Oisín Mac Diarmada


Oisín Mac Diarmada is an Irish fiddler.

Biography

Oisín Mac Diarmada was born in 1978 in County Clare, and grew up in Crusheen.
He started playing the fiddle from an early age, and began winning competitions at age eight.
He also won Fiddle solo and Duet titles as the All-Ireland Junior Champion at Fleadh Cheoil in 1988.
In 1989, his family moved to County Sligo and Oisín attended the music school in Ballymote. He started studying classical piano at age 14.
In 1999, Oisín won the All Ireland Fiddle Champion at Fleadh Cheoil, and in 2000, graduated Trinity College, Dublin/RIAM.
In 2001, Oisín and his friends including bouzouki/guitar player Seán Mc Elwain, bodhrán player Tristan Rosenstock formed the Irish traditional music group '’Téada.'’
In 2008, the Innisfree Céilí Band he join with brother Cormac and sister Máire became the first band from the North Connacht region to win the All-Ireland Senior Céilí Band Competition at Fleadh Cheoil.
As of 2016, he lived in Coolaney, County Sligo.
With various music playing, he is the director of SCT Traditional Irish Music Examinations at CCÉ, and the Management of his record label Ceol Productions and his music management company Musical Ireland.

Discography

;solo
;with Seamus Begley
;with Brian Fitzgerald and Michael Rooney
;Irish Christmas in America
; Téada
; Innisfree Céilí Band