William Kennedy Piping Festival 2026, with classes, concerts, sessions, workshops, and lectures.
Passes
Festival pass £60 | Concerts
Academy pass £100 | Classes, concerts, lectures, workshop
Tickets
60 Years of Armagh Pipers Club Concert £25
Uilleann Piping – The Next Generation Concert £10
Festival Concert £20
Uilleann Pipes Concert £15
Small pipes class £25
With James Kinnear, Fin Moore, Sarah Hoy, Kevin Dugas (Cape Breton) & others.
With Fin Moore & Sarah Hoy, and Kevin Dugas.
Only open to schools
£2 per pupil
£25
Featuring: Brian Finnegan, Ríoghnach Connolly, Barry Kerr, Eilís Lavelle, Méabh Smyth, Jack Warnock, The Vallely Family, Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn and others.
Fear a’ tí: Fintan Vallely
With Mark Pollier, Colin O Loughlin, Sinéad Uí Mhurchadha, Fin Moore, Sarah Hoy, Kevin Dugas (Cape Breton), Louise Mulcahy & others.
With Cillian Vallely, Sébastien Lagrange (France), Gaël Rutkowski (France), Fernando Cárcaba (Asturias) & others.
£100
The Mark Donnelly Piping Academy presents an intensive immersion into uilleann piping through graded and themed classes, recitals, lectures, hands-on maintenance and concerts in memory of Armagh Pipers Club’s former uilleann piper, pupil and teacher, Mark Donnelly.
With Louise Mulcahy, Mark Redmond, Sinéad Uí Mhurchadha, Brian McNamara, Marc Pollier (France), Fin Moore. More info
£25
With Fin Moore.
Music sessions will take place throughout the day with tutors and students from Armagh Pipers Club and young musicians from Traditional Arts Partnership South Armagh: all welcome!
£10
With Cadhla Tohill, Tove Byers, Ciarán Murphy, APC senior pipers, James Kinnear, Roisín MacNamara.
With Sébastien Lagrange (France), Gaël Rutkowski (France), Rosie Smyth, Fearghal French, Fernando Cárcaba (Asturias) & others.