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Steáfán Hannigan, Multi-instrumentalist Musician. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1965. Moved to England in 1981. Steàfàn plays bagpipes including Uilleann pipes, Highland and Scottish small-pipes, French and English pipes, Gaida and many others. Celtic flute, and other ethnic blown flutes. DADGAD Guitar, Irish bouzouki, mandolin, mandola, 4 and 5 string banjo, other ethnic strummed instruments. Hand percussion including master bodhran player, Djembe, Dahola, Dumbek, other ethnic hand percussion, and Drum kit. Steàfàn Hannigan has produced many albums both at his home studio "Oisìn Studio." named after his son. Steàfàn currently lives in Canada with his wife, Saskia Tomkins, and their three children. Steàfàn Hannigan is the Author of The Bodhran Book and The Low Whistle book, co written with David Ledsom



Bands Band of Hope: an English, politically focused folk quintet with one album: "Rhythm and Reds", and the following lineup: Roy Bailey: vocals; Martin Carthy: vocals, guitar; Steáfán Hannigan: uilleann pipes, half long pipes, whistle, wood whistle, percussion, bodhrán, cittern; John Kirkpatrick: vocals, button accordion, melodeon; Dave Swarbrick: fiddle, mandolin

1994-2001, SinE: an innovative six piece Irish Fusion band. They released two albums on the Rhiannon Records label: "SinE" and "It's about Time", and one on Wicklow Records - Paddy Moloney's label, "Deep Water Dropoff"

Lammas: a jazz/folk fusion band with Tim Garland, Don Paterson, Christine Tobin, Nick France

Lintilla: a six-piece folk fusion band with Murray Granger, Cecelia le Poer-Power: Saskia Tomkins

Album credits include: Bjork Afro-Celt Sound System, Depeche Mode, Gary Barlow, Loreena McKennitt (Book of Secrets: An Ancient Muse: Nights From The Alhambra) Il Divo, Julian Lloyd Webber, Art Turner,

TV credits include: Friends, the TV series - "the one with Ross's wedding": Arranging and playing most of the instruments for the wedding music. Miming the Uilleann Pipes on set. Little known fact, most of the instruments played were Steafans. Multi-instruments on Relic Hunter soundtrack, composed by Donald Quan