The 2005 Tionól
The 2005 Tionól was held May 21st and 22nd and featured David Power and Tommy Martin. David is from Waterford, Ireland, and is an All-Ireland Champion on the pipes. Tommy is from the Dublin area and is a great piper and will be teaching our reed-making workshop. For more information contact the club at

The event and concert were held at the beautiful College of Visual Arts, 344 Summit Ave. in the heart of the historic Cathedral Hill neighborhood in beautiful Saint Paul, Minnesota. Summit Ave is home to the longest stretch of Victorian homes and architecture in North America!

Below you can view footage from the Saturday evening concert.

David Power hails from County Waterford, Ireland. He started learning Irish traditional music on the whistle at an early age until it was suggested that (at age 10) he take up the pipes. He was a student of the renowned piper Tommy Kearney, and continued his studies with pipers Jimmy O'Brien-Moran and MacDara MacDoncha. His other influences were Felix Doran, Seamus Ennis, Leo Rowsome and Patsy Touhy. In 1992 David won the Senior All-Ireland Piping Championship as well as the Oireachtas Piping Competition. He served as the Irish Representative Uilleann Piper to the L'Orient InterCeltic Festival in 1993. He has been a featured concert performer at the Willie Clancy Summer School and has numerous radio and television appearances to his credit. David has compiled, edited and produced a seminal recording and biography of his mentor Tommy Kearney, and is completing work on his first solo cd.

David currently is based in New Jersey from where he pursues an active career of teaching and performing throughout North America and Europe.

Tommy Martin began his piping journey at age 12. Just four years later he won his first competition at the Annual Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann. Tommy's career as a pan-continental uilleann piper and instructor
began in 1996 with his move to Hong Kong where he performed in numerous pubs. He has since performed in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Singapore, and Tokyo. He has performed all over Europe as well. Tommy has been one of the pipers in the touring company of "Riverdance". Tommy's first cd, "Tommy Martin Uilleann Piper", was released in 2002. He is completing work on his next cd project.

Tommy resides in St. Louis, Missouri where he teaches and performs. Tommy also plays a variety of other instruments including whistle, flute and violin.