Merrion School Of Music (Tutorials)
The Merrion School of Music is a music school on Merrion Square in Dublin City Centre. The school provides music tuition in a range of musical instruments, including traditional tuition in the recorder and harmonica. Tuition in the Tin Whistle is available on request. The school is open from Monday to Saturday for daytime and evening music lessons.

May 23rd 2012

Paddy O'Brien - Community Residencies (Tutorials)
Button accordion master musician Paddy O'Brien is now offering multi-day residencies, expanded master classes along with his usual workshops and house concerts. Paddy is most interested in working with fellow traditional musicians on interpretation—exploring what gives music from West Clare a different flavor from the music of Donegal, for example—and sharing some of the secret notes that impart that flavor, or blas. A residency could range from 2-5 days in length, and be sponsored by a local session group or Irish music or cultural organization. Costs are negotiable. Interested community groups should contact Paddy by phone or email (+1 651-698-2258 or paddyobrien@qwest.net) to chat about what they have in mind.

April 17th 2012

Paddy O'Brien - Offaly (Solo Musicians)
Paddy O’Brien is regarded by serious players and collectors of Irish traditional music as one of the tradition’s most important repositories; in a career that spans nearly forty years, he has collected more than 3,000 compositions—jigs, reels, hornpipes, airs, and marches, including many rare and unusual tunes. His collection, all the more remarkable because it is stored in his head, is the result of many years of careful listening, diligent practice, and sharing tunes with people for the sake of the music itself. A product of County Offaly in the midlands of Ireland, Paddy traveled the countryside as a young man to spend time with older players, absorbing music and the accompanying oral tradition. His early influences came from many players he met in sessions, including Joe Delaney and Dan Cleary of Offaly, Donegal fiddler John Doherty, Paddy Fahy, Eddie Kelly from Galway, Frank McCollum of Antrim, Seán Ryan from Tipperary, and Johnny Henry from Mayo, among hosts of others. His mastery of the two-row button accordion was also acknowledged through prestigious awards: he was named Oireachtas champion four times, and All-Ireland senior accordion champion in 1975. After receiving a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in September 1994, he spent a good portion of the fall and winter recording the 500 tunes that make up The Paddy O’Brien Tune Collection—A Personal Treasury of Irish Traditional Music, an unprecedented undertaking for a single player. Volume One was released in July of 1995, and has been hailed as a priceless and indispensable resource by Irish musicians on both sides of the Atlantic. The Paddy O’Brien Tune Collection—Volume Two (which includes 150 double jigs, 120 hornpipes, 100 polkas, 100 reels, and 30 slip jigs) was released in April 2011. Paddy currently tours and records with Irish traditional trio Chulrua, including fiddle, guitar, and vocals. He also tours and records solo, and with The Doon Céilí Band, a seven-piece ensemble specializing in traditional céilí band music with a distinctive West Clare kick, and O’Rourke’s Feast, a seven-piece Irish traditional chamber orchestra. In 2010, Paddy was honored for lifetime achievements and contributions to the Irish traditional music and culture in Minnesota by the Twin Cities-based Irish Music & Dance Association. In 2012, Paddy received international honors as Cumadóir, or Composer of the Year at the Gradam Ceoil Irish Traditional Music Awards, sponsored by TG4, the Irish language television network.

April 17th 2012

TG4 - Irish Language Television - Gradam Ceoil Awards (Articles)
Here's a link to to the 2012 Gradam Ceoil Irish Music Awards broadcast, featuring: 2012 AWARD WINNERS - Gradam Ceoil (Musician) – Brian Rooney, fiddle - Ceoltóir Óg (Young Musician) – Caoimhín Ó Fearghail, uilleann pipes - Gradam Saoil (Hall of Fame) – Danny Meehan, fiddle - Cumadóir (Composer) – Paddy O’Brien, button accordion - Amhránaí (Singer) – Nell Ní Chróinín - Gradam Aitheantais (Contributions) – Eithne agus Brian Vallely, fiddle and pipes This year’s awards were presented at the Gradam Ceoil 2012 Concert at University Concert Hall, Limerick on Saturday 24th March. Recipients were joined by a host of special guests in a concert hosted by Aoife Ní Thuairisg and Páidí Ó Lionáird that was also broadcast on TG4 on Easter Sunday, 8th April 2012. The program included performances from: - Brian Rooney, John Carty, James Carty & Brian McGrath - Nell ní Chróinín & Eoiní Ó Súilleabháin - Danny Meehan, Tommy Peoples, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh & Dermot McLaughlin - Brian, Eithne & the Vallely Family - Paddy O’Brien & Tommy Sullivan - Caoimhín Ó Fearghail, Seán Ó Fearghail, Dónal Clancy & Tomás Ó Gealbhain - Ceoltóirí Dhámh Chruinne Éireann, Rince & Ceol, Luimneach

April 16th 2012

Classical & FingerStyle Guitar (Tune Collections)
Italian web site dedicated to classical and fingerstyle guitar.

April 14th 2012

Christel Rice's guide to the Irish tin whistle (Tutorials)
These tunes in particular are the melodies that Christel Rice teaches at the New York Irish Center in Queens, NYC. Christel Rice also plays flute/whistles for the John Whelan Band. All are welcomed to join!

April 12th 2012

Tulla Traditional Music Festival (Live Music)
Building on from the success in previous years this years festival promises to be a great weekend of Music, Song and Dance. It starts off on Friday the 7th September with the Official Opening of Festival in Tulla Courthouse

April 11th 2012

Voices & Harps Workshop (Tutorials)
Following the success of their inaugural workshop last year Clannad’s Moya Brennan and harp maestro, Cormac De Barra will be holding their second Voices & Harps workshop in Gweedore, Co. Donegal on the weekend of June 22-24 2012. The workshop will be geared towards those with a keen interest in combining singing with harp playing (singers looking to perform with harp accompaniment, voice with self accompaniment, voice and vocal harmonies or harpers developing their accompaniment skills). Registration in Naomh Padraig from 12.30pm on the Friday prior to the first half day of workshops. There will be a traditional session that evening after dinner. Saturday night entertainment will be provided by Moya and Cormac themselves and the finale, in the renowned Leo’s Tavern on Sunday evening, will give participants the opportunity to perform a selection of the material from the workshop. Full details on the Voices & Harps website

April 11th 2012

Free Irish Tin Whistle App Now Available!!!!!! (Tutorials)
The Irish Tin Whistle App teaches you the basics of playing the tin whistle. Learn the notes, play and listen to the notes, find out who plays it, where it came from and even use the links provided to buy one and get lessons! Free Version Features: - Learn the basics of the Tin Whistle. - Play the Tin Whistle by hitting the notes. Includes real life tin whistle sounds!!! - See the music in sheet note form with every note hit. - Change from lower to upper octaves with the press of a button. - Learn a few tunes. (Includes 3) - Read up on the history of the tin whistle. - Find out the famous people who play it. - Links to tutorials, tin whistle online stores etc.

April 3rd 2012

Open Whistle - new concept of low whistle (Musical Instruments)
Open Whistle is a new concept of low whistle. The combining of an aluminium-made low-whistle with a notch as a mouthpiece produces more volume and the possibilities which are offered are therefore remarkable. Variations and nuances are amazing, with a range from the purest and round sound to a distorted one but with an excellent dynamic. It sounds like the low-whistle although the playing technique has more to see with the tranverse flute.

March 27th 2012

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