Representing the fifth generation of uillean pipers in his family, Kevin Rowsome is the grandson of influential piper Leo Rowsome. Although he played clarinet and saxophone with the Artane Boys Band in the early '80s, he's been making up for lost time since switching to the uillean pipes. The winner of numerous prizes at the Oireachtas Festival, Rowsome has alternated between performing solo and collaborating with fiddle player Lorraine Hickey of the Preston family of Sligo. From the age of six, Rowsome received instructions in the uillean pipes from his grandfather. After the death of his grandfather, in 1970, he received lessons from his father, Leon. In 1986, Rowsome left his day job with a Dublin-based computing firm and spent the next two years studying woodwind making at the London College of Furniture. ~ Craig Harris, Rovi