Noel Hill

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Noel Hill (2015)

Noel Hill (* 1958 in Caherea) is an Irish concertina player from County Clare .

life and career

Hill was born in Caherea in western County Clare, Ireland in 1958.

Hill has been a professional musician since the late 1970s. Together with Tony Linnane, Tony Callanan and Kieran Hanrahan he founded the group Inchiquin. Noel Hill and Tony Linnane is still considered one of his best albums to this day.

Hill has toured the world and has in Ireland and the United States , the The Noel Hill Irish Concertina Schools . He lives with his family in Connemara .

In 2008, Hill suffered facial injuries in an attack in a pub and was hospitalized for three weeks. During the proceedings, Hill stated that his ability to play was permanently limited as a result of the attack and that he could only play for a short time.

Trivia

After Hill criticized the band The Pogues in a radio interview, they wrote the song Planxty Noel Hill . The title was published in 1986 on Poguetry in Motion -EP.

Discography

solo

  • The Irish Concertina (1988); "Irish Folk Album of the Year" 1988
  • The Irish Concertina Two (2005)

With Inchiquin

  • Inchiquin (1976)

With Tony Linnane

  • Noel Hill & Tony Linnane Tara Music (1979)

With Tony MacMahon

  • I gCnoc Na Graí (In Knocknagree) (1985)

With Tony Mac Mahon and Iarla Ó Lionáird

  • Aislingí Ceoil - Music Of Dreams (1993)

As a session musician

  • Mairéad Ní Dhómhnaill, Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill (album) (1976)
  • Christy Moore, The Iron Behind the Velvet (1978)
  • Paul Brady, Welcome Here Kind Stranger (1978)
  • Mick Hanly, As I Went Over Blackwater (1980)
  • Planxty, The Woman I Loved So Well (1980)
  • Iarla Ó Lionáird, I Could Read the Sky (2000)
  • Paul Brady, The Missing Liberty Tapes (2001)
  • Paddy Glackin and Micheál Ó Domhnaill, Athchuairt / Reprise (2001)

Anthologies

  • The 4th. Irish Folk Festival (1977)
  • The Green Fields of America (1979)
  • H - Block (1981)
  • Treasury of Irish Song, Vol. 2 (1995)
  • Treasury of Irish Song, Vol. 3 (1995)
  • BLASTA! - The Irish Traditional Music Special (1997)
  • Anglo International (2006)
  • Experience Ireland (2007)
  • All in Good Time: Traditional Irish Folk, Jigs and Reels (2012)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography in English
  2. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Hill, Noel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish concert star player
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Caherea, Ireland