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3 CD'S AVAILABLE: 'BY THE RIVER OF GEMS'; 'AN PHIB' AND 'MUSIC OF THE IRISH CELTS'. THESE ALBUMS ARE AVAILABLE AT £12 EACH INCL. P&P WORLDWIDE FROM: DICKY DEEGAN, HAWORTH HALL, HAWORTH PARK, E. YORKSHIRE, HU6 7AB, UK. ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE FROM NA PIOBAIRE UILLEANN, DUBLIN - SEE: dickydeegan.blogspot.com

Uilleann Piper Dicky Deegan has been playing the Uilleann Pipes for over 20 years. Throughout this period he has performed at most of the major Australian Music Festivals as well as many European, UK and Irish Festivals. Besides performing on ABC and SBS TV, Australia, RTE Raidio na Gaeltachta, Ireland, TV 1, France and the BBC, UK, he has been recorded by the Traditional Irish Archives, Dublin. He has performed with many artists over the years including Maireid O'Sullivan, the late Billy Moran, The Crack, Kangaroo Moon, Donal Lunny and Jackie Daly. Dicky has also performed several seasons as Uilleann Pipes soloist at the Sydney Opera House. Additionally, he teamed up with the didgeridoo wizard Mark Atkins to perform a duo on top of the Opera House Sails to celebrate the Opera House’s 20th birthday. Leaving the concert stage during the last movement, two riggers and two ladders were waiting outside. Mark and Dicky climbed their respective Sails and took up position. As the audience left the building the Opera House Sails were lit up and the playing began; simultaneously, in the large courtyard below the steps, heavy mining monster diggers performed a delicate choreographed ballet to the unlikely duo complete with appropriate lighting, special effects and fireworks display! Dicky was the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s guest artist for the exclusive Huntingdon Classical Music Festival, Mudgee, New South Wales. He shall hopefully be appearing with the IHOS Opera Company’s production ‘To Traverse Water’ at the Adelaide Arts Festival in 2010. Dicky is at home performing concerts as well as intimate recitals, combining stories and anecdotes with Uilleann Piping. Being a reed maker for well over 20 years, he also holds workshops on the playing, tuning and maintenance of this complex and temperamental instrument. These workshops and performances have been conducted for festivals/schools and colleges throughout Country and Outback Australia as well as the UK and Europe. Uilleann Piper Dicky Deegan was born in Hitchin, North of London, to Irish parents (father-Emo, Co. Laoise; mother-Adamstown, Co. Wexford) and first attended Traditional Irish Music lessons at St Josephs, Luton and the Irish Centre, Camden Town, London, in the mid 1970’s. The tutors were Paul Gallagher (flute) and Brendan Mulkere (fiddle). In October 1981 Dicky left the Northern Hemisphere for Australia. It was at the 1983 Longford Folk Festival that he heard his first set of narrow-bore Union/Uilleann Pipes – an 1820’s full Harrington set in the key of C played by master pipe maker himself, Geoff Woofe. Dicky’s first set was received early the next year, a Woofe practice set in the key of Bb. During this same year, 1984, an old lady in Hobart Town, Tasmania, was clearing out her attic on the sad occasion of her husbands passing. Amongst the artefacts was a long old box. Upon opening, the 5ft box was found to contain an odd looking pipe-like instrument. The Tasmanian Police Pipe Band was sent for, a photograph taken and posted to Na Piobaire Uilleann in Dublin. NPU in turn sent the photograph to Geoff Woofe in Mailors Flat, Victoria. Geoff flew to Tasmania, identified the pipes as a J. Coyne 1840’s full set in the key of C with double bass regulator (elder baritone reed still operative). This set was measured with precision and a true and faithful copy made by Geoff in Mailors Flat. This is the very set Dicky has now been playing for 20 years! Dicky is presently residing back in the Northern Hemisphere, available for Festivals/Recitals etc.

CD ALBUMS:

BY THE RIVER OF GEMS

AN PHIB

MUSIC OF THE IRISH CELTS

Above albums are available from Na Piobaire Uilleann, 15 Henrietta St., Dublin 1

www.pipers.ie

Ph:00353(0)18730093

Above CD's are also from: Dicky Deegan, Haworth Hall, Haworth Park, E. Yorkshire, HU6 7AB, UK Price including post and packaging £12.

REVIEWS:

"A consumate piper"- fRoots Magazine

"...uilleann pipes in the concentrated style of the great Seamus Ennis"-Wire Magazine

"...Dicky Deegan'd, (a term used to describe the stunning effect of the man's playing upon the senses of the uninitiated)" -The Living Tradition

IRISH SUNDAY TRIBUNE ALBUM REVIEW FOR AN PHIB:

"Here is a hugely-interesting player in the 'gentleman' mould, greatly involved with his instrument and all its wondrous potential, particularly on airs. A soft spot for the harmonic is there in keyboard chordal drones, and adventuring into didgeridoo shows he is not shy of experiment. This is rather overwhelming, but if Paddy O'Brien's is humerously zany, and his tricks on 'Ask my Father' approach stuck-CD precision, curios like using regulators for melody notes and a great launeddas-like blast at times leave little room for tedium. His obsession with the technicalities of tight fingering and regulator effects is a constant lift - in moments pure Clancy or again Ennis, on perfectly tuned, high-quality instruments". FINTAN VALLELY

http://dickydeegan.blogspot.com

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