# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mairead-nesbitt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:24:41.883Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mairead-nesbitt"
name: "Máiréad Nesbitt"
slug: "mairead-nesbitt"
description: "Máiréad Nesbitt is an Irish musician. She is known for performing Celtic and classical music and being the former fiddler for Celtic Woman. She was also one of the two original fiddlers in Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance in the mid to late 1990s, along with its extended version Feet of Flames in the early 2000s."
tagline: "Irish Celtic, Classical and World solo violinist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mairead_Nesbitt_at_MacQuarie_Centre_02.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1979-04-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.2
  momentum:             0.6666666666666665
  historical:           13.60072533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/__hibernia__/"
    handle:    "__hibernia__"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/maireadnesbittcelticviolinist"
    handle:    "maireadnesbittcelticviolinist"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0626366/"
    handle:    "nm0626366"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.maireadnesbittviolin.com"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "مايرياد نيسبيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Máiréad Nesbitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Máiréad Nesbitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Máiréad Nesbitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Máiréad Nesbitt"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Máiréad Nesbitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Máiréad Nesbitt"
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    title: "Máiréad Nesbitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Máiréad Nesbitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Máiréad Nesbitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump