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Colleen Raney, Colm MacCárthaigh
& Christine Traxler concerts
*Feb 16 Lakewood WA concert:
at 7:30pm at the Lakewood Playhouse(
near Tacoma), 5729
Lakewood Towne Center Blvd SW, Lakewood,
WA 98499-3821 for some lively tunes. Tickets are
$12-15 call the Box Office (253) 588-0042 Venue
Map
*Feb
17th Seattle Concert at 8:30pm in Fremont Abbey Arts Center
(lower space) 4272 Fremont Ave Seattle
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ALL AGES, Beer, Wine, Coffee, Tea, Tickets $10 at Brown
Paper Tickets or $14 at door
*Feb
18 Snohomish WA concert:
at 7:30pm at the Thumbnail
Theater at 1211 4th Ave, Snohomish
WA . Tickets are $10 and available for purchase online here
More information can be found at www.colleenraney.com
and all three albums, Linnet, Lark, and Cuan are available for listening or
downloads www.colleenraney.bandcamp.
com
Here's a
youtube sample
from their latest cd plus another bonus vid
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www.colleenraney.com
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Scottish
Step Dance Class Sundays 5:30-6:30 at Dance Works
in Redmond WA w/Elizabeth Miller
The class is a general level Scottish step dance class for adults and teens
(not Cape Breton - more like a low key adult version highland fling).
Scottish step dance includes both soft and hard shoe traditions; the soft shoe
is balletic and graceful, including dances that range from 1740 to present;
the hard shoe is a very old tradition and has steps similar to English clogs
and Cape Breton-style steps. Drop in's are welcome
$5/class For questions email Elizabeth Miller martlet3@comcast.net
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Listen Online to Radio Dé Danann
Hosted
on live 365 its a new Pan-Celtic Radio channel
broadcast out of Mill Creek WA with Nan Hawthorne.
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www.radiodedanann.com
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Feb 17th Portland Oregon Ceili at
the PPAA
Each
Céilí starts with a lesson at 8pm and dancing at 9pm. Live
music. The
dances are taught and called. No experience or partner is
needed. Ages 8 and up welcome.
Dance
lessons 8pm , Ceili 9-12pm
$8 Members, Students and Seniors,
$10 non-members
at the PPAA in downtown Portland
Take Exit #300B off I5 southbound to get to the
PPAA,
at 618 SE Alder Street (click for map)
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Feb
17-19th Sean-nós Northwest Festival in Portland, OR
Full Weekend pass: $60 or single day passes are also available.
Friday night
includes the PPAA Irish ceili.
Workshop Teachers: Ronan Regan, Sean McComiskey,
Micheal Ó Cuaig, Traikacg O Riodain, Maldon Meehan, Sean
Williams, David Ingerson, Oisin Mac Suibhne, Kimberly Goetz and
more. Youtube dance video
sample from last yr and another with Ronan
Register online at: http://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=2598548328 |
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Feb 18-19 Seattle Irish Piper's
Tionol at St Benedicts Catholic School, 4811
Wallingford Ave N, Seattle WA featuring
these instructors:
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in New York City to an Irish-American mother & a
father from Dublin, Ireland, Jerry first learned to play
the Scottish highland pipes. During summer visits to
family in Dublin, he learned the uilleann pipes from
listening and asking questions to experienced players
such as Peter Carberry, Matt Kiernan, Dan Dowd, Peter
McKenna, Fergus Finnegan, Mick O’Brien, Gay McKeon,
and others. In New York, uilleann piper Bill Ochs was a
major help and inspiration to Jerry. He's recorded on
> 90 albums. |
Denis
Brooks helped start the San Francisco Pipers’
Club. Denis’s playing & tutelage helped grow
the Irish music community in San Francisco and saw
uilleann piping become a regular part of sessions and
performances there. He left San Francisco in 1980
& returned to Seattle. It didn’t take long
for Denis to organize another Pipers’ Club. He
soon had several piping students who were inspired by
Denis’s mastery of the pipes. He's known for his
Rowsome style of playing, with judicious use of
regulators. |
Leo
hails from Scariff in County Clare, a widely
acknowledged hot-bed of traditional Irish music.
He plays wooden flute, whistles & guitar and has
been playing for over twenty years. Steeped in the
traditional music of his native county, Leo brings
together a broad array of musical influences to produce
a unique style, incorporating a forceful tempo, full of
lyrical touches and the odd flight of fancy. Now
living in Seattle, he is a well known figure on the
local and national scene and hosts a weekly jam
session. |
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sure to take advantage of the early online
registration discount prices: |
* Saturday& Sunday classes w/pipers Phil
White, Jerry O'Sullivan or Denis Brooks $75 ($90day of
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includes reed making w/Aaron
Setunsky & breakfast (concert ticket not
included in price) |
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Saturday classes w/Leo MacNamara (flute &
whistle) $40 early registration ( $50day
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Saturday concert 7:30pm Tickets $15 adults $5
youth |
Download 2012
Concert
flyer here
and for all the latest info, see www.irishpipersclub.org
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Feb 19th
Gung Haggis Fat Choy Celebration in Seattle 5-9pm
at the scenic China
Harbor Restaurant 2040 Westlake Ave N in Seattle
Reservations required for this Chinese-Scottish
cross-cultural event featuring Scottish and Chinese entertainment
and 8-course dinner. Entertainment will be Music
in the Glen, a Celtic fiddle group, and Li Haug Da, with a new
Asian dance group including a premier dancer with the Beijing
Ballet, now living here. Attendees are encouraged to wear national
dress from either country, or a combination of both
Please
contact Bill McFadden for reservations and tickets: (206) 364-6025
or bill@gunghaggisfatchoy-seattle.com
And here's a Youtube Lion
Dance with Bagpipes - Seattle
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Battering
for Sets & Sean-nos Dance
with Maldon Meehan in Portland Oregon
For more
info: call 503 206 9311 or email
maldon@maldonmeehan.com
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Maldon's
dance Classes
resumed in January and you can also do a
dance lesson via skype, or sign up for a new
series of Irish language, singing or
whistle classes..
See her website
for details.
Maldon Meehan Studio, 226 SE Madison Street,
Portland, OR
All levels and ages are welcome!
Youtube video sample here
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Brían Ó hAirt has
created online Irish language lessons
thru a website
called Language Hunters (www.languagehunters.org).
The original aim of this organization was to help
revitalize the indigenous language communities here in the
Pacific Northwest. He initially learned this technique
while hunting Chinook, Lushootseed and Makah--a great honor,
indeed! Since many of these indigenous languages are
oral-based, and Irish Gaelic has such a difficult orthographic
(writing) system it made sense to incorporate this style of
language hunting in his teaching method. He have been
using it to great success with many Irish students in the PNW.
Without further introduction or explanation, He'd like to
offer for your viewing pleasure and constructive
criticism/praise, the entire first round of our first game.
You can find it online in two formats--YouTube and Vimeo
http://www.youtube.com/user/languagehunters
http://vimeo.com/album/1766297/page:1
Please, feel free to contact him with
your thoughts and feedback. This is an exciting
endeavor and fairly uncharted territory so he hopes you'll accept
his invitation to play 'Tea with Grandpa.' Slán beo! Brían Ó hAirt
Portland, OR (314)
974-7073
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http://www.buamusic.com/brian_hart.html |
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Feb 21 Dance Workshop with Nic Gareiss 7-8:30pm $20
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Hosted by Julia Derby
at her home. Please contact Julia for her address and
directions via email
juliaderby@mac.com,
or phone 425-339-7620.
Nic Gareiss has studied and performed American clogging and tap
dance for >17years. Nic studied Appalachian dance at the
Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, West Virginia. He has
also apprenticed and toured with Rhythm in Shoes and Footworks
Percussive Dance Ensemble, Appalachian clogging's two foremost
performance
ensembles.
Now working as an independent dancer, musician, and researcher,
Nic holds degrees in anthropology and music from Central Michigan
University and recently obtained his master's in ethnochoreology
at the University of Limerick.
Nic Gareiss - Youtube
sample 1 and Youtube
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www.nicgareiss.com
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Feb 25th Carrigaline CD Release
Concert 8pm
Kieran
O'Mahoney on Uilleann pipes, Andrew Anderson on guitar, banjo and
lead vocals, and Alice Tilton on fiddle perform at their cd
release concert at Celtic Swell, 2722 Alki Ave,
in
West Seattle.
More info
here www.facebook.com/events/303511649686762 |
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Register now for the early
bird discount Cove to Clover 1K/5K/10K race to be held March
11th
This race
is unlike any other 5K or 10K. For one thing, it is very hard. So
hard in fact that it is fast becoming a test piece for NW
runners. "Snake Hill" rises nearly 1000' in the
first mile of the course. Around mile 2 you'll encounter "The
Uprising", a runner obstacle that has been
constructed in the middle of a live Celtic battlefield. For your
suffering, you will be rewarded with on-course Celtic pipers and a
finish line festival that delivers the goods with 2 beer
gardens, a stage with live entertainment, free root beer garden
and free hot dogs for children. There's also a pub
crawl on Friday night, and talent show on Saturday.
Register online now for the early bird discount
All proceeds go right back to the Highline Community. Here's a
youtube
sample from the 2011 Cove to Clover race . We hope
you'll come join us as a runner - or a volunteer ! |
www.covetoclover.com
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Tickets are
onsale now for the
Farraige Mhor Academy of Irish Dance presentation of
the Irish tale " The Children of Lir "
March 17th, 7:30pm at the Thumbnail Theater in Snohomish WA
Come and see the finest FMA has to
offer as they present a Step Dance Showcase and theatrical and
dance telling of The Children of Lir. The Thumbnail
Theater is at 1211 4th Ave, in
historic downtown Snohomish
WA
Tickets are
available for presale at a discount through Kody Friedrich (kodyann@gmail.com)
or at the door. Plus BrownPaperTickets.com
online sales are now available too. Its $8 general
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Slighe
nan Gaidheal, Féis Seattle June 13-17, 2012 - Register Now
Early
bird registrations received prior to March 1st will receive a
price reduction. For their online registration form and
breaking news about the festival held at Port Townsend’s Fort
Worden State Park, click on www.slighe.com
. This is their 8th biennial event celebrating Scottish Gaelic
music, language and culture in Washington state.
You
can download the registration
form and mail them a check OR register online and
pay via credit card.
They
welcome the following presenters; Gaelic music Gillebride
MacMillian, Wire Clarsach Cynthia Cathcart, Cape Breton fiddle
Kimberley Fraser and Gaelic language instructor Margie Beaton.
Returning by popular demand to the 2012 Féis Seattle are: Gaelic
language experts Rachael McPherson and Muriel Fisher and piper
Barry Shears. You’ll be surrounded with Gaelic, clarsach,
fiddle, song, pipes, dance, history, and culture.
Additional
Féis information on class registration, housing, meals, costs,
etc. is available through Slighe nan Gaidheal, Féis Seattle 2012
Committee, PO Box 31834, Seattle, WA 98103, 206-903-9452, or
www.slighe.com/feis
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May &
June 2012 Scotland Tours are booking now with the Scottish
balladeer Jim Malcolm
Warm
hellos from Jim and Susie Malcolm in Scotland
We are planning two wonderful ten-day holidays around
Scotland next May and June 2012. Fancy coming with us? We’ll spend our days sightseeing and our evenings with concerts
& ceilidhs
around the country, taking in Edinburgh, Perthshire,
Royal Deeside (visiting Balmoral Castle), whisky-kissed Speyside and
Inverness-shire,
then over to the magical islands of Mull and Iona, before landing back in civilization in Glasgow,
then visiting Robert Burns country. We had the most fabulous time on this glorious tour around Scotland this year,
and we can’t wait to do it all again.
Next year’s dates are: May 15-25, 2012 and June 19-29, 2012
Please let me know if you’d like us to send you the detailed itinerary.
Our best wishes from bonny old Scotland,
susie@jimmalcolm.com
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