19th William Kennedy Piping Festival
The 19th William Kennedy Piping Festival opens on Wednesday 14th with a concert in The Four Seasons Hotel, Monaghan featuring the uilleann pipers from the Armagh Pipers club and the world renowned National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland. This concert is part of a new project by the Armagh Pipers Club entitled ‘The Pipers Bridge’ taken from the name of a road halfway between Armagh City and Monaghan town. The Pipers Bridge project flags up both the long association between the Armagh Pipers Club and Monaghan and the crucial role played by piping in building cultural bridges not only in Ireland but all over the world where pipes are played. There will be another concert in Armagh on Thursday 15th in the Marketplace Theatre featuring the same line up. The NYPBoS will deliver two school concerts as well in Armagh plus an outdoor lunchtime concert on Thursday 15th outside the Marketplace Theatre whose amphitheatre-like steps overlooking Market Street have in recent years featured groups as ...