And then the Galician pipes are in the middle.” “Then you have on the other side the Irish pipes, which are very mellow. “The Scottish pipes are very powerful they are the fire,” says Núñez, who releases his 11th album, “Inter-Celtic,” on Tuesday.
In performances and on his own 10 albums, Núñez has widely popularized the sound of the Galician pipes, which have a smoother, lighter tone than the Scottish bagpipes and also sound distinctively different from the uilleann pipes, the national bagpipe of Ireland. So this is why maybe many people in America say 'Carlos is like the Jimi Hendrix of the pipes.'” It's a powerful instrument that has this kind of sound that's very electric. “One of the things I learned is that the Galician pipes, the gaita, are the electric guitar of the Middle Ages. In the United States, rock performers were so captivated by Núñez's sound that they dubbed him “the Jimi Hendrix of the pipes,” he says. And Núñez appears on three other Chieftains albums in addition to “Santiago.” Núñez first performed with The Chieftains in a 1994 concert at Carnegie Hall that celebrated Who singer Roger Daltrey's 50th birthday. that says the Irish come from Galicia, from the northwest of Spain.” And the Scottish masters of piping say that Scotland and Ireland received the pipes from Galicia centuries ago. “The Galician pipes have seen 1,000 years of history. “They loved the fact that the pipes from Ireland and from Scotland come from Galicia, from the northwest of Spain,” Núñez says. In a phone call from Miami, where he began a tour of North America on Wednesday, Núñez said The Chieftains embraced the northwest region of Spain for its Celtic music and for its heritage in influencing the music of Ireland and other parts of the Celtic world centuries ago via boats. Where: University Auditorium, 333 Newell DriveĪnd Núñez - who returns to Gainesville on Friday for a performance with his own band at University Auditorium - is considered Galicia's best-known Celtic musician, a virtuoso known around the world for his prowess on the gaita, or Galician pipes, the region's traditional bagpipe. What: Spanish bagpiper performs Celtic music from the northwest of Spain Galicia, whose capital is Santiago de Compostela, is often described as Spain's “Celtic” region, an area so steeped in the music played by The Chieftains that group leader Paddy Maloney called it “the world's most undiscovered Celtic country” in the album's liner notes. The Chieftains called the musician, Carlos Núñez, their “seventh member” after he performed on the group's 1996 album, “Santiago,” a tribute to the region of Galicia in the northwest portion of Spain. His guests on the 2017 North American tour include María Berasarte, a well-known Spanish singer from the Basque country with Galician heritage, a brilliant young Basque accordion player, Itsaso Elizagoien, and a young Galician fiddler Carmen Gallego, who will be playing a 12th-century fiddle.In their 2005 performance at the Phillips Center, The Chieftains introduced a young piper who dazzled the audience with the sweet sound of a different sort of bagpipes.
He and his multi-talented band and guests will dazzle audiences with music, pipers and dancers. Núñez is best-known for his musical virtuosity on the Galician bagpipes, but he’s a musician with countless instruments and enchantments up his sleeves. Definitions of bagpipe noun a tubular wind instrument the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone see more Think you’ve got a good vocabulary Take our quiz. Carlos Núñez, the wildly energetic platinum-selling and Grammy-winning sensation who masterfully fuses Spanish fire and Celtic energy, is making a much-anticipated return to Canada’s West Coast this spring with a new show that further explores the Atlantic corridor of Spain’s Celtic roots that now extend into the new world. The bagpipe player squeezes the bag with his arm as he blows a pipe called a chanter, and in formal situations he might wear a kilt and knee socks. Prepare to be moved - right out of your seat. The Vogue Theatre - 918 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC View Map WhenĠ7-04-2017 20:00 07-04-2017 22:30 America/Toronto Galician Bagpipe Superstar Carlos Nunez Returns to BC Galician Bagpipe Superstar Carlos Nunez Returns to BC Event Ended Where
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