Irish Music Weekend, St.Louis Tionól, April 4, 5, 6, 2008
- From: stv <TarBabyTunes@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:03:27 -0700 (PDT)
Tionól, St. Louis, April 4,5,6. 2008 http://www.tionol.org
Irish traditional music & culture to be shared, studied and
celebrated!
This will be a really good year for guitaring, with Robin Bullock and
Ged Foley teaching!
(www.robinbullock.com, www.gedfoley.com)
It's almost time again to gather in St. Louis for the Tionól, a
weekend of
rollicking sessions of Irish trad music, great workshop classes with
some great teachers, dancing and a teachers' concert on Saturday
night. All instruments and skill levels are welcome!
Along the way we enjoy one another, some of St. Louis' fine and unique
attractions and some lovely food and drink.
For all the information, schedules, registration information (and even
where the roads will be under construction in the area!), go to
http://www.tionol.org
This year there is an Irish language course!
Here's a list of the workshops and teachers. If you don't know some
of the names, google them or check on YouTube. Many of these folks
are quite accomplished players and are masters of their instruments.
Others are not as widely known, up-and-coming but just as well
respected!
Fiddle I, intermediate ....... Liz Knowles (Cherish the Ladies)
Fiddle II, advanced ........... James Kelly
Slow Airs ......................... Tommy Martin (piper)
UIlleann pipes I (beginner) .... Michael Cooney
Uilleann pipes II (intermediate) .... Kieran O'Hare
Uilleann pipes III (advanced) .... Tianan Duinchinn
Reedmaking (for Uillieann pipes) ........ Jim Wenham
Pipemaking, repairs and individual
instruction on pipes ......................... Tim Britton
Flute I .............................. Kevin Crawford (Lunasa)
Whistle I (beginner) ........... Bryan Kelso Crow
Whistle II (intermediate) .......... Kathleen Conneely
Whistle III (advanced) ............. John Skelton
Hammer dulcimer ............... Jem Moore
Irish language aspects
and Sean-Nós singing ........... Dennis Corcoran & Brian Hart (Gan
Bua)
Guitar, finger-picking ............ Robin Bullock
Accompaniment (beginner) ........... Keith Reins
Accompaniment (advanced) ........ Ged Foley (Patrick Street)
Bodhrán I (beginner/intermediate) ..... Chris Weddle
Bodhrán II (intermediate/advanced) ....... Mark Stone
Harp ...................................... Eileen Gannon
Banjo/mandolin ................. John Walsh
Ballads ............................. Len Graham
Concertina ......................... Michéal O Raghallaigh
Piano accompaniment ........ Clodagh Ryan
Accoridan ............................... Patty Furlong
Recitation (afternoon only) .......... P.J. Gannon
There it is! What a great lineup. I'm excited.
So the way it goes is that we meet at the Schlafly Tap Room on Friday
evening. The Schlafly is a huge brick building with a restaurant and
several bars and there is a ceili dance or a concert in the big room
upstairs and sessions all over the building, even in the courtyard
and the second floor balcony if the weather permits. It's great fun
to meet friends that we haven't seen in a while!
On Saturday the workshops convene in the Nerinx Hall high school in
the Webster Groves section of St. Louis. There are morning and
afternoon workshop sessions with a lunch break in between. In the
lunch break are two sessions, a Slow Session and ... the other one.
I believe that you can order a box lunch to eat on site when you
register and there are lots of nice places in the neighborhood to grab
some lunch, too.
The cafeteria at Nerinx will also have some instrument vendors and
craftpeople, and it's the center of the day's activites. Folks spread
out around the grounds a bit too, and some play in the gazebo or the
gardens out back.
After the workshops, everyone runs off for dinner (often in groups of
new friends) and meet again at the Sheldon Concert Hall downtown for
the instructors' concert. These have always been peak experiences,
with a great vibe. When talented and seasoned players get to play for
a really appreciateve and engaged audience, magic happens! The
Sheldon is a nice, small hall, too, and beautiful. Artists' CDs are
on sale in the modern adjacent section where there's a cash bar. (Oh
yeah.)
Then we hoist back to the Schlafly Tap Room for more sessions, and
many folks go on and on and find other places to play after closing
the Tap Room. One year a group of Ohioans made arrangements with
their hotel for a conference room where we could play all night
without distubing any sleeping souls. Such things happen...
On Sunday, the scene is John D. McGurk's pub a bit further south in
St. Louis.
J.D.'s is a comfortable place with lots of rooms and a session is just
about every one. There are lovely gardens out back and an all-seasons
tent over another bar room, so folks spread out and play everywhere.
Again. Til... whenever.
On some years we've closed McGurk's and gone on to find a hotel
meeting room in which to keep playing... But most folks head on home
in the late afternoon on Sunday.
There's a wonderful amount of talented players who come from all over,
and always some kids who make us feel our ages.
Contact the Tionol for registration and I'll see you there, I hope!
If you like, email me if you'll
be there. I'm the fat guy with glasses playing the two-point Phil
Crump bouzouki!
Thanks,
stv
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steve V. johnson
http://cdbaby.com/Culchies Irish Traditional Music
http://cdbaby.com/Lopers Original Acoustic Music
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