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The Mississippi River Celtic Music Festival grew out of an effort by several local musicians under the auspices of the Focal Point Traditional Arts Center to put on a weekend of sessions and workshops focusing on traditional Irish Music. The goal has always been to have a setting where musicians of all levels can get together, play music, and learn from each other. We wanted to bring the very best traditional musicians to share their knowledge and their music and to be accessible to the participants in a way not normally possible in the conventional concert or festival setting. Our approach is to provide a leisurely atmosphere and intimate settings where musician and fans can enjoy the music and the craic the way that generations before have done to bring the music to us today. Our job is to foster and preserve this heritage so it lives for those in the future.

Mike Mullins & Michael "Piper" Cooney



 

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Focal Point is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of music and song from all parts of the world.
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  NPU - Na Píobairí Uilleann - The aims of the society are to perpetuate the spirit of the music, in particular the playing of the pipes and the production and maintenance of the instrument itself. To achieve these aims the single most important facet of the Society’s activities is the teaching of the uilleann pipes, especially to young people, as it is through this that the playing of the instrument will increase, prosper and develop. The degree to which the work of the Society has borne fruit is reflected in the number of pipemakers, many professional, now producing pipes - about forty throughout the world.
If you are a piper please consider joining NPU.