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Aiden Walsh

Aiden Walsh is a banjo player hailing from Tubbercurry in South Sligo, an area renowned for its unique style of Traditional Music. His foray into traditional Irish music began at a young age, he started on the whistle but later moved onto the Tenor Banjo, mainly learning from Tommy Finn, Peter Horan and Paddy Ryan. Aiden moved to Belfast in 1995, and has been a regular on the local traditional scene since . He has played with various bands throughout Ireland and Europe and has also performed on both radio and television programmes on BBC and TG4. Aiden is a former tutor at the South Sligo Summer School, the Andersonstown School of Music and the McPeake School of Music and is in his second year teaching with the Belfast Traditional Music Society.

Check out my videos below that I am currently teaching in my classes…