Fiddle/Fidil - Méabh Smyth & Caoimhe Kearins
Méabh Smyth
Armagh native Méabh Smyth has been playing the fiddle from the age of 7 and is one of many talented young musicians to emerge from the Armagh Pipers Club in recent years. Coming from a musical family, she was inspired when younger by the fiery, rhythmic fiddle playing native to South Ulster and Donegal and she has since developed her own unique style. A distinguished soloist, she was the inaugural Ed Reavy Fiddle Player of the Year as well as being recently crowned the Fiddler of London 2021.
Tá Méabh Smyth ó Ard Mhacha ag seinm na fidle ó bhí sí seacht mbliana d’aois agus tá sí ar dhuine den lear ceoltóirí óga cumasacha a tháinig ó Chlub Píobairí Ard Mhacha le blianta beaga anuas. Tig sí ó theaghlach ceolmhar agus nuair a bhí sí níb óige spreag an tseinm lasánta, rithimeach is dual do dheisceart Uladh agus do Dhún na nGall í agus tá a stíl ar leith féin forbartha ó shin aici. Is ceoltóir aonair céimiúil í agus ba í an chéad Seinnteoir Fidle Ed Reavy na Bliana chomh maith leis an ghradam Fidléir Londan 2021 a fháil.
Caoimhe Kearins
Caoimhe Kearins hails from Collooney, outside the town of Ballymote, Co. Sligo. She is one of the finest exponents of Lilting, Traditional Singing and Fiddle in Ireland. Caoimhe is an immensely talented multi-instrumentalist as well as singer. She is the current Senior All Ireland Fiddle Champion and a former Fiddler of Dooney, following in the footsteps of an illustrious line of previous winners including fellow Sligo fiddle players Seamus Maguire in 1966, his brother Manus in 1970 and Jason McGuinness in 2016.
Tig Caoimhe Kearins ó Chúil Mhuine, taobh amuigh de Bhaile an Mhóta, Co. Shligigh. Is duine de na léiritheoirí is fearr portaireachta, amhránaíochta traidisiúnta agus fidle in Éirinn í. Is seinnteoir il-uirlise agus amhránaí iontach go deo cumasach í Caoimhe. Is í curadh reatha sinsearach uile-Éireann san fhidil í agus iar-Fhidléir Dhúna, ag leanstan lorg líne mhór le rá buaiteoirí roimhe seo, na fidléirí eile ó Shligeach Seamus Maguire in 1966, a dheartháir Manus in 1970 agus Jason McGuinness in 2016 san áireamh.
