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 WOMAD Festival in Reading, U.K.; the Temple Bar Trad Fest in Dublin 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, NPR Radio and BBC Glasgow. Currently Nicole performs throughout the Northeast with The Milliners, Naia and the World Flute Trio, and teaches a variety of workshops and lessons. Nicole released her debut recording 'Armorica' in 2010, featuring traditional Irish, Breton, Scandinavian and French Canadian music in addition to her own original compositions. She plays on a Patrick Olwell African Blackwood Pratten-style flute and a Gilles Lehart six-keyed 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