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Sheehan’s, The Maple Leaf and The Donegal Reel
Instrumentation: Pipes, Cittern, Keyboard Synths, Percussion -
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RAY CALDWELL
Contact Information:
Tel: 416 846 5166 - email: raymondwcaldwell@rogers.comClick on this link to view my Wedding Website:
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Slow Air: Even in the Hills and in the Countryside (Ní Ar Chnoc Ná Ar Ísleacht)
I learned this air from the playing of Ivan Goff from New York, but have altered the melody considerably.
I used the regulators, which are the keyed pipes that lay over the piper’s lap above the drones, for the harmony.
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MORNING DEW - I incorporated a middle eastern melody into this traditional Irish tune. The main melodic instrument is Uilleann pipes, which are multitracked to produce a lush harmonic sound. Accompaniment instruments are Cittern, Guitar and Fretless Bass. Percussion instruments are Tabla and Bodhran.
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RAY CALDWELL - Uilleann Pipes ____________________________________________________________
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Primary Instrument:
Uilleann Bagpipes
(Irish Bellows Blown Bagpipes which are played sitting. Sweeter and more mellow than Scottish Cousin ‘Mouth Blown Highland Bagpipe’. Also has a double octave range as opposed to the single octave of Scottish pipes.
Other Instruments:
Cittern (Large Mandolin Family-5 pairs of strings)
Tin Whistles (Various Keys) - Low ‘D’ Whistle (Flute sounding)
Classical & Flat Top Guitars - Mandolin
Bodhran (Hand held Irish Drum)
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Major Projects:
“Castle Skye” with Billy Fairley and Stringdriventhing
“Kitty’s Return” with Karen Light & “A Celebration of Celtic Yoga” with Michaela Caldwell
Alannah Myles - Ä•län•näh, Mychael & Jeff Danna - A Celtic Tale, Alan Frew of Glass Tiger,
Gary William O’Hart - Ninth Night Beyond Tara,
Holborn Nature Recording - Ireland, the Waters and the Wild,
Scott MacMillan’s “Celtic Mass for the Sea”
CBC/NFB Documentary - The Caregivers,
1998 Canadian Open Bank of Montreal Commercial.
“House of Not”, Aaron Solomon’ s “Coole Park”
Dovid Gabay, Teens at Risk Benefit at Roy Thomson Hall
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Other Interests:
Organiser (since it’s inception in 1991) of the premier Toronto Irish folk music event: The Chris Langan Traditional Irish Music Weekend, held annually at the Tranzac Club, Toronto.
Teaching Uilleann Bagpipes and Tin Whistle.
Inductee of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, (Traditional Irish Music Society) North American Hall of Fame
Aikido practitioner and instructor. (Aikido is a Japanese Martial Art focussing on conflict resolution.)
Affiliations: AFofM Local 149, Toronto, Member.
