September 13, 2022
The Center for Irish Music (CIM) has created the Celtic Cuties songbooks, a series of four music books/CDs—one for each season—that introduce families with young children to Irish traditional music. Created as a take-home resource to support the CIM’s Celtic Cuties parent-participation music classes, the enchanting books/CDs will be released for sale to the general public in 2023.
Until then, you’ll have to sign up for the class! Celtic Cuties fall classes for families with kids ages 0-4 are open for registration, starting October 1st and 3rd.
The Vision
September 2022 marks the culmination of an ambitious two-year project to create a much-needed resource to support song-based music learning at the Center for Irish Music for young children. The project was headed up by CIM executive artistic director Norah Rendell with Celtic Cuties instructor Alisa Potter Mee, and project manager Kate Durbin.
The Books
The delightful songbooks feature original artwork by award-winning artist Suzanne Gaadt (featured artist for the National Wildlife Association) and sheet music with lyrics, chords and translations to the Irish “gaelic” selections.
This project was supported by an anonymous donor who shares our passion for teaching Irish music to young children, and This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.