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Talepipe is storyteller Brendan Nolan telling stories and piper Martin Nolan playing tunes in a session that can fill two hours of tunes and tales.

Martin Nolan’s uilleann piping has taken him throughout Europe and the UK, India, Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Canada, from the Lincoln Center for the Arts in New York to the national theatres of Ireland and England and concert halls across the Indian subcontinent.

Respected in the Irish traditional scene, he has also played alongside jazz greats such as Dave Liebman, the late Michael Brecker, Ronan Guilfoyle, Conor Guilfoyle, Tommy Halferty, Michael Buckley and the Boclé Brothers.

Other collaborative work includes virtuoso Hungarian violinist Zoltan Lantos and Japanese performance artist Keiji Heino.

They said:
Martin Nolan’s pipes… caught the eddies, ducking and diving alongside the jazz lines with nervy agility… The wedding of sax and pipes was particularly spectacular.
-- Irish Times (review of Michael Buckley’s Translations)

Martin Nolan is a noted piper and composer whose openness and receptiveness to new ideas has taken him and his pipes around the world.
-- The Sunday Tribune (Dublin)

Well versed in the tradition of his instrument, Martin is constantly expanding its repertoire by playing in unusual contexts.
-- The Event Guide (Dublin).

Hear Martin play online

Brendan Nolan selects stories from a repertoire of more than 200 original and collected stories to suit the audience of the moment.

The stories are of people in any town striving to make sense of the humours of modern life and their place in it.

A sample story may be heard here at any time.

A storyteller of some renown, Brendan selects stories from a repertoire of more than 200 collected and original stories to tell.

The stories are mostly of people in any town striving to make sense of the humours of life and their place in it.

Brendan has told stories all over Ireland; in Britain, Spain, Belgium and in Rome.

He has participated in a record-breaking marathon storytelling session in Guadalajara; told stories in the Baroque Theatre in Toledo; in a Spanish castle; in Dublin's St Patrick's Festival; in YARN in Bray; the Pan-Celtic Festival in Carlow, Greystones Arts Festival, and in venues large and small.

Brendan is the author of the story collections: Dublin Folk Tales, Wexford Folk Tales and the forthcoming Wicklow Folk Tales and of a collection of his own local stories: Barking Mad: Tales of Lovers, Liars, Loonies and Layabouts, originally broadcast on radio.

He is a member of Storytellers of Ireland and an approved Heritage expert in the Heritage Council's primary school visit programme.

They said:

"Great to see an experienced storyteller."

"Brendan is a great storyteller who kept us entertained all the time. He has a great sense of humour."

"Grasping the richness in life what a wonderful session"

"A very thought provoking session."

"The ending was very funny."

"Brendan owned the space as a storyteller."

"The session was a joy to listen to. I loved Brendan's humour."

"Full of such wonderful ideas so well presented."

"Very funny and entertaining and motivating and serious. Brendan is a great thinker and speaker. He is a philosopher."

"A pleasure to listen to. Glad I came tonight."

"Brendan cheered me up with the stories. He was so relaxed and he communicated that to us."

"Reading Brendan's books is more beneficial than a visit to a doctor."

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Contact:
Brendan Nolan 138 Esker Lawns, Lucan, Co Dublin
email
01 628 11 25
087 795 21 74

You can see us perform on tour here

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Brendan is also the author of the bestselling Phoenix Park a History and Guidebook here

and... The Irish Companion here

and... Dublin Folk Tales here

and...Wexford Folk Tales here

and... Wicklow Folk Tales here

click a jacket & order your signed copy for home delivery.

Brendan participates in readings at events, seminars, weekends and summer schools.

He also conducts Telling Your Story seminars for business audiences who need to communicate with the community, clients and crew members to get the message across.