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Bill Whelan, (born 22 May 1950 in Limerick, Ireland) is an Irish composer and musician. He is best known for composing a piece for the interval of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. The result, Riverdance, was a seven-minute display of traditional Irish dancing that became a full-length stage production and spawned a worldwide craze for Irish dancing and Celtic music and also won him a Grammy. It was released as a single in the UK in 1994, credited to "Bill Whelan and Anúna featuring the RTÉ Concert Orchestra". It reached number 9 and stayed in the charts for 16 weeks. The album of the same title reached number 31 in the album charts in 1995.
Whelan has also composed a symphonic suite version of Riverdance, with its premiere performed by the Ulster Orchestra on BBC Radio 3 in August 2014.
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Albums
Dancing at Lughnasa
The Seville Suite
Popular Songs
- Slip Into Spring / The Harvest
- Heal Their Hearts / Freedom
- Fire Dance
- The Harvest
- Andalucia
- Home and the Heartland
- The Splendid Hat
- Dancing at Lughnasa
- Epilogue
- Don't Leave Me Yet
- Down by the Salley Gardens
- Lough Anna
- A Black Bike
- The Picnic
- A Kiss in the Forest
- Our Secret
- The Blackberry Bush
- The Lughnasa Fires
- Gerry and Christine
- The Road to Ballybeg
- Jack's Arrival
- Monsignor Carlin
- The Gander
- The Kite
- Mystic Seacliffs
- The Deserted Villiage
- Chetvorno Horo
- The Countess Cathleen/woman of the Sidhe
- Illyrian Dawn
- Timedance
