About Anita
Anita has taught fiddle-lessons from the age of 16. Since then, she has completed the TTCT and the B.Ed Primary school teaching degree and has made school and music-teaching her career. In 2009, she graduated with first class honours in the MA Irish Traditional music performance at the University of Limerick. She continues to teach and perform fiddle, whistling and piano-accompaniment.
Anita's most memorable experiences include her first week at the Willie Clancy Summer school in Miltown Malbay in 1984, where she was taught by Bobby Casey and John Kelly; winning her first solo All-Ireland title on the Fiddle at Oireachtas na Samhna 1991 in Dingle; playing fiddle and harp as part of the Ceol Chiarraí Tour group which toured Singapore, Australia and North America; winning the senior fiddle fast and slow airs competitions on the same day at Fleadh Cheoil na Mumhan in 1994, and her participation as part of a Munster Comhaltas group at the opening of the Eurovision Song Contest in Milstreet, Co.Cork.
In more recent years, she has become better known as a whistler, having won the All-Ireland Whistling title at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann no fewer than five times. In 2019, she recorded a 5-track E.P. which includes 3 tracks of whistling, some singing and a taste of fiddle-playing.