Desi Wilkinson

Desi Wilkinson hails from Belfast and plays mostly Irish traditional music. He plays concert flute (some fiddle, guitar, pipes and clarinet) and singsl. He pursues academic interests with energy and has written and lectured on Irish Music, Breton music and Celticism, from an ethnomusicologogical perspective, contributing to several significant publications. Desi has worked with most of the major figures in Irish folk music and Breton music and recorded extensively.

He plays concert flute (some fiddle, guitar, pipes and clarinet) and singsl.

He pursues academic interests with energy and has written and lectured on Irish Music, Breton music and Celticism, from an ethnomusicologogical perspective, contributing to several significant publications. Desi has worked with most of the major figures in Irish folk music and Breton music and recorded extensively. He performs both as a soloist and with the group Cran. Other combinations include his duo work with the fiddler Gerry O'Connor, the guitarist Brendan Hearty and the accordionist M?irt?n O'Connor. He has taken part in many inter-ethnic 'musical soups' and has enjoyed them immensely. The most recent of these outings were La travers?e, which was an eclectic fusion of the musical traditions of Ireland, France and Qu?bec and Senegal to Donegal in which the vastly different traditions in Ireland and Senegal were explored by musicians from both cultures.