Talepipe
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 100 original 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.

Brendan tells a fresh original story each week on community radio WDAR 96Fm on his programme Telling Tales.

The radio programmes are archived and may be heard online

A sample story may be read on the same site at any time.

Brendan Nolan is an experienced storyteller who has been the invited guest of honour at the prestigious Dublin Yarnspinners monthly gathering of storytellers.

He is a member of Storytellers of Ireland.

Brendan has told stories throughout Ireland and in Britain.

He is the author of a collection of his own local stories: Barking Mad: Tales of Lovers, Liars, Loonies and Layabouts.

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."


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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

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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.