For immediate release March 7, 2006

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Donna Long brings traditional irish music to CCBC Dundalk
Free concert on March 16

 Baltimore County, Md. – It’s the luck of the Irish that Donna Long, one of the most inventive piano players of Irish music in America, will be performing at 11:45 a.m. Thursday, March 16, in the Student Lounge in the K Building at The Community College of Baltimore County, Dundalk (CCBC Dundalk).

This program, sponsored by the CCBC Dundalk Office of Student Activities, is free and open to the community.

Donna Long began taking piano lessons from her father, a jazz classical pianist, at the age of five. The Los Angeles, California native relocated to the Baltimore/Washington in 1978 in a move would change her music. Fiddler Brendan Mulvihill who plays Irish music inspired her to pick up a fiddle and the rest is history. He gave her a solid foundation in Irish music and soon she began accompanying him on the piano. Mulvihill and Long have made two duet albums: The Steeplechase and The Morning Dew. Long was also a guest artist on the motion picture soundtrack Out of Ireland. In 2005, the Smithsonian Institution asked her to represent Irish music in the series Piano Traditions, celebrating 300 years of the piano.

The music tradition has passed from father to daughter to son as Long recently helped her son, Jesse Smith, produce his first solo recording titled The Hurricane.

Join us for Donna Long live at CCBC Dundalk at 11:45 a.m. Thursday, March 16, in the Student Lounge in the K Building.