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Kirsten Allstaff
Kirsten Allstaff is one of the founders and directors of The Online Academy of Irish Music. She is an acclaimed flute and tin- whistle player and has played music throughout [.. Read More]
Kevin Crawford
Born in Birmingham England to parents from Miltown Malbay Co Clare Kevin Crawford’s early life was sound-tracked by the resonance of the lively traditional music scene in the midlands city.
Moving [.. Read More]
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh
A renowned artist with a proven record of performance recording and innovation Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh is a multi-award winning traditional singer and musician from Corca Dhuibhne West Kerry. Muireann is [.. Read More]
Derek Hickey
Derek Hickey hails from Adare Co. Limerick. He started playing accordion at a young age. By the age of 18 he joined the band Arcady and then at 21 was [.. Read More]
Niamh Dunne
Niamh Dunne is a highly accomplished singer fiddler and composer from Co. Limerick and has just released her debut solo song album “Portraits”. With master guitar player and producer Sean [.. Read More]
Edel Fox
Edel Fox is a concertina player from Miltown Malbay Co. Clare. She began playing at the age of 7 and was fortunate to be brought up in an area and [.. Read More]
Tola Custy
Tola Custy comes from Toonagh in County Clare. His father Frank was the local primary school teacher and also inspired many people to play traditional music. Names such as James [.. Read More]
Jim Higgins
Jim hails from Renmore in Galway. Born into a musical family he went on to study music in University College Cork under Micheal O Suilleabhain amongst others. While in Cork [.. Read More]
Steph Geremia
Steph Geremia is an Irish flautist and singer highly regarded as one of the top musicians of her generation. Perhaps best known for her vibrant and versatile Irish flute playing and [.. Read More]
Mirella Murray
Mirella Murray currently plays with 'Cherish the Ladies'. She grew up in Claddaghduff near Clifden on the north west coast of Connemara. Her father John Joe a notable sean nós [.. Read More]
Niall Keegan
Dr Niall Keegan was born in the south east of England and began playing Irish traditional flute at an early age amongst the community of first and second generation musicians [.. Read More]
Aidan O'Donnell
TG4 Young Musician of the Year 2010 Aidan O'Donnell has been described as one of the finest young Irish musicians at present. He began his music making at the age [.. Read More]
Cillian Ó’Dálaigh
Cillian currently plays with Irish band 'The Outside Track'. Born In Hamburg Germany to a German mother and an Irish father Cillian O’Dálaigh has been surrounded by Irish music from [.. Read More]
Mikie Smyth
Mikie Smyth began playing the pipes at the age of nine. His first teachers were Colm De Brun and Andy Conroy in the Pipers Club in Henrietta Street Dublin. As [.. Read More]
Majella Bartley
All Ireland champion flute player Majella Bartley hails from Corcaghan in Co. Monaghan. She is a respected flute and fiddle teacher tutoring at the Irish World Academy of Music and [.. Read More]
Thomas Johnston
Musician educator researcher Thomas’ work lies in those spaces between Irish traditional music music education practice and policy community music ethnomusicology and performing arts for children and young audiences.
His [.. Read More]
Lisa Canny
Lisa is a multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter and composer from Co. Mayo. At five years of age Lisa began learning tenor banjo and at ten she starting on the harp attending [.. Read More]
Billy Mag Fhloinn
Billy Mag Fhloinn was born and raised in a musical family in Limerick City. He began playing traditional music in 1996 beginning on the bodhrán. He then progressed onto the [.. Read More]
Stephen Markham
Stephen Markham is a pianist from Ennis Co. Clare. He began learning the piano at the age of 8 and quickly completed his classical music training with the Royal Irish [.. Read More]
Jon O'Connell
Jon O’Connell is a musician who has been active on the Irish music scene for close to fifteen years. From Miltown Malbay Co.Clare Jon is still based in this area [.. Read More]
Brian Fleming
Brian Fleming plays percussion from around the world specialising in the traditional Irish percussion instruments the bodhrán and bones and West African percussion. He has recorded on some 30 [.. Read More]
MJ McMahon
Mj McMahon was born and raised in East Co. Clare. From an early age he played percussion and bódhran and later in his teenage years developed an interest for the [.. Read More]
Paddy Cummins
Paddy Cummins was born and reared in Drimnagh Dublin and began experimenting with music at nine years of age. His first instrument of choice was the mandolin as played by his [.. Read More]
Dáire Mulhern
All-Ireland champion accordionist Dáire Mulhern from Ennis Co. Clare is a musician of high calibre who has toured both Europe and America extensively with Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann and other traditional [.. Read More]
Jean Damei
Jean Damei was born on 7th March 1989 in Grenoble France and started to play the guitar at the age of 16. After meeting a number of Irish musicians touring [.. Read More]
Liam O'Brien
2017 TG4 young musician of the year Liam O'Brien is from Miltown Malbay. He was brought up in a very musical family. After starting on the tin whistle he later [.. Read More]
Gwenn Frin
Gwenn Frin is a flute/tin whistle player.
Originally from Brittany France Gwenn fell in love with the Irish wooden flute at an early age and the flute has forever since [.. Read More]
Misc Tutors
OAIM VR Session has multiple tutors.
Play along with Tola Custy (Fiddle) Kirsten Allstaff (Flute) Neil Fitzgibbon (Fiddle) Ger Chambers (Accordion) MJ McMahon (Guitar) & Lisa Canny (Banjo/Harp)
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Alan Kelly
Described by New York’s Irish Voice as ‘in league with the best piano accordionists in the world’ [.. Read More]
Tom Delany
Born and raised in France Tom hails from an upbringing steeped in traditional music. His lively rhythmic style is truly unique. Having toured the world performing in both solo and [.. Read More]
Alan Reid
Alan Reid from North County Leitrim in Ireland is a highly-adept multi-instrumentalist. His banjo bouzouki mandolin and oud playing has seen him work extensively in [.. Read More]
Caroline Keane
Caroline Keane has been playing the concertina for more than twenty years and professionally since 2007. Growing up in Limerick she was surrounded by the musical richness of both Clare [.. Read More]
Christy Barry
Christy Barry has been playing music all his life. He plays with a unique sound and mastery of the Flute and Whistle which creates an insightful interpretation of Irish [.. Read More]
Nicolle Fig
Nicolle Fig was born in Mexico City. Years later she moved to Texas and then Ireland where she developed a passion for Irish culture its [.. Read More]
Marie McTeague
Marie McTeague (formally Clarke) hails from Letterkenny Co Donegal. She began playing the piano accordion and tin whistle at the [.. Read More]
Mega_Trad
MEGA_Trad is a band based in Limerick Ireland and is comprised of 2 brothers from the musical O’Dalaigh family and Denis McAuliffe a local legend on the mandolin to [.. Read More]
Neil Fitzgibbon
Neil Fitzgibbon is a musician composer and educator that has toured and shared stages with many musicians at home in Ireland and around the world. [.. Read More]
Francis Cunningham
Francis Cunningham hails from Crusheen Co. Clare. Described by Kevin Crawford as one of the finest young exponents of the concertina with a strong emphasis on the Clare tradition. In [.. Read More]
Therese McInerney
Therese McInerney hails from a little coastal townland just outside Miltown Malbay but now lives in Ennis Co. Clare.
She grew up surrounded by Irish Culture and developed a love [.. Read More]
Eimear Coughlan
Eimear hails from Tulla Co. Clare and continues in the musical heritage of her grandfather the much esteemed East Clare fiddle player Paddy [.. Read More]
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