The usual reminder, a house is just a house and only holds so many (about 45, with many seats taken by the workshop musicians) and our house concerts have always sold out.
Send an e-mail to rmacdiarmid@cogeco.ca to book your spot for the concert or workshop. Bring a chair.
Patrick Ourceau is a virtuoso on the fiddle, an avid student of the old masters, and a particular specialist in the style and repertoire of Clare and East Galway.
Since moving to North America twelve years ago, Patrick Ourceau has performed
with many U.S.-based musicians, including the legendary accordion players
James Keane and Paddy O'Brien, concertina wizard John Williams, and the
band Celtic Thunder. In June 1999, Patrick joined the Tulla Ceili Band on
their last U.S. tour, and for the past three years has been regularly performing
with former Tulla Ceili Band accordion player Andrew McNamara. In recent
years, however, Patrick's main concert partner has been Gearóid ÓhAllmhuráin,
a renowned County Clare concertina player now living in Saint Louis. Together
with Gearóid, Patrick has performed in concert and at festivals all
across Europe and North America. In 1999, they released Tracin',
a critically acclaimed duet recording faithful to the style and repertoire
of the older generation of traditional musicians in Clare and East Galway.
Patrick is also featured on flute player Cathal McConnell's last solo album,
Long Expectant Comes At Last, released in February 1999 on the Compass
Records label, and on accordion player John Whelan's Celtic Roots,
released in February 2002 on the Narada label. Patrick also appeared with
a host of local musicians on Music and Songs from East Clare - Volume 1,
an archival recording made as a part of the Millennium Project to preserved
and collect folklore in that part of Ireland.
For the last ten years, Patrick has been in great demand as a teacher and
regularly teaches out of his home in Brooklyn. He has taught at various festivals
in the U.S. and Canada, such as the Chris Langen Weekend in Toronto; the Saint
Louis Irish Festival, and the Augusta Irish Week in Elkins, West Virginia;
and at the Fleadh Nua in County Clare, Ireland.
Patrick now plays in the band ‘Chulrua’ with Paddy O’Brien and Pat Egan.
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