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Folk on Foot

Bonus Episode: Jarlath Henderson at the Isle of Skye Festival of Small Halls

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Music, Nature, Arts, Science

4.8526 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jarlath Henderson has been described as the “Jimi Hendrix of the uilleann pipes”.  He is also a fine singer and accomplished player of the whistle. At the age of 17 he became the youngest ever winner of the Radio 2 Young Folk award. He comes from Northern Ireland but has now made his home in Scotland where he combines his musical career with working as a doctor in emergency medicine.

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The old inn at Carbost on the Isle of Sky is legendary for its music sessions.

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I once stumbled in there on a very cold and wet night,

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and there were about four other people drinking at the bar,

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and there were five musicians sitting around the table,

0:18.9

giving it there all, a pipe player, a fiddle player, a guitarist, a Bodrum player,

0:24.2

all playing for the sheer love of music.

0:57.0

And during the Small Halls Festival in November, when some of Scotland's finest musicians came together to tour around the little venues on Sky, there was an extraordinary atmosphere as everyone packed into the old inn on a Sunday afternoon to hear them give their all. The I'm I'm I'm

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I'm You can hear playing there, Megan Henderson, Hamish Napier,

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Rachel Newton, who we walked with on Sky,

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and the amazing pipe player Jarwath Henderson.

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And we're going to hear his story now.

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