Eoin Duignan

From The Frames

Eoin Duignan is a renowned Irish uilleann piper and low whistle player.

He has been based in Dingle for the last twenty years with his partner Ilonka and their family, and continues to work and tour his music both at home and abroad.

Eoin has released three very highly critically acclaimed CDs of his own compositions: Coumíneol, Ancient Rite and Lumina. He is accompanied on all three CDs by many of Irelands leading musicians including Steve Cooney, Robbie Overson, Robbie Harris, Liam Bradley, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Máire Breathnach, Keith Donald and Trevor Hutchinson.

In 2005 he released a limited edition live CD with Glen Hansard of The Frames recorded live in 2003 at McCarthy’s Bar in Dingle and benefiting the Dingle Hospice Fund.

In the late nineteeen seventies he toured extensively throughout Europe as part of the legendary folk-group The Wild Geese. [1]