Eamonn Cotter is a highly respected flute player, maker, and teacher from Kilmaley, County Clare. He plays with the popular group Shaskeen. He has released two solo recordings: \u201cEamonn Cotter: Traditional Music from County Clare,\u201d and (in 2012) \u201cThe Knotted Chord.\u201d Eamonn teaches privately and at workshops and summer schools, including the Willie Clancy Summer School.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s Eamonn\u2019s own description of his recorded work:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first recording I did was an album just released on tape in 1979 with the school band that I\u2019d been with for 5 years \u2013 that was at St Flanaghan\u2019s College which I attended from 1972 to 1977. That was a great school for musicians; I studied with Noel Hill, Paul Roche, many well known musicians.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all played together in a ceili band for those few years. The school decided to release an album to commemorate some centenary they had to celebrate the foundation of the school. It was just released on tape. It\u2019s a very good album; it\u2019s a shame they don\u2019t release it on CD. It was recorded at Windmill Lane studio in Dublin; it\u2019s a famous studio now but it was in its early days then. Since then I\u2019ve recorded with Shaskeen Ceili Band; I also did a solo on The Mouse Behind the Dresser, which is a very well-distributed album. Of course there\u2019s my own solo album which was released two years ago in 1996. It\u2019s gone fairly well, I got pretty good reviews, I was surprised. Naturally you\u2019d expect with an album like that you would get some negative vibes; maybe people are being too nice to me. I\u2019ve been braced for it, but I haven\u2019t got any yet for some reason \u2014 maybe they feel I wouldn\u2019t be able to take it!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eamonn Cotter is a highly respected flute player, maker, and teacher from Kilmaley, County Clare. He plays with the popular group Shaskeen. He has released two solo recordings: \u201cEamonn Cotter: Traditional Music from County Clare,\u201d and (in 2012) \u201cThe Knotted Chord.\u201d Eamonn teaches privately and at workshops and summer schools, including the Willie Clancy Summer … Continue reading About Eamonn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cotterfluteworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cotterfluteworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cotterfluteworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cotterfluteworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cotterfluteworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/cotterfluteworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"http:\/\/cotterfluteworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cotterfluteworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cotterfluteworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}