Detroit Irish Music Association Session
Get out to the session in Ann Arbor tonight (Jan 30)
Detroit Irish Music Association
The Green Wood Center
1001 Green Road
Ann Arbor, MI
The Detroit IMA is a non-profit organization, offering classes to adults and children at all skill levels on tin whistle, Irish flute, fiddle, concertina, harp, accordion, banjo, guitar, singing, bodhran, and set dancing.
Concert/Ceili at the Gaelic League
Concert/Ceili at the Gaelic League TODAY, Nov 16. Doors open at 6:15pm. $15.
Concert at 7:00pm with North Atlantic Drift, a wonderful traditional music band whose members now live in Toronto. The group is made up of Cape Breton fiddler (gone Irish) Dan MacDonald (who used to drive to Windsor from Bowling Green, Ohio on Wed evenings to play for our set dancing at the Kildare House), Windsor’s own Highland-to-Uilleann bagpipe convert Ross Griffiths and String Guru Brian Taheny from the Irish music mecca of Sligo, Ireland.
Following the Concert, own great local, traditional musicians will join North Atlantic Drift to play for a Ceili.
Please bring a dish to share, your dancing shoes, your friends and family and help make this another magic night at the Gaelic League with brilliant music, mighty dancing and great craic! Everyone welcome!!
Door prizes. Cash Bar. Lighted, guarded parking lot.
A sample of North Atlantic Drift can be heard at: http://pipemusic.ca/?page_id=42
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Join the Craic – GL Session
Hey, hey, hey. What’cha doin tonight???
Come listen to some authentic Irish trad music.
We never know who’ll show up to join the craic (it’s always a little different) but we do dependably have some of Michigan’s finest Irish musicians coming to play with us.
Gaelic League Irish American Club TONIGHT!
We start at 7:30 Non members welcome.
Cheryl
Jamrocks at the Claddagh
Dancers always welcome to kick up their heels while Jamrocks play jigs and reels (and hornpipes, and slip jigs …).
5:30pm until 8:30pm
Please feel free to stop by and enjoy a bite and/or a pint while Jamrocks plays a goodly mix of Irish and Scottish tunes, with perhaps a song or two thrown in for good measure.
Children 10 years of age still eat free on Sundays from 4 – 9 PM, by the way.
Hope to see you all there!
17800 Haggerty Road
Livonia, Mi 48152
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Learn a Tune
We added a new tune to learn on SessioNite.
The idea behind the Learn a Tune page is that many of us will take the time to learn another tune that we can play together the next time we meet each other in a session.
The current tune is Cameron Highlander, suggested by Sean C.. You will find the tune in ABC Notation, a full speed rendition of the tune, and one slowed down for those who like to learn tunes by ear. there is also the YouTube video included.
You can find all this HERE!
Session at Dick O’Dow’s
Those of you who attended our June 11th session at Dick’s know what a success it was.
At that time there was interest in repeating the event, so I have arranged with Dick’s to have another session.
We are on at Dick’s for Tuesday, August 20 starting around 7:30 pm.
Please let me know if you can make it, or at least sign up on Sessionite.
Thanks.
See you there,
Don
Court of St Brigid & Session
“Heading up to the AOH tonight (Feb 16) for the Court of St Brigid competition (my little wall-flower Haley is a contestant) at 7:30pm. Wonder if there is any chance of scaring up an impromptu session after the event?” – Sean C.
Tell us on the “I’ll B There” – gf
Irish Pub Night – February 23, 2013
7:00 pm til Midnight
$10.00 per person (includes beer, wine, pop and music). Available for a minimal cost Pub Food!
Darts and Trivia.
Live Irish Pub Music ODD ENOUGH and The JOYCES
St. Valentine’s School Gym
25975 Hope Street
Redford, MI 48239
Peggy – evermoremusic2@gmail.com
Ceili Gathering
Hello everyone!!!
Just a reminder, tonight is our 2nd ceili gathering….hope you plan on attending..last time we had Ceili dancers from Detroit come join us, and help teach new dances..it was a lively night..
Hope to see all of you..we will have to use the room downstairs, unfortunately, because the main hall is being used for a Memorial dinner.
Bring a friend or partner…7 p.m. 10 p.m.
American Legion Post 16
Lapeer Michigan
Call Debbi for information 810-660-8478
deb.irishdanceandmusic@gmail.com
46th Annual Court of St. Brigid
The 46th annual Court of St. Brigid Scholarship Program, sponsored by the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians, Rose Kennedy Division, will be held Saturday, February 16, 2013, at the AOH Cardinal Mooney K of C Hall, 25300 Five Mile, Redford Twp. Educational Scholarships were awarded to the winner and her court.
Girls who are age 17 through 23 years old are eligible for the program. (Please check the Qualifications page for full information.) Educational scholarships will be awarded to the winner and her court.
The applications should be submitted to:
Maureen Kelly
16560 Levan
Livonia, MI 48154
If there are any questions or more information is needed, please feel free to contact Maureen Kelly at 734.632.0334 or mkelly6@juno.com.
This is a wonderful opportunity for girls to win scholarship money and celebrate their Irish heritage!
Sharon Shannon at the Ark
Sunday, March 10, 2013, 7:30pm
Tickets: $30
An Irish accordion whirlwind!
Sharon Shannon has music at her fingertips … literally! This accordionist from Ireland has achieved legendary status throughout the world and has made the much-maligned accordion cool in her home country. She’s renowned for her collaborations, not just in Irish traditional music, but through genres from hip-hop to Cajun, country, and classical music. This genre-defying star has had multi-platinum album sales and has had several number-one albums, singles and DVDs in her home country. A prolific composer, Sharon recently finished an album traditional tunes in full concert orchestra arrangements. Come and hear the Irish music artist the Irish themselves go crazy for—the sensational Sharon Shannon!
Dervish at the Ark
Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 8:00pm
Tickets: $20
Magical music from Ireland
From the Great Wall of China to packed auditoriums in the Holy Land and more recently being the first Irish band to perform at the greatest music festival in the world, “Rock in Rio”, on front of an estimated audience of 240,000 people, Dervish has come a long way in their nearly 25 years of existence.
Formed in 1989 by a group of five musicians who came together to record an album of local music which was released as “The Boys of Sligo.” Inspired by the project, they decided to develop this informal gathering (which gathered weekly to play sessions in local pubs) into a working band under the name Dervish, which was chosen as it related to any group of spiritual people who become enraptured by music. They’ve shared stages with the likes of James Brown, Buena Vista Social Club, Oasis, Sting, REM, and Beck, and by now they’re guaranteed sellouts at the biggest halls and folk festivals in Ireland.
Yet they don’t tour too terribly often in North America! This is pure Irish music at its best—not to be missed.
http://www.dervish.ie/
FullSet at the Ark
Thursday, March 14, 2013, 8:00pm
Tickets: $20
The finest in traditional Irish music!
All accomplished young musicians in their own right, the members of FullSet create a stunning and unique sound that is full of energy and innovation, while all the time remaining true to their traditional Irish roots. Having received critical acclaim for their debut release and being compared to supergroups such as Danú & Altan by respected Irish Music Magazine, FullSet is all set to thrill audiences throughout the world in the future. In October 2011 they were honored with the RTÉ/RAAP Breakthrough Annual Music Bursary Award after being shortlisted in a field of almost 800 other groups and artists. If you’re wondering whom young Irish music fans in Ireland are listening to, look no further than Dublin accordionist Janine Redmond, Tipperary fiddler Michael Harrison and bodhran player Eamonn Moloney, County Cork vocalist and flutist Teresa Horgan and piper Sean McCarthy, and Dublin guitarist Andy Meaney.
Documents
- 01 – Sandpoint – Set Chords
- 02 – Sandpoint – Tune Chords
- 03 – Sandpoint – Set Dots
- Blarney Stone Pub Tunebook – A collection of tunes played at the Blarney Stone Pub, San Diego, California
- Circle of Fifths – A guide to understanding keys and transposing
- Dr. Coop's Compiation of Songs Songs and words, traditional and of the Sea
- Green's Tunebook – Green’s Collection of tunes
- Green's Tunebook ABC ABC Notation for Green’s Tunebook
- Jamrock Tunes – Some of the Basic tunes played by Jamrocks
- John Walsh's Sesson Tunes – Learn these tunes if you want to play most tunes at sessions!
- Paul Hardy's Tunebook Folk music sessions tunes around Cambridge, England and Redlands, California
- The Music Lover's Treasury Poetry about Music. Lovely.
- Tips Form – Create a custom tips form for fundraising
- Tunes Often Heard – A good working list of tunes often heard in the Detroit area. Especially good for beginners who want to learn tunes that will likely be played at local sessions.
- Tunes Often Heard ABC ABC Notation for Tunes Often Heard