Kathleen Loughnane

Kathleen is widely acclaimed for her arrangements and playing of the music of the Irish harpers and the moods in her playing range from the exuberant life of her dance  music to the haunting beauty of her slow airs.  

In 1990 she cofounded the group Dordan, whose distinctive mix of Irish traditional and Baroque music has received international acclaim. Both with Dordan and in her own capacity as a solo musician, she has performed and taught in Ireland and at major festivals in the US, Japan and through out Europe, including the Boston College Gaelic Roots Festival and at the Edinburgh International Harp festival and the Copenhagen Harp festival. She was invited to play at the World Harp Congress in Dublin in 1995.Her arrangements have appeared in various publications and feature on the Harp syllabus of The Royal Irish Acadamy of Music. With Dordan she has released four CDs and she has also released four solo CDs and three books of harp arrangements.

Kathleen plays in a solo capacity for weddings and
also in duo  with her son Cormac who plays Uilleann pipes whistles and
classical flute,or with her daughter Caitriona who plays harp accordian and piano
Caitriona Cannon(BAMus UCC)
Cormac Cannon(MAMus UL) 

Kathleen has been nominated for a Meteor award in the traditional /folk category 2010

Kathleen’s CDs and books are distributed by Claddagh Records and from

Reiskmore Music

8 St. Mary’s Tce.

Taylor’s Hill

Galway

Tel 091523370

Email  kathloughnane@gmail.com