Peadar O'Loughlin
Peadar O'Loughlin was an Irish fluter, fiddler, and piper from Kilmaley County Clare, Ireland who had been a fixture in Irish music since the late 1940s. He was best known for having played on the highly influential 1959 LP "All-Ireland Champions - Violin", which was one of the first LPs of Irish traditional music. He performed in the Tulla Céilí Band and Kilfenora Céilí Band and recorded duet albums with piper Ronan Browne and fiddler Maeve Donnelly.
His unique flute style earned him All-Ireland champion titles in 1956 and 1957. It is characterized by strong rhythmic flow with sparse ornamentation, occasionally punctuated by unusually long silences which emphasize the rhythmic structure of the tunes.
Discography
All-Ireland Champions - Violin, 1959The South West Wind, 1988Touch Me If You Dare, 2002The Thing Itself, 2004The Legacy, 2015- Peter O'Loughlin, A Musical Life, 2016
- Friends of Note, 2019