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Our 2011 Instructors (instruments, singing and enrichment classes)

ABCs (cyber notation)
Rick Roberts

Basic Sound System Operation
Travis Ener
Russ Alvey

Bodhran
Mark Stone

Bouzouki
Jimmy Crowley

Button Accordion (B/C & C#/D)
Damien Connolly

Class Instrumentalists
Michelle Feldman (for Piano)
Peggy Fleming (for Guitar Fundamentals)
Heather Gilmer (for Dropped-D Guitar)

Enrichment Classes

Composing Tunes
Liz Carroll

From Birmingham to Ballyogan
Kevin Crawford


Gender and Uilleann Piping
Louise Mulcahy


Heritage, Symbol and Performance: The Transformation of the Irish Harp
Michelle Mulcahy

The History of Irish Music Prior to 1900
Damien Connolly

Identity and Accent in Ethnomusicology
Jimmy Crowley

The Music of East Clare
Martin Hayes

Songs: Performance, Accompaniment and Composition
Robbie O'Connell




Stringed Instrument Maintenance and Repair Dave Cory

Teaching Irish Music
Randal Bays

Telling Stories Through Ballads
John Doyle

When New York Was Irish  – The Irish Trad Scene in the 1970s/1980s
Rose Conway Flanagan

Fiddle
Clare Cason (basic)
Bill Cummings (basic)
Liz Carroll (int. & adv.)
Rose Conway Flanagan (int. & adv.)
Randal Bays (int. & adv.)
Martin Hayes (int. & adv.)

Flute
Kevin Crawford


Guitar
John Doyle (Dropped-D Guitar)
Jeff Moore (Fundamentals of Irish Guitar)

Harp
Michelle Mulcahy

Irish Tunes Played Slow
Clare Cason
Janis Deane
Ken Fleming
Peggy Fleming
John Liestman

Irish Tunes Played Up to Speed
Michelle Feldman
Heather Gilmer
David Lovrien
Gordon McLeod
Jeff Moore
Mark Stone

 

 

Keys, Modes and Scales -- Intro to Music Theory for Irish Players
Rick Roberts

Learning by Ear
Kevin Alewine

Mandolin
John Liestman

Piano
Allison Hicks

Singing
Robbie O'Connell

Tenor Banjo
Dave Cory

Tinwhistle
David Lovrien

Uilleann Pipes
Louise Mulcahy