Michael Tubridy

Michael Tubridy ( born 1935 in Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland) is an Irish flute player.

Tubridy was great as a son of farmers with music; at 13 he began to play the Uilleann Pipes of his brother, rose with 15 years in the band and played the tin whistle. After a year in London in 1954, he returned back to Ireland, where he met Paddy Moloney and Sean Potts. They often appeared together on at her concerts and various sessions, even on the radio. End of the decade he became a member of Seán Ó Riadas legendary formation Ceoltoiri Chuallan and later a founding member of the still successful Chieftains. He was involved on the albums 1-8.

He always had problems to connect his everyday life with the Chieftains and left the band in 1979, primarily because of the still ongoing fright to pursue engineering as an everyday occupation. However, it is the music, especially Irish dance music, remained faithful and has been teaching for years in the context of music festivals flute and tin-whistle game while his wife Celine teaches traditional tap dance.

During his time with the Chieftains, he has recorded a produced by Paddy Moloney (pure ) solo album on which he plays flute, concertina, tin whistles, Fife, Bombard and bodhran.

In 1998 he published a book with exercise tape for traditional Irish step dancing (published as CD 2005 ).

Discography

  • Ceoltoiri Chuallan
  • Chieftains
  • The Eagle 's Whistle (1978 )
  • A selection of Irish Traditional Step Dances ( 1998)
  • Flutist
  • Irish musicians
  • Born in 1935
  • Man
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