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- Selections From Riverdance Arranged For Easy Piano
- Selections From Riverdance Arranged For Fingerstyle Guitar
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William Michael Joseph Whelan (born 22 May 1950) is an Irish composer and musician. He is best known for composing a piece for the interval of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. The result, "Riverdance", was a seven-minute piece of original music accompanying a new take on traditional Irish stepdance that became a full-length stage production and spawned a worldwide craze for Irish traditional…
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Bill Whelan (born May 22, 1950) is the Irish composer who composed Riverdance, a piece for the interval of the Eurovision Song Contest. It was a ten-minute display of traditional Irish dancing that eventually became a full-length stage production and spawned a worldwide craze for Irish dancing and celtic music. Whelan is a native of Limerick, and was educated at Crescent College, University College Dublin and the King's Inns. He worked as a pianist for The Waterboys during their Fisherman's Blu
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bill
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Limerick
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Riverdance
- Genre
- Irish folk music
- Instrument
- piano
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- date of birth
- 1950-05-22
- member of
- Aosdána
- start of work period
- 1970-00-00
- name in native language
- Bill Whelan
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