Brian Fleming plays percussion from around the world, specialising in the traditional Irish percussion instruments the bodhrán and bones and West African percussion. He has recorded on some 30 albums, produced 3, played on several soundtracks for film and tv. He has played with many of the best known innovators in Irish music and dance, including Davy Spillane, Emer Mayock (Afro Celts), Anuna, Michael Flatley, Cormac Breathnach, De jimbe and Kila. He has taught bodhrán and percussion in schools, music schools, universities and festivals all over Ireland, including UCD, UCC, TCD and Waltons School of Music and abroad, in the US, Singapore and Cuba. He has also played in every country in Western Europe, and Scandinavia, in Lithuania, Slovakia, the US, Japan, India, Thailand, Senegal, Gambia and at the World Drum Festival, Seoul (2000, 1, 2, 4) and at the Opening Ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 2002 in Korea. He is credited in the Guinness Book of World Records 2001 as one of the designers of the Millennium Drum, the worldֳ largest drum, built for the millennium Drum Carnival , which he directed. He is co director with Robbie Harris of the Big Bang Festival of Rhythm, www.bigbangfestival.com.

Online Irish Bodhrán courses taught by Brian Fleming

• Bodhrán Basics

Free sample lesson

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