: 813-909-7090
Any other GHB or Uilleann pipers can contact me after 6 pm
I've been playing since May 1999. So far, I've gotten the basics down and I can be of service to experienced GHP pipers as well as Uilleann pipe beginners.

John Maze
Gainesville, FL
tel: 352-377-6227
email: maze@ufl.edu or mazearch@gemlink.com
I am taking students now. I have two full sets of uilleanns, in D and in B (childress), and a chanter by Burke of Arizona...a couple of other types of pipes as well, flutes, bodhrans (Alfonso), etc...

Kathleen Cavanagh
Orlando, FL
cavanagh@atlantic.net
The Florida Uilleann Piper's Resource Guide
http://members.atlantic.net/~cavanagh/uilleann/
" I'm a beginner, but can give moral support and encouragement!"


GEORGIA

Henry Frantz
Atlanta, GA
Tel: (404) 378-2757
office: (404) 370-1290

Chris Weidner
Lookout Mountain, GA
Tel: (706) 398-0364
email: lookoutpiper@aol.com
"Beginner on Uilleann pipes, but have played Highland pipes for five years, and I also play whistle."

 

IDAHO

Adam Scarlett
Boise, ID
tel: (208) 343-5891
email: a_scarlett@hpb22488.boi.hp.com
"can help pipers get started"

 

ILLINOIS

Isaac Alderson
Chicago, IL
tel: (773) 860-6684
"Three-instrument All-Ireland Senior Champion, performing and teaching regularly. Currently studying music in New York, but I am frequently back home in Chicago. I love to teach and would be happy to help anyone out."

John Gaffney
Harvard, Illinois
tel: (815) 943-0611
e-mail: jwgaffney@hotmail.com

Patrick Cannady
Chicago (North Side)
tel: (773) 426-8001
email: irishtradmusic@sbcglobal.net
Experienced uilleann piper and pipes teacher.
Regular instructor/performer at festivals and piping weekends.
"I have been playing irish music (on the whistle) since the early 1990s and the pipes since 1996. I haven't been playing pipes as long as some on this list, but I'm not shy about playing in public. I have been in love with the pipes and piping repertoire since I bought my first Planxty CD.
Like any addiction, no amount of this addictive substance, piping, is ever enough for me."

Greg McRobbie
2403 W Springfield Apt. X8
Champaign, IL 61821
email: gmcrobbie@yahoo.com
tel: 816.668.5980

Noreen Feeney
Chicago (Southside)
Chicago, IL
email: nf@anicemess.com
"beginner converted from Highland Pipes"

INDIANA

Jim Smith
6014 North Morristown Road
Shelbyville, IN
Tel: (317) 392-4230
email: katesmith@lightbound.com

Bill Reeder
705 Lawton Place
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805
email: iupiper@fwi.com
tel: 260-423-4503

KANSAS

David Wood
519 Osage Apt 4
Manhattan, Ks 66502
(785) 587-9327
email: imacelt@lvnworth.com
tel: http://www.angelfire.com/ks/uilleann
I haven't been playing long enough to call myself and instructor, but I would to meet with anyone interested or anyone who plays.

MAINE

Tom Wilsbach
229 Walton Street
Portland ME 04103
Tel: (207) 797-5905
email: twilsbac@maine.rr.com
"I'm always glad to help beginners. I live in Portland, ME and have been playing twenty-odd years. Glad to help out with new pipers, available to play pipes, fiddle, whistle"

Tom Rota
78 Danforth St #7
Portland, ME 04101
(207) 780-8042
email: rotatom@aol.com
"I am willing to help any way I can."

Rich Gouette
Windham, Maine
207-892-3817
email: richgouette@yahoo.com
"I'm starting out, but if there's anything I can do..."

Susanne Ward
55 Masonic Street
Rockland Me 04841
tel: 207 594-5434
email: sward@midcoast.com
I host a session here every third Friday of the month and am especially fond of flat pipes. I play a C set made my Geoff Wooff and a Kohler-Quinn D set.


MARYLAND

Rick Kemper
10605 Lockridge Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20901 USA
days 202/736-3225
evenings 301/593-6954
email: RKemper@ctia.org

 

MASSACHUSETTS

Aaron Welsh
22 Iffley Rd. #2
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
email: piper54@worldspy.net

Avi Lev
P.O. Box 60
Vineyard Haven, MA 02568
Tel: (508) 693-6863
email: avilev@vineyard.net

Bruce C. (B.C.) Childress
115 Monadnock St.
P.O. Box 231
Gardner, MA 01440
Tel: (978) 632-4114
email: bcpipes@tiac.net
Uilleann pipe maker

Kevin O'Brien
4 Wyatt Circle
Somerville, MA 02143
Tel: (617) 628-0161
email: kobrien@gis.net
instruction

Jonathan Hohl
8-B Randolph Place
Northampton, Massachusetts 01060
tel: (413) 218-9987
email: jonathan_hohl@yahoo.com

 

MINNESOTA

Tom Klein
tel: 651-227-3367
email: adeletom@bitstream.net

 

MISSISSIPPI

James Clark
Jackson, MS
Tel: (601) 373-6396
email: invst@ibm.net
"been playing for two years, willing to help anyone in the area"

 

MISSOURI

Gregory McRobbie
Kansas City, MO
tel: (816) 668-5980
email: gmcrobbie@yahoo.com

Mike Mullins
297 Wolfrum Road
St. Charles, MO 63304
Tel: 636-926-9192
email: mmullins@postnet.com
"I live in the St. Louiis area and play a Eugene Lambe D set".

George Gerules
St. Louis, Mo.
email: ggerules@yahoo.com www.gerules.com

 

MONTANA

David F. Latham
P.O. Box 946
Libby, MT 59923
phone or fax 1-406-293-8202
email: montanian@libby.org
David plays Uilleann pipes in the Shaughnessy Hill band. http://www.libby.org/montanian/shaughnessy.htm David sponsors an Irish Fair every year the first Saturday before St. Patrick's Day. http://www.libby.org/montanian/irish.htm

 

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Kevin Meyers
16 Grove Street
Nashua, NH 03064-2254
tel: 603-883-3204
email: piperkevin@msn.com

Dick Bennett
Contoocook, NH
tel:603-746-3196
email: rajhbennett@comcast.net

NEW JERSEY

Willie Kelly
Parsippany, NJ
Tel: (973) 402-5978
instruction

Johnny Redstone
email: JohnERed66@yahoo.com
new piper, looking to connect with other pipers in
the area to learn and grow

 

NEW MEXICO

Scott Estes
tel: (505) 244-3789
email: bagpiperse@aol.com

Andrew Post
tel: (505) 299-6471
email: Silarith@aol.com


NEW YORK

Neil Begley
Long Island, New York
tel: (516) 627-1852
urabt2@aol.com

Jerry O'Sullivan
Yonkers, NY
(914) 376-2142
email: killasser@worldnet.att.net
website: http://www.uilleann.com/jerry

professional piper, teacher

Bill Ochs
New York, NY
tel: (212) 247-3231
email: bill@pennywhistle.com
website: http://www.pennywhistle.com
teaches whistle and uilleann pipes

Fritz Stafford
410 New Scotland Ave.
Albany, NY 12208
tel: (518) 458-6024
email: fstafford@naba-vision.org

Ray Wall
Albany, NY
tel: 518-436-8581
email: rayloco@aol.com
broken string band
irish traditional
sheiling
celtic and original

Isaac Alderson
Yonkers, NY
tel: (773) 860-6684 (mobile)
"Three-instrument All-Ireland Senior Champion, and music student at Sarah Lawrence College. Performing regularly in New York City and elsewhere, available for performance and instruction. I love to teach and would be happy to help anyone out."

NORTH CAROLINA

Joshua Bulla
P.O.Box 600
Dillsboro, NC 28725
email: jabulla@msn.com

Eric Hahn
Raleigh, North Carolina
tel: 919.872.8070
email: piperhahn@yahoo.com

Phillip L. Sexton
245 Independence Road Apt 5
Sparta NC 28675
Tel: (336) 372-6132
email: philsexton@InfoAve.Net
website: http://web.infoave.net/~philsexton/fancy.html

Pat Sky
2000 Ridgewood Road #312
Chapel Hill, NC
Tel: (919) 929-2048
email: plsky@intrex.net

 

OHIO

Michael Kilbane
28605 West Oviatt Road
Bay Village, Ohio
tel: (440) 835 9869
email: mckilbane@juno.com
instruction

Timothy Benson
10 West Mather Lane
Bratenahl, OH 44108
tel: 216.851.3555
email: timothybenson@hotmail.com

David Jones
Cincinnati, Ohio
tel: 513-509-5933
email: phantom@choice.net
Only two of us left in Cincinnati. Please check us out at The Riley School of Irish Music http://w3.one.net/~rsim/. Phillip Rolfes is currently the "instructor". Both of us play Seth's pipes and we'll help anyone over the initial hump.

 

OKLAHOMA

Patrick S.J. Carmack
Oklahoma City (Piedmont), OK
tel: (405) 373-4125
email: mwcor@june.com
"I am just beginning and would be happy to meet any Uilleann pipe enthusiasts in the area."

 

PENNSYLVANIA

Rodney E. Owens
2710 Banks Street
Harrisburg, PA 17103-2018
Tel: (717) 720-2183
Tel office: (717) 234-2526
email: rowens@pheaa.org

James Van Fleet
222 Market St.
Mifflinburg PA 17844
tel: (570) 966-3308 home
email: vanfleet@bucknell.edu
Currently own a Seth Gallagher full set in D, and a Tim Britton
half-set. Piping for about 4 years, interests include reed-making and transcribing tunes, and meeting as many other pipers as possible.

 

RHODE ISLAND

Patrick Hutchinson
Providence, RI
Tel: (401) 233-6720
email: patrick_hutchinson@brown.edu
teacher

 

SOUTH CAROLINA

Daniel Hendrix
204 Tramrod Trl.
Travelers Rest SC, 29690
email: dhend382@yahoo.com
I learned from Ed Harrison, the kindest, most patient man I have ever known.

Bruce Nuelken
Columbia, SC
tel: (803) 736-4118
email: bnuelken@sc.rr.com

 

TENNESSEE

Matt McNeely
Oak Ridge, TN
tel.:865- 220-0737
email:buttermilkpiper@comcast.net
"I've been at the pipes for about 8 years now. ÊI'd love to help outÊanyone with their piping."ÊÊ

Lewis Blevins
Nashville, TN
daytime tel: (615) 343-7146
email: lewis.blevins@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu or
glands@comcast.net
"I could serve as a contact here in Nashville and the mid-South. I have been at it for 15 months now (Jan. '99) and feel as if I can help point others in the right direction...and offer generous amounts of encouragement."

Jeff Doty
P. O. Box 242059
Memphis, TN 38124-2059
email: jeffdoty@bellsouth.net
"I'd be happy to correspond with other pipers (or those interested) in the area. I also play whistle, harp, guitar, mountain dulcimer, etc."

Ray Tyler
980 Lola Whitten Rd
Selmer, TN 38375
email: rosecreekpiper@hotmail.com
I just started playing pipes several months ago . And would be thrilled to have someone to play and learn from. I live about 100 miles east of Memphis, and I am more than willing to travel to see anyone interested in helping.

Davis Watson
6003 Foxland Dr.
Brentwood, TN 37027
home: (615) 373-7858
cell: (615) 308-6795
email: dcwatson19@hotmail.com
I live in Nashville, TN and go to school in Grand Rapids, MI. Have been playing pipes for a little over a year now. (June 2002) Would love to get together to play & learn.

 

TEXAS

John Liestman
Houston, TX area
email: liestman@wt.net
website: http://web.wt.net/~liestman/
"I make Northumbrian smallpipes and have recently moved over to "the dark side". There are 5 or 6 of us Uilleann pipers in the area now, all but 1 are real beginners (including myself) but we have a pretty good support group going."

Steve Rees
Round Rock, TX (Austin area)
Tel: (512) 310-8165
email: Paddypiper@aol.com
website: http://www.texasmusicnet.com/courage
"I play a Kirk Lynch half set, as well as Northumbrian smallpipes, scottish smallpipes, Highland pipes and the Gaita Gallega."

Sam Cobb
Hurst, TX
Tel: 817-595-1358
email: stc6729@mindspring.com
Have a Neil O'Grady practice set and have been playing since May 2001. I played sax for 6 years so I know music decently.

David Wood
Dallas, TX
email: imacelt@lvnworth.com
tel: (214) 768-5029
I've been playing since 2000. I play a Kirk Lynch half set and a set of John Walsh's shuttle pipes. Would love to meet up with some pipers in Dallas/Forth Worth area.


UTAH

Brian Dobson
745 Barlow Circle
Clearfield, UT. 84015
tel: (801) 864-7474 *86-IRISH*
email: uilleann_craic@yahoo.com

VIRGINIA

Nick Whitmer
Rt. 1 Box 58
Port Republic, VA 24471
Tel: (540) 249-5410
email: nwhitmer@vsla.edu
part-time pipe maker, Uilleann pipe supplies

Kevin Magill
105 Brittania Dr.
Williamsburg VA 23185
tel: (757) 564-0477
email: husinger@msn.com

Tim Patterson
Lynchburg, VA
work tel: (804) 528-4014
home tel: (804) 385-0657.
email: patmos@ofrbc.org


WASHINGTON

Wally Charm
Irish Piper's Club
P.O. Box 31183
Seattle, WA 98103-1183
tel: (206) 784-7353
email: ipc@wolfenet.com
Wally edits Iris nabPiobairi, the Piper's Review

Christopher E. Galas
Seattle, WA 98033
tel: 425-576-8925
email: oldmancoyote@OldManCoyote.com
Piper looking for other pipers, and willing to help anyone in the area.

Ian Lawther
21132 NE 42nd Street
Sammamish, WA 98074
email:
instructor of uilleann pipes

 

 

WASHINGTON DC

Christian Crowley
1644 Newton Street, NW
Washington, DC 20010
tel: (202) 667-1745
email: ccrowley@synergyinc.com
"I'm a beginner and would like to make contacts with others around the area!"

WEST VIRGINIA

Charles Fowler
Marinsburg, WV
Tel: (304) 229-5747
email: chasfowler@juno.com
"I take students in from the Eastern Pandhandle of West Virginia and the Northen Shenandoah Valley (Winchester, Va area)"

 

WISCONSIN

Craig Heilman
7500 Paoli Rd
Verona, WI 53593
tel: 608.424.6877
email: craigh@bugsoft.com
"I have been playing whistle and bodhran for about 5 years and have recently taken up the pipes. I'd be willing to be a contact for anyone in the Madison Wisconsin area."

John Ceszynski
Milwaukee and Menasha, WI
email: kcdwhistler@yahoo.com
Playing uilleann pipes for 8 years, involved in Irish traditional music and dance for 17 years. Play and instruct on uilleann pipes, tin whistle and bodhran

Michael E Williams
Wausau,Wisconsin
email: Eirepiper@aol.com

Sheila Shigley
3814 Hoover Dr.
Madison, WI 53714
tel: (608) 244-7849
email: sheila_shigley@yahoo.com

CANADA

Paul Reid
275 Country Glen Road
Markham, Ontario
tel: 905 294 2111
email: paul@uilleann.ca
"Photographer/Graphic designer, piper in training!"

Ray Caldwell
Toronto
35 Avondale Boulevard
Bramalea, Ontario
tel: 905 791 5969
email: rcaldwel@idirect.com
or rayc@optiuminc.com

Patrick McSweeney
354 boul. René Lévesque Ouest,
Québec (Québec) G1S 1R9
Canada
email: pjmcsweeney@ireland.com


Christophe Garenc
Québec
331 Richelieu
Québec, Qc
Canada G1R 1J9
email: 1anchepasse@sympatico.ca

Bob Gardiner
Ontario
10 Dollyvarden Blvd.
Scarborough, Toronto
Ontario Canada M1H 2K3
tel: 1 416 438 5516
email: ruairibeag@home.com

Iain MacDonald
Saskatchewan
Box 132
Avonlea, SK S0H 0C0
tel: 306-868-2125
fax: 306-868-2126
email: iainmacd@sk.sympatico.ca
"I have been learning to play since about 1983, and would love to hear from/meet with other pipers. I run the Mid-Winter Celtic Festival in Regina each February."

Ian Harper
505748 Grey Rd #1
Kemble, ON N0H 1S0
tel.: (519) 371-7667
email: iharper@xplornet.ca

Debbie Quigley
Toronto, Ontario
tel: (416) 269-9052
instruction

Greg Schnider
Langley, British Columbia
tel: (604) 514-0883
email: gschnider@hotmail.com

Murray Kendrick
email: ceoltoir45@hotmail.com
Been involved in Trad flute for about 10 yrs now. Anxiously awaiting delivery of a practice set from Neil O'Grady. Looking for mentors and fellow learners.

Mr. Daryl McWhirter
Montreal,Quebec
Email: uilleannpiper1971@hotmail.com or d_mcwhirter@hotmail.com

Virgil Colby
902-25 Lascelles Blvd.
Toronto, Ontario
M4V 2C1
tel: 416-489-7210
email: virgil.colby@sympatico.ca
"I am a student of Deb's (Debbie Quigley) and slowly making my way through the learning curve."

COSTA RICA

Eduardo Oviedo Villalobos
San Francisco de dos Ríos,
San José, Costa Rica
email: sgaiterocr@costarricense.cr

DENMARK

Ole Buhl
email: olebuhl@mail.stofanet.dk
I play on a Marc van Daal concert fullset.


FRANCE

André ORLAC'H
Parc au duc
29600 Plourin lès Morlaix
FRANCE
email: andre.orlach@wanadoo.fr

Sylvain Roy
186 Chemin Des Pres,
06270 Villeneuve-Loubet
France
Tel: 00 33 (0) 6 16 67 83 86
email: sly22@caramail.com
I can read email but can't send them. So, if you would like to email me please give me your postal address for return mail.
I have made a master about the Uilleann pipes for a French university. It is written in French and will be soon available in commerce. I like to speak about this research I made in Ireland with every body.

GERMANY

Uwe A.O. Heinlein
Cologne, Germany
e-mail: uao@tinkers.de
I can give advice and lessons for uilleann pipes, tin whistle, accordion.

SPAIN

Alfoso Ahumada
C/Emilio Valle,30
39200 Reinosa (Spain)
Tel: 942-751686
email: UEI0893595600@eurociber.es

Jorge F. Areces
Guillermo Schultz Nº4 2ºb
33.600 Mieres Asturias
Spain
email: j.areces@teleline.es
I am a profesional bag-piper. I play the Asturian bag-pipe and uileann pipe.

Jose Antonio García
Madrid, Spain
email: joseag@bigfoot.com

SWITZERLAND

Marc Schwind
CH-8200
Schaffhausen
e-mail: mschwind@bluewin.ch
I play the the Uilleann Pipes for a few months an I hope I can get some new tricks from somebody.

UK

Robbie Byrne
Cumbria, UK (near the Lake District)
website: http://www.bagpiper-weddings.com
email: robert.byrne@ntlworld.com
I teach penny-whistles (and pipes when the occassion presents itself) in Colleges and some schools.


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