Folk Bands and Artists
Geraldine Cotter
A retired lecturer in Music Education at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Geraldine features regularly on TV, most recently on TG4’s Snugcheol and Slí na mBeaglaoich. In 2019, along with her brother Eamonn, she was the subject of the TG4 documentary Sé Mo Laoch. Geraldine has contributed to the documentaries Céard an Cheoil, Canúintí, Geantrai and Gradam Cheoil TG4. In 2017 she was presented with the MÓRglór Award, for outstanding contribution to traditional music in Co Clare. Geraldine features on over 30 albums including her debut solo album Piano+ Her publications include Transforming Tradition: Irish Traditional Music in Ennis Co. Clare 1950-1980 (2016), Rogha- Geraldine Cotter’s Choice (2008), Geraldine Cotter’s Tin Whistle Tutor (Ossian Publications, 1983) and Seinn an Piano (Ossian Publications, 1996) – which was the first-ever tutor for Irish traditional music for piano. She has contributed articles to The Art of Place: People and Landscape of County Clare, The Companion to Irish Traditional Music and Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. Geraldine earned her PhD from Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Her research interests include: teaching and learning of Irish traditional music, teachers as bridge builders between schools and community, community formation and learning in social contexts. She teaches and performs regularly at summer schools and events internationally such as the Willie Clancy Summer School, the Catskills Irish Art Week, Rencontre Musicale Irlandais in France and Masters of Tradition Bantry House. She is a member of the Boruma Trio and Shaskeen. She also performs with the Irish Concertina Ensemble and the Performing Landscapes Collective. She has performed with musicians such as Peadar O’Loughlin, Maeve Donnelly, Eileen O’Brien, Martin Hayes, Liz Carroll, Joanie Madden, Cherish the Ladies and Joe Burke.
