It provides weekly classes in the uilleann pipes and eight other instruments to around 200 students, mostly of school age, from Armagh and six surrounding counties. The Club organises the William Kennedy Piping Festival in Armagh every November. The Armagh Pipers Club is delighted to be part of Piping Live! again and will provide a group of fantastic Irish traditional musicians to be part of the festival lineup.

It is represented in this year’s Piping Live! by:

Kenny Qua, a primary school teacher from Markethill, Co. Armagh, who plays flutes, pipes, whistle and guitar

Danú McKinney, a fiddler from Madden, who has been involved with the Club from age 7, and has won numerous fleadh medals at provincial and national levels

Liam Hughes, a student from Keady, plays the tin whistle, flute, uilleann pipes and guitar

Gerry Lappin, a retired teacher and translator from the shore of Lough Neagh, is an accordion tutor with the Club

Tara Gilsenan, from Monaghan, is a harpist, pianist and singer who teaches and performs throughout Ireland