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Mel Mercier |
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Mel Mercier is a lecturer at UCC where he specializes in Irish Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology, Javenese Gamelan, Indian Classical Music and Ewe Dance Drumming (Ghana). Born in Dublin in 1959, he received his first bodhrán and bones lessons from his father, Peader Mercier, a member of the Chieftains until 1976. Mel has performed and collaborated with pianist and composer, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, for over twenty-five years and, throughout the 1980s, he performed extensively in Europe and the USA with John Cage and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
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Tunde Jegede |
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Tunde Jegede is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who is uniquely placed between the worlds of Contemporary Classical, African and Pop music. He is a prolific Producer/Song writer and has worked across several genres both as a performer (Cello, Kora, Piano and Percussion) and producer. |
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Niwel Tsumbu |
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Since his arrival in Cork in 2004 from his war torn homeland of the Congo, Niwel Tsumbu has developed an enviable reputation as an elegant and fluent guitarist, vocalist and composer. Playing electric & acoustic guitars & singing mostly in his native ‘Lingala’, Niwel performs a range of music that stretches from contemporary versions of Congolese traditional music from the 1930s & 40s to modern Jazz |
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Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin |
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Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin is one of Ireland's best know musicians; as a pianist he is widely acknowledged as having originated a unique Irish piano style out of an Irish traditional music base. He has over ten CD recordings on release of his own compositions and arrangements performed by Irish Chamber Orchestra under his direction. As a performer he has given concerts across the world including the National Concert Hall (Dublin), Barbican Centre (London), Chicago Symphony Hall, Skirball Centre (New York), and TATA Theatre (Bombay).
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Maya Jobarteh |
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Maya was born in England, where she has spent most of her life. But she’s a member of an ancient family line from West Africa, going back for centuries. The Jobarteh family, in which Maya can trace her ancestry, is one of four principal families within the West African griot tradition. The other three are Kouyate, Suso and Kanute. This hereditary tradition dates back to the 13th century and the time of the celebrated Malian emperor Sundiata Keita. His legacy has been passed down from generation to generation within this exclusive caste of musicians. To this day most of the celebrated musicians in that region of West Africa (Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea) still come from these families. |
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Eamonn Cagney |
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Percussionist Eamonn Cagney has spent 10 years studying African drumming all over West Africa, most notably in Ghana. |
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