Nicole Rabata spent several years near the West Coast of Ireland, where she performed and taught Irish traditional music on the wooden flute. She has appeared on main stages with the award-winning Irish group Devana at international festivals such as the Hebridean Celtic Festival on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland (opening for Capercaille); the Festival Interceltique du L’Orient in Brittany, France; the World of Music and Dance Festival in Reading, U.K.; and the African Celtic Experience Festival in Wales. She has performed at the Hammersmith Irish Center in London and has been aired on French National Television and on BBC Glasgow. Currently Nicole performs throughout New England with the World Flute Trio, featuring Phil Nyokai James on the shakuhachi and Carl Dimow on Klezmer flute. Nicole is in the process of recording a solo CD that will feature traditional Irish, Breton, and French Canadian music in addition to her own original compositions. She plays on a Patrick Olwell African Blackwood Pratten-style flute.
Links to Irish flute pages:
www.woodenflute.com
www.firescribble.net/flute/
www.mcgee-flutes.com/
www.thesession.org
www.chiffandfipple.com/indexbo.html
http://www.caseyburnsflutes.com