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Kevin Burke performance & fiddle workshop, May 1 & 2, 2003, Knoxville, TN
Kevin Burke performance & fiddle workshop, May 1 & 2, 2003, Knoxville, TN
Received this today from Rick who got it from Knoxville's CCE group:
Hello all Irish Music players and fans,
I am sending this message out to a wide audience in an effort to get a feel for interest in a proposed workshop. If you play Irish Traditional music and/or the fiddle or know someone who does, please help pass this along.
Kevin Burke will be performing at the Laurel Theater in Knoxville, TN on Friday evening May 2, 2003. If there is enough interest he will do a fiddle workshop Thursday afternoon/evening May 1, 2003. He needs at least 10 participants. The cost is $35 and the workshop will last about 90 minutes. Now this is not "hands-on" workshop, where everyone brings a fiddle and learns tunes. This is more of a lecture/demonstration workshop, as I understand it. If I can quote from others:
"Kevin does not do workshops where everyone brings their fiddle and tries things out.
Here is what one workshop organizer (Lloyd Gibson from CCE in Houston) said about Kevin's workshop:
"The workshop, the one part that most interested me as a student of Irish
Fiddle, was the best I've ever attended. Kevin was able to articulate
both verbally and by demonstration several KEY technics. These are areas
in which I've had other teachers cover but never correctly nor as well
defined as Kevin did it. I was astounded. We had one fiddler who drove
600 miles from Alpine TX to Houston just for the workshop and who stayed at
my place while here. He was very excited about the workshop, meeting Kevin
and also told me it was the best workshop he had ever attended. He said he
learned more in 90 minutes with Kevin than he did during the entire week at
Swannanoa last year."
So if you are interested in attending this exciting workshop please contact our local CCÉ Branch Chairperson, Herb Williams at will4151@bellsouth.net Phone: 865-494-0818
Slán,
Rick Hall
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Ní neart go cur le chéile.
----Irish Proverb
There is no strength unless people pull together.
Re: Kevin Burke performance & fiddle workshop, May 1 & 2, 2003, Knoxville, TN
Kevin's workshops are very good and helpful, but even in his "advanced" workshops he tends to focus on the people who haven't played Irish trad before, explaining the basics of ornamentation, timing and phrasing with the bow, etc. Great stuff if that's new to you, and he'll take extra time to explain and demonstrate everything until everyone has run out of questions.
More advanced players, especially those well-versed in Irish trad fiddling, will have to be bold and raise the more intricate questions bugging them. In my experience, Kevin's quite good at answering them and demonstrating a variety of approaches to everything he does. Well worth the money, even if your fiddle does stay in the case (which it will).
Take a tape recorder and just let it run. And don't be shy about asking him to play a particular tune to watch how he does some particular thing you want to know more about. Watching and listening to him play is almost guaranteed to give you more lift and life in your playing, even if you don't know why.
Kevin Burke performance & fiddle workshop, May 1 & 2, 2003, Knoxville, TN
Kevin Burke performance & fiddle workshop, May 1 & 2, 2003, Knoxville, TN
Received this today from Rick who got it from Knoxville's CCE group:
Hello all Irish Music players and fans,
I am sending this message out to a wide audience in an effort to get a feel for interest in a proposed workshop. If you play Irish Traditional music and/or the fiddle or know someone who does, please help pass this along.
Kevin Burke will be performing at the Laurel Theater in Knoxville, TN on Friday evening May 2, 2003. If there is enough interest he will do a fiddle workshop Thursday afternoon/evening May 1, 2003. He needs at least 10 participants. The cost is $35 and the workshop will last about 90 minutes. Now this is not "hands-on" workshop, where everyone brings a fiddle and learns tunes. This is more of a lecture/demonstration workshop, as I understand it. If I can quote from others:
"Kevin does not do workshops where everyone brings their fiddle and tries things out.
Here is what one workshop organizer (Lloyd Gibson from CCE in Houston) said about Kevin's workshop:
"The workshop, the one part that most interested me as a student of Irish
Fiddle, was the best I've ever attended. Kevin was able to articulate
both verbally and by demonstration several KEY technics. These are areas
in which I've had other teachers cover but never correctly nor as well
defined as Kevin did it. I was astounded. We had one fiddler who drove
600 miles from Alpine TX to Houston just for the workshop and who stayed at
my place while here. He was very excited about the workshop, meeting Kevin
and also told me it was the best workshop he had ever attended. He said he
learned more in 90 minutes with Kevin than he did during the entire week at
Swannanoa last year."
If you need more info on Kevin check out this site: http://www.greenlinnet.com/artists/kburkebio.htm
So if you are interested in attending this exciting workshop please contact our local CCÉ Branch Chairperson, Herb Williams at will4151@bellsouth.net Phone: 865-494-0818
Slán,
Rick Hall
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Ní neart go cur le chéile.
----Irish Proverb
There is no strength unless people pull together.
# Posted on January 26th 2003 by katiebythegate
Re: Kevin Burke performance & fiddle workshop, May 1 & 2, 2003, Knoxville, TN
Kevin's workshops are very good and helpful, but even in his "advanced" workshops he tends to focus on the people who haven't played Irish trad before, explaining the basics of ornamentation, timing and phrasing with the bow, etc. Great stuff if that's new to you, and he'll take extra time to explain and demonstrate everything until everyone has run out of questions.
More advanced players, especially those well-versed in Irish trad fiddling, will have to be bold and raise the more intricate questions bugging them. In my experience, Kevin's quite good at answering them and demonstrating a variety of approaches to everything he does. Well worth the money, even if your fiddle does stay in the case (which it will).
Take a tape recorder and just let it run. And don't be shy about asking him to play a particular tune to watch how he does some particular thing you want to know more about. Watching and listening to him play is almost guaranteed to give you more lift and life in your playing, even if you don't know why.
# Posted on January 26th 2003 by Miss Lonelyhearts