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MichaelWalshflute.bsky.social

@michaelwalshflute.bsky.social

Doctor Ethnomusicology/ Whistles Club Sheffield, Wooden flutes. Irish traditional music. Teacher. Specialist in Music of the Irish in Britain y La Música Asturiana. Gaeilge. Asturianu. www.michaelwalshmusic.com Sheffield dwelling Mancunian. Quarehawk

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Whistles club #Sheffield @dogandpartridge.bsky.social tonight 6.45pm. Learn #Irishfolkmusic on #Tinwhistle #lowwhistle & #woodenflute . Message me for details. Trust me, I'm a doctor x

04.03.2026 11:40 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Learn #irishfolk & #celticmusic on #Tinwhistle #lowwhistle in #sheffield @dogandpartridge.bsky.social . 6.45pm Wednesdays in the snug. Beginners welcome. Message me for details

03.03.2026 13:24 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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'Pottery From The Top Shelf' - an excerpt of a new 'Slide' tune written especially for @michaelwalshflute.bsky.social

© 2026 Stuart Young

#whistle
#flute

16.02.2026 17:10 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

A lovely friend and student @flugelstu.bsky.social wrote this great slide. #hup

16.02.2026 17:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lovely lesson and @flugelstu.bsky.social wrote me a lively slide. Thankyou x

28.01.2026 23:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Great group tonight @ #WhistlesClub @dogandpartridgesheffield . Thanks everyone. beginners and some improvers. Learning #irishtraditionalmusic on #tinwhistle #lowwhistle & #woodenflute. £10 per session. Or pay what you can afford. Message me for further details. Thanks Conor and team for hosting us

28.01.2026 22:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to teaching in #Meersbrook #Sheffield. Thanks @flugelstu.bsky.social

27.01.2026 13:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I better practice too!

27.01.2026 13:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Learn #Irishtraditionalmusic on #tinwhistle #lowwhistle or #flute @ Whistles Club #Sheffield. Starts this Wednesday 28th Jan @6.45pm . £10 or pay what you can afford. Bring your own D whistle or flute. Message me for further details or email info@michaelwalshmusic.com

26.01.2026 21:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thanks to Mike Garry for buying a #tinwhistle #lesson voucher for the Brilliant Rose Marley in #Manchester. She learned a Jig. She has the #nyah. #Irishtraditionalmusic #folk. www.michaelwalshmusic.com

24.01.2026 19:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@dogandpartridge.bsky.social

20.01.2026 23:15 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Whistles Club #Sheffield is back. Learn & improve #Tinwhistle #Lowwhistle #flute in a group setting. £10 per session. Message for further details. #Irishmusic #folkmusic #trad #lessons

23.01.2026 12:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@dogandpartridge.bsky.social

20.01.2026 23:15 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Whistles Club is back DOG AND PARTRIDGE Sheffield S1. Every Wednesday 6.45pm-7.45pm starting 28th January. #Tinwhistle #Lowwhistle #Flute. #GroupLessons #Beginnerswelcome. £10 per session (concessions available). Contact Michael @ info@michaelwalshmusic.com #Irishmusic #folk #Trad #Sheffield

20.01.2026 22:21 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Dear David Willis @ the BBC, award winning #Goldenglobe actor #JessieBuckley is not a Brit. Please try harder. #Thebritsareatitagain

12.01.2026 08:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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1st run of year. Checked in to the motherland @EmbassyofIreland . They were shut. #Runner

02.01.2026 10:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A great place to practice #tinwhistle @ #LincolnCathedral. #Sheffield #Whistlesclubs returning in January. Watch this space #Tinwhistle #Lowwhistle #flute #Irishmusic #Trad #folk

27.12.2025 15:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Walsh works do in full swing. Tayto and club orange @dogandpartridge.bsky.social with handsome Conor. Coffee & Canoli @ brigazzis. Thanks to all who took lessons from me, played music with me, booked me & helped me over the PhD line. Feeling blessed. Present to myself, Mike Joyce book

24.12.2025 14:59 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Excellent. Just realised I saw yiu in Heeley Lidl the other week. I thought your face was familiar

17.12.2025 09:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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JohnReedBreathe JohnReedBreathe is on Mixcloud. Listen for free to their radio shows, DJ mix sets and Podcasts

The Compendium airs at 8pm (UK) on Wednesdays on www.folkfridayradio.com If you enjoy some of the songs please buy them as well as streaming. Music is not for free. Someone spent time and effort creating it for you to enjoy.

Listen again at www.mixcloud.com/JohnReedBrea...

17.10.2025 06:13 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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John Reed John released "A Proliferation Of Pointlessness" in August 2025, in part to highlight the truth of what it's like to be an independent musician. Widely travelled, experienced in life and hugely curio...

#BandcampFriday is this Friday 3rd October. These are my bandcamp pages:
johnreed.bandcamp.com
johnreedalikarim.bandcamp.com
johnduncanreed.bandcamp.com
nightsong.bandcamp.com
Whether you do or whether you don't check these pages, please support other independent musicians.

03.10.2025 05:37 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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10km Sheffield in 56 mins 15 secs. Well under my hour target. My beautiful & clever coach in all things in life Dr Sarah Dalrymple got me running again as part of my hand rehab. Slowly getting there #runner

28.09.2025 11:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Ciellepi - The Cliff (feat. Michael Walsh)
YouTube video by Ciellepi Ciellepi - The Cliff (feat. Michael Walsh)

We've had lots of lovely feedback about our collaboration. Give it some love a rock / trad cross over and an interesting tale about a visit to #Ireland. please share
youtu.be/5X0t7OmGfBg?... #Italian #Rock #TradIrish #Woodenflute #ManchesterIrish #heartbreak #lovesongs

27.09.2025 14:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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@gravesparkrun done this morning. Legs felt heavy but I'm getting fitter. My hand is slowly #healing. #runner #musician

20.09.2025 08:51 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Slow steady healing and self care. Managed 30 mins on the #Tinwhistle & 5 mins on the flute without pain. Getting there. #runner #Musician

03.09.2025 12:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EPISODE 8: "The idyll of the summer holidays where anything was possible was disappearing like the smoke coming out of the steam train’’ There's A Lot I Haven't Asked · Episode

A powerful piece of work. Delighted to be part of it & some of my work getting an outting. open.spotify.com/episode/15S7... #2ndGenerationIrish #IrishinBritain

20.07.2025 09:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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There's A Lot I Haven't Asked Podcast · Hannah Donelon · An immersive audio series revolving around powerful stories of resilience, belonging, and community from the Irish in Manchester. In 1971, the Irish made up the largest migr...

A fabulous podcast about the #Irish in post world war 2 #Manchester. My mum is on the early episodes and I talk about my 2nd gen Irish experiences too. It's a beautiful piece of work. Dip in and give it a share. open.spotify.com/show/296D55v...

14.07.2025 18:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A brighter day today. Amazing what a good sleep and a run on a sunny day van do. Slowly healing my wrist by making my whole body stronger. #flute #rsi

08.07.2025 09:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EPISODE 6: ''I would love to waltz with my mum again'' There's A Lot I Haven't Asked · Episode

A beautiful piece of oral history of the #ManchesterIrish by Hannah Donelon. Honoured to be part of it. #IrishinBritain. I have a wee cry, joyful sorrow, at every episode. #Irishmusic. Happy memories of work at Irish Community Care #countryIrish open.spotify.com/episode/7HMY...

06.07.2025 10:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EPISODE 5: ''As my Dad said, boots or no boots, I'll be there'' There's A Lot I Haven't Asked · Episode

A lovely episode focusing on #secondgeneration #Irish in #Manchester. Lovely. #IrishinBritain open.spotify.com/episode/0zPK...

29.06.2025 10:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0