The Center for Irish Music
Masterclasses and Workshops
Special to the Center, Winter 2008
February Fiddle Week featuring Denis Liddy and Elvie Miller, February 12-15
Tuition for group classes: $60 each, $90 for two, $120 for three
Tuition for private lessons: $40 for each 30-minute private lesson
Current CIM members recieve 10% off lessons and the concert
February 12:
5-7pm, private lessons available on fiddle, piano and piano accordion.
30-minutes each.
7-9pm, Clare & Ceili Music, open to all instruments, all ages, all
levels.
February 13:
3-5pm, private lessons available on fiddle, piano and piano
accordion. 30-minutes each. Tuition $40
5-7pm, Intermediate Group Fiddle with Denis Liddy.
5-7pm, Advanced Group Dance Music with Elvie Miller. All instruments,
all ages.
7-9pm, Advanced Group Fiddle with Denis Liddy.
7-9pm, Intermediate Group Dance Music with Elvie Miller. All
instruments, all ages.
February 15:
7-10pm, Concert at Kieran's Irish Pub, back room. Cover $10 per person
or $40 per family. Dinner and drinks available. Families
welcome! Note that all students participating in classes during the
week are invited to bring their instrument that night to play along with Denis
and Elvie.
Call 651-493-2022 or email irish.music@comcast.net to register. Registration limited to 12 students per group class!
John Williams Workshops, Saturday December 8
10 - 11am Irish Concertina and Accordion Workshop
Players will benefit from Mr. Williams musicianship and educational background on these unique free reed instruments. Students will learn essential skills heretofore thought to be the domain of percussion, woodwind, and keyboard instruments. Enduring classic tunes will be taught that are as musical as they areinstructional. Tape recorders and open ears required as well as a willingness to chart a departure from students' current developmental plateau to the next phase of music making on Irish Concertina and Accordion.
$25
11am - 12pm Irish Repertoire Workshop
Like all exponents of the vast repertory of Irish Traditional Music, John Williams has forgotten and countlessly rediscovered more tunes than most players have learned. John will not only share an extensive array of classics, essentials, and survivors, but he will also impart his approach to controlling the growth of repertoire while fighting back the decay. Tunes will be selected on the basis of how many miles per gallon a useful session or ceili player would experience under standard operating conditions. Flute and tin whistle players, pipers, concertina and accordion players as well as guitarists, bouzouki players, bodhranists, and piano players are likely to benefit from this compelling and rare one hour workshop.
$25
Special to the Center, Fall 2007
Ceili Band with Paddy O'Brien, Thursday 7-8PM
Classes will meet six Thursdays between September 13th and December 6th.
Learn the repertoire and the style of ceili band ensemble playing from a true master of the art form.
Tuition $150
Songs & Poetry in English and Irish with Daithi Sproule, six Thursdays 7-8
Classes will meet six Thursdays between September 13th and December 6th.
Learn songs in English and Irish, their history and their poetry from the phenomenal guitarist and singer. Tuition $150
September 13, 20, 27, October 4, 11, November 1
The Center is currently working on the upcoming master classes.
Check back soon for more information on upcoming events.
Past Workshops
- John Williams: Repetoire, Accordion, Concertina
- Fintan Vallely: Flute and Tin Whistle
- Patrick Ourceau: Fiddle Masterclass