Padraic Keane & Mick O'Brien - Patrick O'Keeffe Festival 2022 (Munster Pipers - Goodman Collection)

Master pipers Padraic Keane & Mick O'Brien in concert at the 2022 Patrick O'Keeffe Traditional Music Festival. Padraic Keane is a former TG4 Young Musician of the Year. He has toured America as a soloist with The Irish Chamber Orchestra and has collaborated with Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, The RTE Concert and Symphony Orchestras as well as various string quartets. He has also toured Europe with Ragús and worked with Galway's Irish language theatre group - An Taibhdhearc. He has featured on a number of albums including "The Rolling Wave" - a CD of young pipers issued by Na Píobairí Uilleann, "Tunes in the Church" and "Rogha Raelach" issued by Raelach Records.
A renowned uilleann piper, Mick first began his musical education on the uilleann pipes in the Thomas Street Pipers Club in Dublin city. He later went on to join Na Píobairí Uilleann (The Society of Irish Pipers) an organisation founded to promote the uilleann pipes and its music.

Throughout his time with these clubs, Mick absorbed hundreds of tunes and refined his technique, emerging as one of the most prominent uilleann pipers in Irish music.

In 1996 he released his highly acclaimed debut solo album, May Morning Dew. Unsurprisingly, the album is a delightful display of Mick’s masterful ability as a piper:

‘Concert and flat pipes, whistles and flutes not only demonstrate Mick O’Brien’s great instrumental versatility, but also make a fine job of the challenge of presenting yet another fine piping album… Award this piper his pedestal.’
– Fintan Vallely, Irish Music Magazine

Today, Mick is in huge demand as a performer and has become a household name.

Amongst a list of accomplishments too long to name Mick has collaborated with some of the biggest names in Irish music including The Dubliners, Frankie Gavin and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. He has also worked with several prominent Irish composers including Dave Flynn, who composed the first ever set of études for uilleann pipes, Five Études for Uilleann Pipes, specially for Mick. You might also recognise him from his time with a little show called Riverdance.

In 2003, Mick teamed up with renowned fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh to release Kitty Lie Over. The album was named Traditional Album of the Year by The Irish Echo and met with such acclaim that, in 2011, they released a highly anticipated follow up, Deadly Buzz.

The title, for those not in the know, is a reflection of the pair’s Dublin roots and upbringing. ‘Deadly buzz’ is Dublin slang for a good time or feeling good.

An example of traditional Irish music at its best, this talented fiddle and uilleann pipes duo succeeds in lifting your heart and raising your spirits, and does in fact leave you feeling a deadly buzz:

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