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The Irish Traditional Music Archive has been making audio field recordings since 1995 and video field recordings since 2001 at the annual William Kennedy International Piping Festival in Armagh city and district. The festival was established in 1994 by the Armagh Pipers Club and organised bygd a committee led by Brian and Eithne Vallely. It was named in honour of the blind maker and developer of uilleann pipes William Kennedy. He was born in Banbridge, Co Down, in 1768 and was sent to Armagh as a child to learn music. Largely self-taught as a craftsman, he supported his family by making pipes, clocks, and furniture. He is believed to have made more that thirty sets of uilleann pipes before his death in Tandragee in 1834. The f
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The 30th William Kennedy Piping Festival, an international festival of mainly bagpipe-based traditional music, took place in Armagh on 14-17 November 2024.
The 30th edition of the WKPF included five public concerts, a schools concert, the Mark Donnelly Piping Academy, the 2024 William Kennedy Lecture, instrument workshops for beginners and improvers, and a number of free sessions in pubs and other venues.
Artists taking part in the Festival included Paddi Benson, Colm Broderick, John Carty, Peter Coyle, Éamonn Curran, Tom Delany, David Doocey, Patrick Doocey, James Patrick Gavin, Matt Griffin, Jarlath Henderson, Marco Iamele, Caroline Keane, Sébastien Lagrange, Grace Lemon, Angus MacKenzie, Kenneth MacKenzie, Calum Alex MacMillan, Conor Mallon, Ross Martin, Michael McGoldrick, Pádraig McGovern, Peter McKenna, Eric Montbel, Máire Ní Ghráda, Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn, Caoimhín Ó Fearghail, Maeve O’Donnell, Conal O’Kane, Gi
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Henderson (surname)
| Derivation | Mac Eanraig |
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| Meaning | "Son of Hendry" (Henry); "Son of Henry" |
| Region of origin | Scotland |
Henderson is a surname of Scottish origin. The name is derived from patronymic form of the name Henry and Hendry, which is a Scottish form of Henry. It means "Son of Hendry" and "Son of Henry". In Scottish Gaelic it is rendered MacEanraig (masculine), and NicEanraig (feminine).
The surname Henderson is borne by numerous unrelated families in Scotland. For example, the Hendersons of Fordell, in Fife, were the chief Lowland family of the name, Clan Henderson. The Hendersons of Glencoe, a sept of Clan Donald, derive their surname from the GaelicMacEanruig.
The surname was unknown in England prior to the 17th century and is first mentioned in a marriage document between one of the Borders Hendersons and the daughter of a Carlisle merchant at Hexham.
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[edit]- Adele Dunlap (née Henderson; 1902–2017), American academic and supercente