Johnny Doran

Johnny Doran was one of the most influential of Ireland's great pipers. The grandson of travelling piper John Cash and his wife, Polly Connors, a stepdancer, Doran traveled by horse-drawn caravan to share his love of traditional Irish music and his virtuosity on the uillean pipes throughout the Emerald Isle. According to P. J. Curtis, author of Notes from The Heart: A Celebration Of Traditional Irish Music, "My own father saw Johnny play many times at horse and cattle markets in north Clare and used to say it was the most amazing, magical music he had ever heard in his life. H...