Dick Hensold & Patsy O’Brien

Dick Hensold & Patsy O'Brien, Auburn House Concerts, 2019.
Dick Hensold & Patsy O'Brien, Auburn House Concerts, 2019.
Dick Hensold & Patsy O'Brien, Auburn House Concerts, 2019.
Dick Hensold & Patsy O'Brien, Auburn House Concerts, 2019.

Sunday afternoon
September 10, 2023
3:00pm (Doors open at 2:30pm)

Auburn House Concerts is looking forward to hosting Dick Hensold (2016, 2019) and Patsy O'Brien (2019) as returning artists.

Traditional Celtic music, but with unique and innovative arrangements, including a variety of songs from Britain and Ireland, accompanied by guitar and Northumbrian smallpipes (a quiet bagpipe from Northeast England), or various whistles. Also featuring traditional tunes from Cape Breton Island, Scotland, Ireland and Northumberland, with a good measure of original music in the traditional style.

Dick Hensold and Patsy O'Brien
Dick Hensold and Patsy O'Brien (2016)
As well as a broad range of styles of Celtic music, this program also features an impressive range of expression, from the jaunty and humorous to soulful, led by Patsy’s warm and multi-colored baritone voice, Dick’s variety of pipes and whistles, and the nimble instrumental virtuosity of both musicians. (Please note that NONE of the various bagpipes used in this concert are very loud.)
Dick Hensold, Northumbrian smallpipes, Scottish reel pipes, whistles and recorder. The leading Northumbrian smallpiper in North America, for the past 20 years, Dick Hensold has performed and taught in England, Scotland, Japan, Canada, and across the United States. He is an active composer, writing both music in the traditional Celtic idiom, as well as more elaborately-scored pieces. This repertoire is featured on his solo CD: Big Music for Northumbrian Smallpipes, released in 2007. He is also a studio musician and theater musician, and is a 2006 Bush Artist Fellow.
“The piping is fluent and assured…his technique is impressive…delightfully interpreted” — FolkWorld CD Reviews
"Long-awaited solo CD from North America’s foremost smallpiper presents Dick’s expressive piping in a variety of settings… Well presented with good notes…" —fRoots May 08, No.299
Patsy O'Brien, vocals, guitar. As well as supplying the driving guitar rhythms of Celtic/World Music diva Eileen Ivers' last European tour, and collaborating with many giants of the Celtic/World music scene (Paddy Keenan and Cathie Ryan among them), award-winning artist Patsy O'Brien hosts guitar workshops all over the country, and NPR saw fit to feature one of his song arrangements on the prestigious All Songs Considered. With 4 critically-acclaimed solo albums under his belt, along with numerous live and studio collaborations, Patsy's songwriting reflects his penchant for seamless genre-hopping, and a strong interest in roots Americana as well as jazz.
Veteran Irish music critic Paul Dromey declared Patsy “Ireland's best-kept musical secret”.

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Dick Hensold & Patsy O'Brien
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Dick Hensold's Northumbrian pipes at AHC May 18, 2016
Dick Hensold's pipes; AHC, May 18, 2016.

Since 2007

Auburn House Concerts (AHC) offers private acoustic performances in an intimate setting at our home in Auburn, Placer County, California.

We began hosting house concerts in the fall of 2007. Our house has a fabulous living room space, with a hardwood floor and high ceiling, that is just made for music. We also know lots of marvelous musicians, so this is a perfect fit.

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