{"id":2517,"date":"2019-02-13T13:04:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T13:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2025-10-27T03:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:44:34","slug":"ellen-obrien-plays-a-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/2019\/02\/13\/ellen-obrien-plays-a-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen O&#8217;Brien Plays A Reel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2014 we <a title=\"Ellen O\u2019Brien Playing A Martin Doyle Flute | News - Martin Doyle Flutes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/2014\/01\/11\/ellen-obrien-playing-a-martin-doyle-flute\/\">featured Cavan flute player Ellen O&#8217;Brien<\/a> after she had won the Ulster Flute Under 12 competition for dance tunes and slow airs playing a Martin Doyle Flute. Ellen then went on to win the All-Ireland competitions in her age group soon afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four years later a video clip of Ellen playing the Tom Ennis reel <a href=\"https:\/\/thesession.org\/tunes\/967\">The Morning Thrush<\/a> was posted on Youtube. At the time Ellen was doing a work experience stint at the Celt Centre prior to the June 2018 County Fleadh Cheoil in Kilnaleck, County Cavan. Ellen is playing a keyed Martin Doyle Flute made of African Blackwood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ellen O Brien Butlersbridge on flute\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pyVJ9NCkaF4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@martindoyleflutes7588\">Martin Doyle Flutes | Youtube \u00bb<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014 we featured Cavan flute player Ellen O&#8217;Brien after she had won the Ulster Flute Under 12 competition for dance tunes and slow airs playing a Martin Doyle Flute. Ellen then went on to win the All-Ireland competitions in her age group soon afterwards. Four years later a video clip of Ellen playing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,217,86,4,231,5,7,11],"tags":[696,162,65,144,163,23,697,146,570,695,694],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-blackwood","category-dance","category-flute-players","category-irish-traditional-music","category-keyed-flutes","category-martin-doyle-flutes","category-musicians","category-video-clips","tag-cavan","tag-cheoil","tag-county","tag-ellen-obrien","tag-fleadh","tag-flute","tag-kilnaleck","tag-player","tag-reel","tag-the-morning-thrush","tag-tom-ennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","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=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3144,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}