Irish Arts & Music Classes

Community Ceili Nights

Experience the fun and friendship of group ceili dancing, the foundational style of dancing in Ireland that would go on to inform the advanced solo dancing and figures that inspired hit shows like Riverdance

Irish Lace Making

The art that maintained a nation! These lessons will help learn the fundamental shapes, connections, and skills built on a foundation of crochet to construct works of gorgeous lace in the style that supported Ireland during an Gorta Mór.

Introduction to Traditional Irish Music

A foundational course on common scales, rhythms, and ornamentation on Irish Whistle and Bodhrán to introduce skills necessary for progression in session tunes and towards other Irish instruments. This course is designed to combine the classical approaches common in modern musicianship alongside the oral traditions more common in passing along these tunes to allow students to continue in a variety of potential environments.

Intermediate and Advanced Offerings by Private and Reserved Group Lessons

• Irish Fiddle - a transition from classical violin to the nuances of Irish fiddle, including unique ornamentation, bowing styles, and a guide to progressed session tunes
• Irish Whistle - low and high whistle advanced tunes and fingering techniques, with guidance to professional grade instrument selection as desired
• Irish Flute - a transition from Irish Whistle to the more difficult finger stretch, embouchure, and breath work of the Irish Flute
• Bodhrán - advanced rhythmic skills, stick work, and percussion development for the traditional multi-tone frame drum
• Uilleann Pipes - transitional fingering from whistle, bellows and bag work, maintenance and reed modification needed to move through this nuanced and complex instrument
• Irish Harp - the iconic instrument of Ireland, learn classic tunes on full size harp, the insignia of Ireland

And more on request!