Ecki Krupp

Eckehard is a multi-instrumentalist with a background in Irish traditional music who has been performing and recording in a wide range of styles in various bands, duos and on his own over the last forty years.

Being a West Cork resident since 1996 he has been organizing and playing in sessions of traditional Irish music on the Beara peninsula as well as touring in Germany and Austria. From 2008 to 2013 he was chairman and booker for the Michael Dwyer Festival in Allihies.

Since 1996 he has been working with the Allihies Language Centre teaching and lecturing Irish Music to French students through Vacance Musicales sans Frontieres (V M s F).

Since 2014 he is project worker at the Lehanmore Community Centre where he has been teaching music as well as organizing regular sessions, workshops and concerts as well as playing in the Day Care Centre in Castletownbere. Recently he has started teaching open music classes at the Primary school in Castletownbere.

After not being able to play live during Covid 19 he is back playing sessions in Beara as well as playing regularly for the visitors of the Day Care Centre in Castletownbere.  

 

Recordings:  Forgotten Moons, Dursey Sound Project

                       Drops of Rainbow, Music and Fairytales

                       Les Nie mehr Trinken, No more Drinking