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British-Irish fiddler

Person · Open Library

Works
25

Top works

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Ireland
Active from
1950
fiddler

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
13,492
Total plays
121,664

Tags

celticfolkfiddleirishworld

Kevin Burke is an Irish fiddler. He was born in London to parents from County Sligo in 1950. He took up the fiddle at age eight, eventually acquiring a virtuosic technique in the Sligo fiddling style. He later became a member of the well known Irish traditional music groups The Bothy Band (in 1976) and Patrick Street (in 1986). He settled in Portland, Oregon in 1979. He has played as a longstanding member of the Celtic Fiddle Festival since their inception in the early 1990's. Burke currently li

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 204,644x

  2. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 66,908x

  3. NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 60,446x

  4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,569x

  5. <i>Coot</i>: model-building tools for molecular graphics

    · 2004 · cited 29,256x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Kevin
Family name
Burke
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
London
Instrument
fiddle
Official website
www.kevinburke.com
Image
Kevin Burke.jpg
Show 4 more facts
date of birth
1950-01-01
Commons category
Kevin Burke
start of work period
1958-00-00
significant person
Arlo Guthrie
Sources (2)

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