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Aoife is a fiddle player and composer from Dublin. She was introduced to traditional music at primary school when she was eight years old and she has been playing ever since.. In 2011 she completed an MA in Music Performance in DIT, writing her thesis on the music of Paddy Cronin and she released an album of her own compositions, Cuas na bhFáinleog/The Hollow of the Swallows in 2013.
She has won numerous awards for her radio and television programmes including an IFTA and Gradaim Chumarsáide an Oireachtais for her television documentary Concerto Caitlín Maude and a Celtic Media Festival award for a special edition of The Rolling Wave featuring Donegal fiddle player Danny Meehan.
As a radio producer she has worked on a wide range of programmes including Arts Tonight, Off the Shelf, Today with Pat Kenny and Sunday Miscellany. She is currently the producer of RTÉ Radio 1’s long running programme Céilí House and since 2018 has presented and produced the weekly traditional music programme The Rolling Wave.
