NEW VOCAL CD AND A ‘MAJOR INDIVIDUAL ARTIST AWARD’

Her Major Individual Artist award will be used towards a new innovative piece of work currently being produced by Patricia to be staged later in the year thus taking her career to further heights.

APPLAUDED BY THE EXPERTS

Patricia's efforts and talent have not gone unnoticed in the high places of Irish traditional music. Composer and broadcaster Micheál Ó Súilleabháin, founder of the Irish World Music Centre at the University of Limerick and one of Ireland’s best known musicians, praises Patricia as one who is “...reaching back through history and allowing her musical vision to find voice.”

Irish Music Magazine called her “one of Ireland’s most formidable harpers.” And her acclaimed and widely used tutoring manual, The Irish Harp & Song Book (2000), presenting her course of coaching for would-be harpers young and old, carries on its front cover the endorsement of no less a musical giant than Derek Bell, late harpist with the Chieftains.

CHARITY WORK

Recently Patricia joined musicians and artists of many different nationalities from all over Northern Ireland to create a unique and inspiring CD to help raise funds for UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women. Proceeds from the concert tickets and CD sales brought in £3700 for the “Say NO to Violence against Women” campaign.

Patricia’s performances have taken her to countries as diverse as Israel, Bulgaria, Scotland, Wales, Austria and France, on top of numerous workshops and recitals given at home. Her music can be heard regularly on various radio and TV programmes. She provides a warm and gracious musical ambience for many a corporate and private function all over Ireland.