{"id":1759,"date":"2014-12-04T04:32:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T04:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2025-10-28T01:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:42:43","slug":"eimear-mcgeown-accepts-a-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/2014\/12\/04\/eimear-mcgeown-accepts-a-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Eimear McGeown Accepts A Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wee note highlighting a Facebook post by the brilliant Irish flautist <a title=\"Biography | Eimear McGeown - Classical and Irish Flute\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eimearmcgeown.com\/\">Eimear McGeown<\/a>. Eimear was recently challenged by her sister Erin to participate in the &#8216;<a title=\"Trad Tune Challenge : Walk in My Shoes - supporting young adults with mental health\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/news\/community\/the-trad-tune-challenge-launched-to-raise-awarness\">Trad Tune Challenge<\/a>&#8216; which aims to raise funds for the <a title=\"St. Patrick\u2019s Hospital Foundation | Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stpatsfoundation\/\">St. Patrick\u2019s Hospital Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the challenge Eimear plays a lovely slow air on a recently completed keyed <a title=\"About Irish Flutes | Martin Doyle Flutes\" href=\"\/irish-flutes.html\">Irish flute<\/a> made by <a title=\"About Martin Doyle | Martin Doyle Flutes\" href=\"\/about.html\">Martin Doyle<\/a>. To hear the piece, click on the image below&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_156\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eimearmcgeownflute\/videos\/816919688349227\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156\" title=\"Eimear McGeown playing a slow air on a Martin Doyle keyed flute for her Trad Tune Challenge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/eimear-mcgeown-trad-challenge.jpg\" alt=\"Eimear McGeown\" width=\"625\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/eimear-mcgeown-trad-challenge.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/eimear-mcgeown-trad-challenge-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/eimear-mcgeown-trad-challenge-624x392.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eimear McGeown playing a slow air on a Martin Doyle keyed flute for her Trad Tune Challenge<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wee note highlighting a Facebook post by the brilliant Irish flautist Eimear McGeown. Eimear was recently challenged by her sister Erin to participate in the &#8216;Trad Tune Challenge&#8216; which aims to raise funds for the St. Patrick\u2019s Hospital Foundation. For the challenge Eimear plays a lovely slow air on a recently completed keyed Irish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,58,9,4,7],"tags":[126,130,598,22,597,23,595,594,36,25,38,146,596,127,593,129,37],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flute-players","category-ireland","category-irish-flutes","category-irish-traditional-music","category-musicians","tag-air","tag-charitable","tag-charity","tag-eimear-mcgeown","tag-erin","tag-flute","tag-foundation","tag-hospital","tag-irish","tag-martin-doyle","tag-music","tag-player","tag-sister","tag-slow","tag-st-patricks","tag-trad-tune-challenge","tag-traditional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}