Haggis Celtic Concerts Presents: Alan Murray & Haley Richardson

917 Louden Avenue,Dunedin FL 34698

27 February, 2021

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Scottish musician & singer Alan Murray is joined by Riverdance fiddle player Haley Richardson for a fantastic night of music and song. We are very pleased to welcome Alan Murray and Haley Richardson to our Scottish Cultural Center. Guitarist, bouzouki player and singer Alan Murray hails from Glasgow, Scotland, where he grew up playing the whistle and later guitar. Eventually moving to New York City, he has established himself as an in-demand performer and teacher on the Irish music scene. He has played and toured around the world with many of the finest traditional musicians and acts today, including Karen Casey, Niall and Cillian Vallely, Eileen Ivers, Colin Farrell, Paul Brock, The Battlefield Band, and FourWinds. Haley Richardson is a virtuosic musician, whose talents extend to the fields of both classical and Irish traditional music. With her highly ornamented Sligo style perfected under the tutelage of fiddler Brian Conway, Haley has garnered a number of prestigious awards and honors, including multiple championships at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann (All Ireland) in Ireland, numerous MidAtlantic Championships, and the coveted Junior (2015) and Senior (2018) Fiddler Of Dooney awards. She has performed with many of the most well-known names in Irish music today including The Chieftains, Altan, Dervish, Mick Moloney, Pride of New York, Liz Carroll with Cherish the Ladies, John Whelan, Paddy Keenan, The Máirtín de Cógáin Project. Haley is a member of Green Fields of American and The John Whelan Band. Haley is currently the fiddler for the 25th Anniversary tour of the Grammy Award winning Riverdance production.