Video Clips
This page features video clips of Martin Doyle and various musicians playing Martin Doyle flutes.
Martin Doyle
Below: This video features Ronan Browne (Uilleann pipes) and Martin Doyle (one of his own cocus D flutes).
Tune: Kitty Got A Clicking Coming To The Fair (jig).
Below: Martin Doyle playing one of his own flutes that he had just serviced for a customer.
Tune: Unknown.
Below: This video clip features Martin Doyle playing Father O'Flynn on the mandolin during a visit to New Zealand in 2014/15. He is accompanied by Jade Bell (bodhran) and John Wood (guitar) while visiting them at their home near Lake Ellesmere in Canterbury. Obviously Martin is not playing a flute but this clip does offer a taste of his diversity as a musician and his music-heart.
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Ronan Browne and Desi Wilkinson
Below: This video features Ronan Browne and Desi Wilkinson playing Martin Doyle D flutes during a CRAN performance.
Tune: Erin Grá mo Chroí.
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Desi Wilkinson
Below: This video features Desi Wilkinson playing a Martin Doyle D flute at the Augusta Heritage Center Irish Week in 2016.
Tunes: Jackson's Toddy and The Battering Ram (both jigs).
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Eimear McGeown
Below: Eimear McGeown performs a beautiful waltz by Brian Finnegan called Last of the Starrs. Eimear is playing a Martin Doyle keyed flute made of Brazilian rosewood and is accompanied by Jonny Toman on guitar.
Below: Eimear McGeown performs May It Be a song co-written and performed for Peter Jackson's 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring' by Irish recording artist Enya. Eimear is playing a Martin Doyle keyless C flute made from African Blackwood and is accompanied by Jonny Toman on guitar.
Below: Eimear McGeown playing a reel with her original flute teacher Séamus Tansey. Eimear is playing a Martin Doyle keyless traditional Irish D flute.
Tune: Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrel (reel).
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Joe Doyle
Below: Joe is playing a Martin Doyle D flute made of Brazilian rosewood.
Tune: The Flute Maker Martin Doyle (jig) – composed by Joe.
Below: Joe is playing a keyed Martin Doyle D flute made of African blackwood.
Tune: The Green Fields of Rosbeigh (reel).
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Brian Morgan
Below: Brian is playing a Martin Doyle D flute made of Boxwood.
Tunes: Unknown (reels).
Below: Brian is playing a keyed Martin Doyle D flute made of African Blackwood.
Tunes: Unknown (reels).
Below: Brian is playing a keyed Martin Doyle D flute made of African Blackwood.
Tunes: Unknown (jigs).
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Ellen O'Brien
Below: All Ireland champion flute player Ellen O'Brien of County Cavan performs a lovely reel while doing work experience at the Celt offices prior to the 2018 County Fleadh in Kilnaleck. She is playing a keyed Martin Doyle flute made of African Blackwood.
Tune: The Morning Thrush (reel).
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Brian Finnegan
Below: Brian Finnegan performs his own slow air with Russian folk/rock musician Purushottama Boris Grebenshikov and his band Aquarium. Brian is playing a Martin Doyle keyless D flute made of African Blackwood.
Tune: Last of the Starrs (waltz).
Ciarán Mac Fheidhlimidh
Below: Irish traditional music played by Ciarán Mac Fheidhlimidh on a Martin Doyle flute. (For the record, the picture of the flute featured as a still in the video clip is not a Martin Doyle flute.)
Tunes: The Bag of Spuds and The Boys on the Hilltop (both reels).
Seamus Tierney
Below: All Ireland winner Seamus Tierney plays two reels on a keyed Martin Doyle D flute.
Tunes: Kiss The Maid Behind The Barrel (reel) and The Morning Thrush (reel).
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Barry Conaty
Below: All Ireland winner Barry Conaty playing a Martin Doyle D flute made of African Blackwood.
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Ivan Pustovalov
Below: This video clip features Ivan Pustovalov of Russia playing reels on a Martin Doyle D flute at a New Year's concert (2012) in Saint Petersberg.
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Satoko Nishikawa
Below: Satoko Nishikawa (playing a Martin Doyle flute) and Riko Matsuoka (harp) of Japan performing Irish traditional music.
Tune: Land's End (slip jig).
Hatao
Hatao (Tomoaki Hatakeyama) lives in Takarazuka, Japan, and has been playing Irish flute since the late 1990s. He also teaches, writes tutorial books and sells Irish wind instruments, including Martin Doyle flutes. Hatao's websites: IrishFlute.info – Celtnofue.com – Tomoaki Hatakeyama at Sound Cloud.
Below: Hatao playing a Martin Doyle keyless D flute.
Tune: The Battering Ram (jig).
Michael Kenneally
Below: Michael Kenneally (playing a Martin Doyle flute) performing Irish traditional music.
Tune: The Emigrant's Farewell.
Leonora Lyne
Below: Leonora Lyne playing a Martin Doyle B flute. Completely his own design, Martin has made very few of these B flutes.
Tune: Tatter Jack Walsh (jig).
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Molly Pittendrigh
Below: Molly Pittendrigh playing a Martin Doyle flute. Molly won first place in the '15-18 flute' and third place in the '15-18 flute, slow air' competitions at the 2022 Fleadh Cheoil Mullingar in County Westmeath.