Tomás Ó Canainn (1930 – 15 September 2013[1]) was an Irish Uilleann piper, accordion player, singer, composer, researcher, writer and lecturer in both electrical engineering (principally control engineering) and music.
He was a founder of the group Na Filí with fiddler Matt Cranitch and whistle player Tom Barry in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Ó Canainn's daughters also play, violin, viola and cello and all three appear with him on his last solo release.
Tomás Ó Canainn won the All-Ireland solo piping title and is known as "The Pennyburn Piper".
Hence the title of his album recorded in 1998 with Neil Martin, The Pennyburn piper presents: Uilleann Pipes, on which he also sang.