Kathleen Loughnane & Cormac Cannon

Kathleen Loughnane: harp
Cormac Cannon: Uilleann pipes/flute/whistle

Irish music Meteor Award (2010) nominee Kathleen Loughnane is highly regarded for her work in arranging traditional Irish dance tunes and airs for the harp and also for researching the music of Irish harp composers of the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1990 she co-founded Dordan, whose mix of Irish and Baroque music has received widespread acclaim. Dordan received the National Entertainment award for traditional music in 1993.
Kathleen has 4 CDs and accompanying books to her credit, Affairs of the Harp, Harping On, Harp to Heart and her most recent The Harpers Connellan.
She has taught in Ireland and at major festivals in the US, Japan and throughout Europe. She was invited to play at the World Harp Congress in Dublin in 1995. Her arrangements have appeared in various publications and feature on the Harp Syllabus of The Royal Irish Acadamy of Music.
Kathleen is currently arranging a selection of tunes for harp from the MSS of Patrick O Neill (1763-1830)

Some memorable occasions
Invitation to attend a Bardic Conference at Princeton University to give a lecture /recital on the music of the harper composers of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Invitation from Na Piobairí Uilleann to give the annual Breandán Breathnach lecture.
Invitation to give a lecture recital on the music, life and times of the Connellan harpers at the 30th anniversary of the International Harp festival in Edinburgh.
Copenhagen concert and workshops.
Conservatoire de Vevey Switzerland concerts and workshops. Brussels with Cor Cois Cladaigh.
The Martin Reilly lecture/recital lecture Galway.
June/July summer schools, the International Harp festival at Termonfeckin co Louth, and the Willie Clancy School Milltown Malbay, Co Clare.
Concerts and workshops at the Catskills Irish Festival, New York and at Somerset Harp festival in New Jersey .
Recital with Michael Longley and Bernard O Donoghue at the Clifden Arts Festival.
Recital at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin as part of the WB Yeats festival of Moons.
The New York times Aug. 2015 reporting on the latter “One particularly resonant concert was held at the Hugh Lane Gallery in April, Kathleen Loughnane and her son Cormac Cannon on uilleann pipes performed traditional Irish music.”
Kathleen was invited to play for the opening of Celts Art and Identity at the British Museum with poets from four Celtic countries.Sept 2015.

Cormac Cannon began learning the whistle from Mary Bergin at an early age. He took up the pipes some years later, learning initially from Tommy Keane and later from other prominent players during regular visits to the Willie Clancy summer school. His playing draws heavily on the wealth of great recordings of earlier generations of traditional musicians, particularly those of pipers and fiddle players from Clare and Kerry.
Cormac has performed and taught extensively throughout Europe, Japan and the US, but in recent years prefers to stay closer to home and family. In 2011, he recorded a highly-regarded album in collaboration with Lamond Gillespie and John Blake - "The Trip to Carrick". He has also made contributions to a series of albums recorded by his mother, harpist Kathleen Loughnane -- most recently "Patrick O'Neill's Manuscripts" and "The Harpers Connellan". Other recorded output includes "The Cobblestone Sessions" and "Rogha Scoil Samhradh Willie Clancy 2008".