About Us - Performers - Registration - Lodging -- Maps - - Gallery

 

Check-in for the workshops is on Saturday, 9:00 am at Nerinx Hall High School, 530 East Lockwood, Webster Groves. Click Here for map and directions.

Each Workshop consists of a morning period (9:30 am until midday) and an afternoonperiod (1:30 pm until 4:00 pm) on Saturday. The afternoon period is a continuation of the morning period, not a repeat.

For An evaluation of Advanced, intermediate and Beginer Click Here.

Workshop Title TEACHER
MORNING AFTERNOON  
Bouzuoki Roger Landes
Fiddle I (intermediate) Óisin Mac Diarmada
Fiddle II (Advanced) Cleek Schrey
Fiddle III (Advanced) Tony Linnane
Uilleann pipes I (Beginner) Michael Cooney
  Select one of the following
Slow airs
Regulators
Rhythm and Phrasing
Transition from Highland Pipes
Mikie Smith,
Leo Rickard.
Uilleann pipes II (Intermediate)
Uilleann pipes III (Advanced)
Reedmaking Wenham
Flute Brid O'Donohue
Whistle I (Beginner) Bryan Kelso Crow
Whistle II (Intermediate) Kathleen Conneely
Whistle III (Advanced) John Skelton
Singing/Ballads Ed Miller
Guitar (Beginner) Keith Reins
Guitar(Advanced) Ged Foley
Bodhrán I (Beginner) Albert Alfonso
Bodhrán II (Intermediate/Advanced) Chris Weddle
Harp Michael Rooney
Banjo Pauline Conneely
Concertina Mary MacNamara
Sean Nós Dancing Brian Hart
Accordian Patty Furlong

 

 

 

Advanced, Intermediate and Beginner
To help you decide which level you should register for we have prepared the following guidelines:

Advanced Instrument: Appropriate for advanced and master musicians, and those that feel somewhere between intermediate and advanced. Have played over five (5) years in Irish music and can read music well or can play quickly by ear. Looking for technique, stylizations and direct improvement in problem areas of playing Irish music and more advanced/complicated tunes.

Intermediate Instrument: Appropriate for intermediate musicians and those that feel they are well versed in other types of music but have played Irish music for less than five (5) years; or have been playing Irish music for more than five years but need more instruction/support in critical areas. Can read music or learn by ear fairly quickly.

Basic Instrument: Appropriate for those musicians who have been playing their instrument for at least one year, know simple tunes and can play by written music or by ear at a slower level.

Beginner Instrument: You have no or very little experience with the instrument.

 

e Concert Workshops Donations About Us Links

Focal Point is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of music and song from all parts of the world.
If you would like to know more about Focal Point
Click Here

  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.