From the Lowell National Historic Park Website: Irish music and dance traditions are alive and well in New England. This exciting evening of solo, duet, and group performances, plus special guest appearances, will reveal the cultural history and shared languages which these artists express, preserve, and pass on. This free concert will take place Saturday, [...]
Become a Better Fingerpicker! Grammy-Award winner, prolific author, and long-time Music Emporium guest instructor Mark Hanson will coach you on becoming a more proficient fingerpicker, no matter what technical level you are. Mark starts with a discussion of picking-hand positions required for differing approaches to fingerstyle playing. Included is a discussion of the use of [...]
Kathy Mattea along with Sierra Hull and Highway 111 appear in concert at Berklee College on Thursday, March 10th From the Berklee College of Music Website: The 2011 Berklee College of Music Signature Series, where world-renowned musicians share the stage with Berklee students, continues on Thursday, March 10 with two-time Grammy Award-winning country and bluegrass [...]
Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent became the most heralded new act in bluegrass as their debut album Dailey & Vincent (2008) and busy tour schedule introduced them to wildly appreciative audiences. Since then they’ve won countless IBMA awards and are the hottest act in bluegrass today. Jamie Dailey (guitar, bass, lead and harmony vocals) spent [...]
Irish Music and Culture Festival at Indian Hill Indian Hill Music will be presenting a day of Irish music and culture featuring workshops with Shannon Heaton, flute; Flynn Cohen, guitar; Michael Cooney, uilleann pipes ; Maurice Lennon, fiddle; and Eoin McQuinn, bodhran; family ceili with fiddler Lauren Martin & friends and the Heavey Quinn Dance [...]
Passim School of Music will be hosting a fiddle workshop with fiddle master Bruce Molsky! The workshop will run from 2 pm – 4 pm on Saturday, April 9. Bruce Molsky has become known as one of the most influential traditional fiddlers of his generation. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune calls him “old-time music’s answer to Ry [...]
In case you haven’t heard, a great local resource has just gotten better! The faculty at Indian Hill Music (Littleton, MA) is now available for lessons, classes and ensembles in the Traditional Irish style. Visit the Irish page for details (http://www.indianhillmusic.org/1_9_SchoolEvents.html): Irish Guitar Accompaniment Irish Bodhran Class Irish Fiddle Class Irish Singing for Adults Irish [...]
Some fun jams are coming up at Studio 99 next week (in Nashua, New Hampshire): Wednesday, November 17 @ 7:00 PM Monthly Bluegrass Jam hosted by Bob Pope Thursday, November 18 @ 7:00 PM Acoustic blues/Django Jam, hosted by John Brobst Charts and song samples can be found here: http://www.meetup.com/studio99nashua/files/ For more information, you can [...]
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