Peadar Mercier

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Peadar Mercier (real name Herbert Peter Mercer ; * 1914 ; † 1991 ) was an Irish musician who was best known as the bodhrán drummer of the Irish folk band The Chieftains .

life and work

Peadar Mercier was born in Cork or Dublin . Mercier's father came from a family of jewelers , watchmakers and silversmiths in Northern Ireland , and his mother's family came from Cork . In the 1920s the family moved to Bray . It was there that Peadar developed his interest in the Irish language and culture. Until the 1950s he was engaged in writing poems and songs and pursued his interest in dancing on céilís, dance events where traditional céilí dances are danced, and in the ballroom in Bray.

Peadar Mercier began playing the bodhrán in the late 1950s . Due to lack of bodhrán players and bodhran makers to Peadar asked a bodhrán itself ago and the bodhrán brought games autodidact in. He became known through his membership in the Chieftains , but also played with their predecessor band "Ceoltóirí Cualann". In 1966, after his predecessor David Fallon was no longer available, Paddy Moloney brought him to the Chieftains as a bodhrán player. In addition to his membership in the band, he continued to pursue his main job as manager of a hardware store until 1974.

The father of ten remained a member of the Chieftains until 1976. Before leaving, he appeared with the band in 1976 on the episode "Hail to the Chieftains" of the television show Camera Three . He can be heard on the albums Chieftains 2 to 5. He was succeeded by Kevin Conneff .

In addition to the Chieftains, he can be heard on an album by Dolores Keane & the Reel Union (There was a maid, 1978) and on the album "Tin Whistles" by Paddy Moloney and Sean Potts (1973).

Together with his son Mel Mercier , also a well-known bodhrán player, he performed with the bodhrán on July 19, 1987, as part of the Proms concert series in the Royal Albert Hall .

Discography

  • 1969 " The Chieftains 2 ", Michael Tubridy , Seán Potts , Paddy Moloney , Martin Fay , Peadar Mercier, Seán Keane
  • 1971 " The Chieftains 3 ", Michael Tubridy, Seán Potts, Paddy Moloney, Martin Fay, Seán Keane, Peadar Mercier
  • 1973 " The Chieftains 4 ", Michael Tubridy, Seán Potts, Paddy Moloney, Martin Fay, Seán Keane, Peadar Mercier
  • 1974 " Tin Whistles ", Paddy Moloney and Seán Potts
  • 1975 " The Chieftains 5 ", Paddy Moloney, Seán Potts, Michael Tubridy, Seán Keane, Martin Fay, Derek Bell, Peadar Mercier
  • 1978 " There was a maid ", Dolores Keane with Martin Byrnes, Peadar Mercier, The Reel Union
  • 1978 “ One Day For Recreation ”, Na Filí and Sean O'Se with Peadar Mercier


Albums with the predecessor group of the Chieftains Ceoltóirí Cualann

  • 1962 " The Playboy of the Western World "
  • 1963 " Racaireacht an Riadaigh "
  • 1967 " Ding Dong "
  • 1971 " Ó Riada sa Gaiety "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d RTE Radio Documentary on One, September 10, 2016
  2. ^ A b Peter Dickinson: CageTalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage . University Rochester Press, Rochester 2014, ISBN 978-1-58046-509-0 , pp. 218 .
  3. ↑ a b The Chieftains - Peadar Mercier. Retrieved June 27, 2016 .
  4. ^ IMDb - Camera Three (1955–1979) - Hail to the Chieftains - Cast. Retrieved September 11, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Dr Mel Mercier BMus, MFA (Cal.), DipEle, MA, PhD on ucc.ie, accessed October 2, 2013
  6. ↑ BBS - Proms - The Worlds Greatest Classical Music Festival - Prom 03. Retrieved September 11, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Mercier, Peadar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mercer, Herbert Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Cork , Ireland or Dublin , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH 1991