"Professional Musician & Music Teacher"
My name is Mat Walklate. I'm a professional musician and music teacher and this website will provide details of the many bands and musical ventures with which I am involved.
My main instrument is the harmonica. I play diatonic, chromatic and tremolo in all styles of music, but predominantly Blues and Irish traditional music.
I sing and play harp in a blues duo with Sicilian guitarist Paolo Fuschi www.walklateandfuschi.com and I play harp with Tom Attah & The Bad Man Clan
In Irish traditional / Bluegrass band The House Devils I sing and play harmonica, flute & uilleann pipes www.thehousedevils.co.uk
I play harmonica and flute in the band Rosenblume
I teach harmonica privately, including via Skype and I have recently filmed two harmonica courses, available online Here
One day back in 1930s Dublin, Matt's grandma Mary Fahey was walking down Rialto Street when she stopped to chat to a neighbour.
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Established in 1847, which makes it the oldest harmonica manufacturer in the world. Major investment in the company over the last five years has made Seydel into a world class producer of harmonicas.
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Mat and Sicilian blues guitarist and singer Paolo Fuschi met in Manchester in 2014. United by a love of all styles of blues from the 1950s onwards
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