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"Laoi na Pibe (The Irish language version
of The Piper's Call television documentary) looks at the life, work
and music of Liam O'Flynn, one of Ireland's outstanding musicians. It is extraordinary how the pipes, when played as beautifully
as they are by Liam, captivate all who hear them. Musicians from
all sorts of traditions find they can fit the pipes easily into
their work. This hour-long programme portrait of Liam O'Flynn
was too short by half. I must say, that as we become swamped by
more and more incredibly bad television stations RTE and TG4 fly
the flag when they transmit programmes like this. Paddy Murray - The Sunday Tribune ''The Piper's Call' video includes all the music from The Piper's Call album, being performed by a selection of Ireland's top musicians including Arty McGlynn (guitar), Steve Cooney (guitar), Rod McVey (keyboards) and Liam Bradley (percussion) who together provide a perfect setting for Liam's piping on tracks such as 'The Humours of Kiltyclogher', 'Miss Admiral Gordon's Strathspey ' and 'The Humours of Carrigaholt Set'. The video also includes a special bonus track, of Danish origin, "Poul Pejsen" which was not included on the The Piper's Call album.
The video also has a 30 mins section of interviews with Liam, Liam O'Flynn Snr., Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, Mark Knopfler and Carlos Núñez. During these interviews Liam also performs a number of additional solo piping pieces. You can now listen to some extracts from this interview section - Click Here This 90 minute video provides a visual insight to a master piper and his trade. The Video is available in both NTSC and PAL formats. Buy Video online
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When
Liam O'Flynn started work on his latest album 
Liam
is also joined by guest musicians, Sean Keane whose virtuoso fiddle
playing is included on a number of tracks and on ''The Gold Ring'
his playing is particularly memorable. On 'The Drunken Landlady
/ McKenna' Reels' Liam and Sean are joined by another old friend
Matt Molloy. For the 'An Droichead' (The Bridge), track Liam is
joined by the incomparable Mark Knopfler on guitar which serves
to make this track one of the highlights of the recording. Top Galician
piper Carlos Núñez joins Liam for 'Muiñeira de Poio / Muiñeira de
Ourense (
