Closed for Independence Day
The Center for Irish Music is closed for Independence Day.
The Center for Irish Music is closed for Independence Day.
Join Alisa and other families to learn the Summer collection of Celtic Cuties rhymes, finger plays, and songs! This class is a great way to introduce your little ones to Irish music and movement.
Join Alisa and other families to learn the Summer collection of Celtic Cuties rhymes, finger plays, and songs! This class is a great way to introduce your little ones to Irish music and movement.
Join Celtic Cuties instructor Alisa Mee for family storytime in Newell Park from 9:30-10:15 am on Saturday mornings this summer on June 18 and July 16. These free programs will feature stories, songs, rhymes, and puppets to encourage early literacy skills and music development. Best for children aged birth to five and their caregivers.
At Irish Music & Arts Summer Camp, kids will meet new Irish music friends, gathering each day to learn songs, try Irish instruments, listen to stories, do arts & crafts, and learn some myths and legends. Camp will also include dance and sports at Newell Park. Instructors will be both senior CIM staff and advanced CIM students.
Irish Music & Arts Summer Camp is open to all, whether you play an Irish or non-Irish instrument (or no instrument at all!). We will have instruments here to try. Bring lunch and one snack each day.
At Irish Music & Arts Summer Camp, kids will meet new Irish music friends, gathering each day to learn songs, try Irish instruments, listen to stories, do arts & crafts, and learn some myths and legends. Camp will also include dance and sports at Newell Park. Instructors will be both senior CIM staff and advanced CIM students.
Irish Music & Arts Summer Camp is open to all, whether you play an Irish or non-Irish instrument (or no instrument at all!). We will have instruments here to try. Bring lunch and one snack each day.
Audition to join the Center for Irish Music's Advanced Youth Ensemble
Irish music is most fun when it is played with friends! Join Brian Miller for the Beginning Ensemble in 2021-22, an in-person class. This first-time mixed-instrument ensemble is open to musicians ages 9-12 who know about 10-15 full-length Irish tunes (jigs, reels, or polkas). This class is a great opportunity to meet new Irish music friends who play different instruments, and to improve your Irish music skills which include learning music by ear, rhythm, pitch and repertoire!
Audition to join the Center for Irish Music's Advanced Youth Ensemble
Open Sky Ensemble celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2022! We have a great variety of instruments right now but are always happy to add more. If you know many tunes and have a fair amount of CIM instruction under your belt, come join this fun Monday evening adult ensemble!
If you are a student who has learned a few tunes, but still feel like you are in over your head when playing with a group, this is the class for you!
You don’t have to be able to play “at speed” or perfectly, the class will accommodate the participants’ skill levels as they progress to the inherent joys of playing music with other people. While our lessons are being conducted online, we will focus on playing with an accompanist or following another melody player. Melody instruments only.
This ensemble is for learning to play together with fellow musicians, challenging one another to learn new tunes and belt them out with great rhythm and style. This ensemble will meet in person and will focus on playing together with other accompaniment and melody players. As a group, the Wren Intermediate Ensemble is non-competitive. Taught by flute player and guitarist Iain Dove McAfee.
Directed by Mary Vanorny and Hannah Flowers, students will learn tunes and arrange them in sets to perform together as a group. This class has a strong focus on building ensemble skills including playing fluently, adding variations, listening to each other, maintaining excellent rhythm, using simple harmonies, preparing for performance, increasing knowledge of traditional Irish music, and having fun with each other and the music!
Pub songs are raucous, tuneful, and above all, fun! But like the most intricate reel, you need skill and a concentrated approach to play and sing them well. Todd will teach the vocal techniques and rhythmic strategies needed to help you stand and deliver these wonderful ballads and drinking songs. All instruments encouraged.
Experience the enjoyment and challenge of playing music with others in a mixed instrument ensemble! Together, the group works on new and old repertoire, with Dáithí Sproule, a world-class instructor and performing musician, as mentor.
Join flute and uilleann piper, Seán Gavin to learn one new tune each week for 4 weeks this Summer. Seán was the winner of the 2016 Seán Ó Riada gold medal in Cork and has a great wealth of tunes. Intermediate and advanced tin whistle players will learn from Seán’s deep understanding of the instrument itself, and his unique way of teaching the stylistic secrets of the Irish tin whistle! Don’t miss this opportunity to study with Seán online in a group setting.
This July, join fiddler Mary Vanorny for a late 'happy hour' session on Wednesdays at 7:15 pm CST, focusing on the Center for Irish Music’s Common Tunes repertoire, as found on our website: https://www.centerforirishmusic.org/resources.
Join Iain Dove McAfee this summer for a continuation of Norah's beginning tin whistle class! The tin whistle is a rewarding Irish instrument and a great fit for young musicians with small hands. We will help your child learn to play jigs, marches and polkas! Parental support of a regular practice routine is expected.
An Luan has been together since 2010, and is always on the lookout for new members - especially melody players on fiddle, pipes or accordion!! This experienced group of musicians has a history of performing regularly around the Twin Cities with a large repertoire of session tunes and not-so-well-known tunes. They strive to play great music together and have fun while they are at it.
We are lucky enough to have an abundance of old stories preserved in manuscripts dealing with Otherworld creatures and legendary kings, queens and heroes. In this class Dáithí and students will be reading translations of the old myths and legends — these always give rise to fascinating and entertaining conversations, often with lessons for the present. This class will be dealing with stories not covered in previous sessions.