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Friday Harbor Irish Music Camp

March 5th 2009March 9th 2009

University Of Washington Marine Lab Facility
Friday Harbor
Washington
USA

Telephone: (360) 378-2562

Email:

Website: http://www.fridayharborirish.com/

Submitted on October 22nd 2008 by ratbiscuit.


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Friday Harbor Irish Music Camp

Greetings,

We're happy to announce the eighth Friday Harbor Irish Music Camp, March 9-15, 2009, in beautiful Friday Harbor, Washington. We're now taking registrations for classes in fiddle, flute, concertina, bouzouki, guitar, singing, mandolin, tinwhistle, ear training, and Irish ensemble. The camp website is at http://www.fridayharborirish.com with details about this year's camp, registration information and more. Please note that class selections must be made online, rather than on the registration form, and registrations won't be confirmed until that step is done.

Tuition remains at $675US for full-time students who register and pay in full before Jan. 1, 2009, after which it will be $690US. This includes tuition for classes, lodging, meals, and admission to concerts and other evening events. The camp will be a total of 5 class days and 6 nights. Please keep in mind that we try to keep class sizes small, so some classes filled up early in previous years and we had to stop taking students in those classes. We have some new additions to our teaching staff this year, plus some new class offerings, including special two-hour workshops on Saturday for weekend visitors and locals. (These are free to registered students.)

FIDDLE - Liz and Yvonne Kane

FLUTE - Catherine McEvoy

CONCERTINA - Gearoid O'hAllmhurain

BOUZOUKI / MANDOLIN - Roger Landes

IRISH GUITAR / SONG ARRANGING - Daithi Sproule

EAR TRAINING / MUSIC THEORY - Randal Bays will teach a daily class on ear-training and basic music theory for traditional musicians, all instruments welcome.

IRISH ENSEMBLE - All instruments. Randal Bays will take students through the process of arranging songs and dance tunes for Irish band.

INTRODUCTION TO TINWHISTLE (one class daily) - Andrea Cooper

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SATURDAY WORKSHOPS - Two hours, open to all students

SEAN-NOS SINGING - Áine Meenaghan
IRISH PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT - Dave Marshall
INTRODUCTION TO UILLEANN PIPES - Tom Creegan
OTHER WORKSHOPS TO BE ANNOUNCED

Important, please note: As always, Friday Harbor Irish Music Camp reserves the right to cancel the camp until January 5, 2009, in which case all deposits and registration fees would be returned. Please wait until then to purchase nonrefundable airline tickets, or check with us before doing so.

We hope to see you all at Friday Harbor in March; please email Dan or Randal at fridayharborirish.com with any questions and we'll try to answer them promptly. Also, if you log on to the camp discussion board at http://fridayharborirish.com/comhra/ you can ask people who've been to the camp about lodgings, food, music or anything else. It's been suggested that this discussion board could help people in terms of traveling together or sharing lodgings at the camp. The camp website is updated with this year's registration and other information, and can be found at http://www.fridayharborirish.com

Best wishes,
Randal Bays & Dan Paulson

# Posted on October 22nd 2008 by ratbiscuit

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