{"id":771,"date":"2010-01-11T20:15:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T20:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/?p=771"},"modified":"2025-10-29T05:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:13:21","slug":"introducing-the-aiki-ceili-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/2010\/01\/11\/introducing-the-aiki-ceili-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing The Aiki C\u00e9il\u00ed Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_775\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-775\" class=\"size-full wp-image-775\" title=\"Double bass (Frank Healy) and flute (Martin Doyle) in action.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/double-bass-and-flute.jpg\" alt=\"Double bass (Frank Healy) and flute (Martin Doyle) in action.\" width=\"200\" height=\"247\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Double bass (Frank Healy) and flute (Martin Doyle) in action.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As recently posted on this weblog, <a title=\"About Martin Doyle | Martin Doyle Flutes\" href=\"\/about.html\">Martin Doyle<\/a> featured on a radio programme called <a title=\"The Music Tree Airs On Newstalk | News \u2013 Martin Doyle Flutes\" href=\"\/news\/2009\/12\/21\/the-music-tree-airs-on-newstalk\/\">The Music Tree<\/a>. As the The Music Tree is about the Mpingo (African Blackwood) tree and its popular timber that is used extensively for the production of woodwind instruments, one of the requirements for the programme was some Irish traditional music that was predominated by the Irish flute. This task fell upon Martin Doyle to organise.<\/p>\n<p>Asides from making great <a title=\"About Irish Flutes | Martin Doyle Flutes\" href=\"\/irish-flutes.html\">Irish flutes<\/a>, Martin is also an Aikido instructor who offers classes at the town hall in Liscannor, County Clare \u2013 the Aikido group is known as Clare Aikikai (defunct as of 2022). One of the many wonderful aspects of the County Clare is that music is an integral part of the culture there \u2013 musicians, singers and story tellers abound in Clare as they do all over the west of Ireland. And so it is with Martin&#8217;s Aikido group. Four of the members are strong traditional musicians so Martin got them together after an Aikido session one evening and they recorded a very nice piece of traditional music \u2013 and <em>The Aiki C\u00e9il\u00ed Band<\/em> was born!<\/p>\n<p>The Aiki C\u00e9il\u00ed Band consists of Martin Doyle (flute), \u00c9amon McCarthy (flute), Frank Healy (double bass) and Gabrielle Cappachione (guitar). Featured on The Music Tree documentary, the piece consists of two reels and can also be listened to here: <a title=\"The Aiki C\u00e9il\u00ed Band - Flute Music | Martin Doyle Flutes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/music.html#tacb\">The Aiki C\u00e9il\u00ed Band &#8211; Flute Music \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As recently posted on this weblog, Martin Doyle featured on a radio programme called The Music Tree. As the The Music Tree is about the Mpingo (African Blackwood) tree and its popular timber that is used extensively for the production of woodwind instruments, one of the requirements for the programme was some Irish traditional music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,237,58,4,3,6,8,7,147],"tags":[388,391,390,394,389,346,392,65,401,393,395,23,396,397,398,399,328,25,38,400,301,402],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aikido","category-county-clare","category-ireland","category-irish-traditional-music","category-martin-doyle","category-music","category-musical-instruments","category-musicians","category-recently-added","tag-aiki","tag-aikido","tag-band","tag-bass","tag-ceili","tag-clare","tag-classes","tag-county","tag-documentary","tag-double","tag-eamon-mccarthy","tag-flute","tag-frank-healy","tag-gabrielle-cappachione","tag-guitar","tag-introducing","tag-liscannor","tag-martin-doyle","tag-music","tag-radio","tag-the","tag-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}