October 1 Irish Music & 2012 Dance Association Meán Fómhair 30th Year, Issue No. 10 The mission of the Irish Music and Dance Association is to support, coordinate, encourage and promote high quality activities and programs in Irish music, dance, and other cultural traditions within the community and to insure the continuation of those traditions.
Inside this issue: Carlos Núñ ez at the Cedar Tune of the Month 2
On Tuesday, October 16, at 7:30 p.m. the Cedar Cultural Center welcomes Gaelic Corner 3 renowned Galician instrumentalist Carlos Núñez and his band, as he makes his first IMDA Grant Winner 4 major US tour in the wake of his landmark two-CD album Discover (Sony Masterworks, 25 Sept 2012). Tickets for the seated show are $20 in advance or $25 October Calendar 6-7 on the day of the show. Northwoods Songs 8 Núñez is one of Galicia’s most revered artists, undisputed as the tradition’s Ceili Corner 10 greatest piper. He is enormously popular across the rest of Spain and throughout Smidirini 11 Europe and Latin America, with a number one hit and with his records regularly attaining gold and platinum status. He is also well known in Irish music, thanks to his longstanding collaborations with The Chieftains. So close was his musical and personal connection to the legendary group that he was dubbed “The Seventh Chieftain”. He played on many of The Chieftains' CDs including Treasure Island, The Long Black Veil, the Grammy-winning Santiago (inspired by Galician music), Mexican project San Patricio, and their latest release, Voice of Ages. “Galicia,” Nuñez explains, “is the magical part of Spain.” A region both beautiful and mystical, it has a culture and music all its own. Galicia was shaped by an ancient history (tied to the Celts who inhabited that corner of the country over 2500 years ago). At the western- most part of Spain, perched on the Atlantic coast, Galicia is a land connected to cultures from across the globe, not only from their own seafaring history but from a constant influx of Christian pilgrims to Santiago de Campostela. Then, during the dictatorial Franco regime, flamenco was promoted as the “national music,” while other regional arts, languages and cultures faced severe repression. Now, Galicia is undergoing a modern day renaissance. For more information or for tickets, you can phone 612-338-2674 ext 2 between noon and 4 p.m. ($2 fee per ticket). You can also order tickets through Ticketweb (fees apply).
The Cedar is an all ages venue. Students with ID, seniors over 65, and children under 12 may purchase tickets at a discount at the door.
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The IMDA Board is : une of he on h by Amy Shaw President: Lisa Conway Treasurer: Mark Malone Here’s a lovely slip jig from Catherine McEvoy, a wonderful flute Secretary: Jan Casey Board Members: John Concannon player in the Sligo-Roscommon style. Although Catherine was born Ruth McGlynn in Birmingham, England, she has deep roots in Co. Roscommon. Editor: John Burns Both her parents came from Strokestown in Roscommon, and she grew up listening to lots of musicians who had immigrated to IMDA Board Meetings are open to the membership. The Board meets regularly on the First Tuesday of each Birmingham from that part of Ireland. The Birmingham Ceili Band, month at 6 pm at Perkins in HarMar. Members are encouraged to for instance, had a long line of great Roscommon flute players. verify the time and location shortly before, as meeting times and During her teens, Catherine joined that band, and began appearing at locations can change. ceilis and competitions all over England and Ireland. In her early Contact Information twenties, she decided to move to Ireland, where she married Tom Write to: McGorman (also a flute player) and raised a family. She has a Irish Music and Dance Association 236 Norfolk Ave NW number of fine albums to her credit, some of them recorded with Elk River, MN 55330
Felix Dolan on piano. (Felix is a local favorite since he came for this Call: 612-990-3122 year’s Minnesota Irish Music Weekend…wouldn’t it be great to have E-mail: [email protected] Catherine here for a future MIM weekend?) An experienced teacher, Newsletter Submissions Catherine has been an instructor at the Willie Clancy Summer School We welcome our readers to submit articles of interest, and other festivals. news, and notices of events to be published in the newsletter. This slip jig, which exists in two-part and three-part versions, has The deadline is the 20th of the preceding month. been widely recorded under various names. Catherine recorded it on a C flute; I have transcribed the tune in the more usual key. Usual disclaimers: Any transcription errors are my own. The notation here is not meant to be a substitute for listening. It is simply an aid to learning the tune.
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he aelic orner By Will Kenny Looking for a cool word in Irish? Cúl ought to the way place." do. The Irish word cúl, basically meaning the In parliamentary politics, a cúlbhinseoir is a "back" of something, is pronounced very much like "backbencher." The backbenchers might make up a "cool" in English. party leader's cúlmhuintir or "back people", that is, Cúl is used for "at the back of the house" ( cúl an "followers." tí ), or the "back door" ( cúldoras ). It is not generally Of course, you know that politicians do not used for your back, that is, always talk kindly or truthfully for "back" as a standalone about one another. To the contrary, body part, we prefer droim there is usually a lot of cúlchaint for that. But it can be used going on. Cúlchaint literally means in many phrases to refer, in "backtalk", but not in the sense of a relative sense, to the back "talking back." It refers to part of your body or head. "backbiting," that is slandering people or In fact, when cúl is used alone to refer to the deliberately spreading lies and rumors. Such a body, it usually means the "back of the head," short person might also be called a cúlghearrthóir, a "back for cúl cinn. And since you find hair at the back of cutter." your head, cúl is used as a term for "hair" in some There is also cúléisteacht ("back listening"), expressions. which is to "eavesdrop" on someone else's Again, you couldn't use cúl for "hair" in a stand- conversation. And another way of observing alone sense, that is, you could not say, "He has someone else, without participating, is to be a plenty of hair" and use cúl . (You would use cúlchearrbhach . A cearrbhach is a "card player" or gruaig.) But it is widely used to indicate general "gambler." So a "back gambler" is someone who hair color. looks over your shoulder as you play cards -- So you might hear cúlbhán (literally, "white perhaps injecting some commentary on your skills back") to indicate, not that your back is white (like from time to time. a silver-back gorilla!), but that you are fair-haired. Finally, to go ar gcúl is to move backwards. Similarly for cúldubh ("black haired"), cúlchas Cuirfidh tú an clog ar gcúl, "You will put the clock ("curly haired", from cas meaning "twist"), cúlbhuí backwards," when Daylight Savings Time ends in a ("yellow-haired.) few weeks. As mentioned, cúl usually refers to the back If you are looking to join our Gaeltacht location relative to other things. Your "back tooth" Minnesota weekly classes, keep an eye on our web or cúlfhiacail is a "molar." And common terms like site at www.gaelminn.org , or watch for the St. Paul "back room" ( cúlseomra ) and "back Community Education catalog, for details of our street" ( cúlsráid ) are expressed with this word. Intro to Irish Gaelic class starting in January. And Cúl le faobhar is literally the "back of a knife while you're at the site, sign up for our free e-zine, blade." As faobhar means "the sharp edge of a The GaelMinn Gazette, that delivers tips (in English) blade," cúl le faobhar is the part of the blade that is for studying the language and announcements about farthest from that edge. But you'll hear this phrase our activities and events to your inbox every month. much more often to mean "remote" or "secluded" in a general sense, something far from anything Tá cúl ar an ngealach that matters, perhaps, rather than to refer to an The moon is on the wane actual knife. An áit cúl le faobhar is a "very out of --
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Irish Dancer as Irish Musician By Elisabeth Charboneau
Becky Bollinger is receiving an IMDA educational grant to help pay for private harp lessons and for the cost of a wire strung harp, an instrument that is purely Irish in origin. Becky has been playing the harp for three years as well as the tin whistle. Even though she first explored the Irish community through dance, she was soon drawn to the music. As she says, “To a dancer, the music is what calls us to dance.” She began by playing on a nylon harp, but last fall she switched to a wire strung harp. As her harp instructor, Chad McAnally says, “Clearly Becky is not allergic to hard work or afraid of challenge. […] Despite the outward similarities of the two harps, this is much like switching from the fairly user-friendly tin whistle to far more demanding uilleann pipes—not an easy feat even for an adult.”
Becky has been an active part of the Irish community in the Twin Cities for many years. She began by taking céilí dance lessons at the University of St. Catherine (St. Kate’s) when she was a student there. Becky continued practicing Irish dance with Scoil na d’Tri as part of their step dancing performance team, as well as advancing to the level of Preliminary Championship competing individually. Becky also joined two other dance groups, the Knocknagow Irish Dancers and the Mooncoin Céilí Dancers; as Becky said, “Both groups exemplify what I have found to be common in the Irish community: a group of social people who like to have fun, but are very serious about perfecting their art.” Becky most recently continued dancing as part of the adult class at the O’Shea Irish Dance School. For the last three years, she has arranged the adult Irish performance at the Festival of Nationals, highlighting the variety of styles present in Irish dance.
Becky loves both Irish music and dance, saying she could not imagine choosing between them. She also balances a demanding full-time job with developmentally challenged adults along with volunteering for the Center for Irish Music and the Celtic Junction. Becky’a generosity also shines in her group harp lessons; she never hesitates to help the younger students to improve their music skills, such as sight-reading and tuning. She also extended her teaching skills at Scoil na d’Tri where she taught the adult beginner class for six years. This fall, Becky hopes to join one of the Center for Irish Music’s Adult Ensembles to begin sharing her performance skills as a musician with the Irish community as well. McAnally adds, “Becky’s keen interest and clear talent for the Irish harp, an instrument rescued from oblivion, is no less meaningful or important for returning the old harp back to living tradition” through her desire to share Irish music on the wire strung harp. IMDA is pleased to be able to help Becky continue on her journey as a talented musician who is committed to keeping traditional Irish music alive in our community.
Elisabeth Charboneau is a long time IMDA volunteer, a middle-school English teacher, an ardent reader and a zealous traveler of the world.
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An Leabhragán (The Bookcase) New Ways To Kill Your Mother Colm Toibin (Scribner's (2012)
In this brilliant new collection of essays, Colm Toibin, himself a prolific and respected Irish novelist, playwright and literary critic, thoughtfully examines how famous writers' family ties shape both their adult lives and their fictional works. Family dynamics are the crucible forging some of the world's greatest literature, and Toibin divides his essays into two sections: I. Ireland and II. Elsewhere. Part One, "Ireland", delineates the lives and works of some of Ireland's most revered greats: W.B. Yeats, John Millington Synge, Samuel Beckett, and for the modern age, Roddy Doyle's current re-invented cultural landscape. The author seems to be saying that the worshipful attitude of many modern readers toward early 20th century literary lions sometimes amounts to an over-inflated balloon, which Toibin cheerfully and methodically pops, revealing their insecurities, petty concerns, family conflicts and comedies these masters used as raw material for their classic Irish masterpieces. Part Two, "Elsewhere", explores Thomas Mann, Hart Crane, Tennessee Williams, John Cheever and others, using the same method. "Killing your mother" (or father) is the symbolic way writers transform family drama into fiction, sometimes triumphantly, often tragically or desultorily. Collateral damage wreaked upon spouses, children, parents and siblings is frequently considerable; some authors (Synge, Beckett) seem to know this; others callously do not, or don't care (Cheever and Yeats seemed egregiously unaware of the personal havoc left in their literary wakes). With Toibin as guide, we see how the darkest and most surprising aspects of their personal ties are re-worked into stunning, illuminating literature, transforming their generations' zeitgeist and the lives of their readers. He accomplishes this with subtlety and humanity; even the most twisted aspects of family-into-fiction are drawn insightfully and with compassion. This highly readable collection of essays is bound to become a lit-crit classic.
Sherry Ladig, frequent contributor to this column, is a former reviewer for the Hungry Mind Bookstore's newsletter, Fodder and is a Saint Paul-based traditional musician and composer. Sherry welcomes suggestions for future books to review for this column----or write a review yourself. She can be reached at [email protected] . Happy autumnal reading!
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Dance Association Saturday 6 6 Ceili Saturday 2pm First Paul St. Pub, Dubliner Dance Set Irish 7pm Paul St Junction, Celtic The Nelson Barry 7:30pm Stillwater Pub, Charlie’s Serfs 8pm The Paul St Tymes, Wild Cowboys 8pm Belfast Mpls Lounge, Liquor Lee’s Comfort Northern 9:30pm Mpls Pub, Kieran’s Trio Tap Two 9:30pm Paul St. Pub, Dubliner 13 Green of Shades 1pm Forty Road 9pm Locklin Lake Bear White Station, Manitou Bhoys Colonial Wild 9:30pm Mpls Pub, Kieran’s Green of Shades Forty 9:30 Park Louis St Irish Pub, Cooper 20 Johnson Ginny & Dahill Tom Stillwater Pub, Irish Charlie’s Cowboys 8pm Belfast Mpls Junction, Whiskey Brigade Irish The 9:30pm Mpls Pub, Kieran’s Apple Jack Orchard, Delano Delano Orchard, Jack Apple
Friday 5 5 Nelson Barry 7:30pm Stillwater Pub, Charlie’s Session 8pm Celtic Mpls Rest, Merlins Comfort Northern 9:30pm Mpls Pub, Kiran’s Trio Tap Two 9:30pm Paul St. Pub, Dubliner 12 Session 8pm Celtic Mpls Rest, Merlins Bhoys Colonial Wild 9:30pm Mpls Pub, Kieran’s Green of Shades Forty 9:30 Park Louis St Irish Pub, Cooper 19 Ceili Irish 7pm Paul St Junction, Celtic The Johnson Ginny & Dahill Tom Stillwater Pub, Irish Charlie’s Session 8pm Celtic Mpls Rest, Merlins Brigade Irish The 9:30pm Mpls Pub, Kieran’s
Thursday 4 4 Quiz Pub 6:30pm Quiz Pub 8pm Mpls Pub, Keegan’s Trio Tap Two 9:30pm Paul St. Pub, Dubliner 11 Quiz Pub 6:30pm Quiz Pub 8pm Mpls Pub, Keegan’s Brigade Irish 8pm St. Paul Rec, Time Half Music Live 9:30pm Paul St. Pub, Dubliner 18 Quiz Pub 6:30pm Quiz Pub 8pm Mpls Pub, Keegan’s Music Live 9:30pm Paul St. Pub, Dubliner
Wednesday 3 3 Session Irish 7pm Traditional Northfield Cafe, Brothers Hogan Lessons Dance Set 7:30pm Mpls Ctr, Dance Folk Tapestry Quiz Pub 7:30pm Mpls Rest, Merlins Dancing Social Irish 7:30pm Trio Tap Two 9:30pm Paul St. Pub, Dubliner 10 Session Irish 7pm Traditional Northfield Cafe, Brothers Hogan Lessons Dance Set 7:000pm Mpls Ctr, Dance Folk Tapestry Quiz Pub 7:30pm Mpls Rest, Merlins Dance Social Irish 7:30pm Trio Tap Two 9:30pm Paul St. Pub, Dubliner 17 Session Irish 7pm Traditional Northfield Cafe, Brothers Hogan Lessons Dance Set 7:000pm Mpls Ctr, Dance Folk Tapestry Quiz Pub 7:30pm Mpls Pub, Kieren’s Quiz Pub 7:30pm Mpls Rest, Merlins Dance Social Irish 7:30pm Trio Tap Two 9:30pm Paul St. Pub, Dubliner
Tuesday 2 2 Hour Irish 5:30pm Pub Merlins Road 6pm Locklin Mpls Kitchen, Hell’s Quiz Pub 7:30pm Mpls Pub, Keegan’s Trio St. Dominic’s Mpls Nye’s, 9 Hour Irish 5:30pm Pub Merlins Quiz Pub 7:30pm Mpls Pub, Keegan’s Trio St. Dominic’s Mpls Nye’s, 16 Hour Irish 5:30pm Pub Merlins Quiz Pub 7:30pm Mpls Pub, Keegan’s Trio St. Dominic’s Mpls Nye’s,
IMDA Community Calendar October 2012 2012 October Calendar Community IMDA Monday 1 1 Monday First 7:30pm Sing Shanty Paul St. Pub, Dubliner 8 15 Pub Monday 3rd 7pm Singing Mpls Rest, Merlins
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27 27 Dance Set Irish 7pm Paul St Junction, Celtic The Trio Dominic’s St. 9:30pm Mpls Pub, Kieran’s Bhoys Colonial Wild 9:30pm Mpls Pub, O’Donovan’s Ginny & Dahill Tom 10pm Johnson Paul St. Pub, Keegan’s 3 Ceili Saturday 2pm First Paul St. Pub, Dubliner Dance Set Irish 7pm Paul St Junction, Celtic The Nugent Larry & O'Brien Patsy Paul St Junction, Celtic The Music Live 9:30pm Paul St. Pub, Dubliner Harmony New Jud’s 9:30pm Mpls Pub, Kieran’s 26 26 Session 8pm Celtic Mpls Rest, Merlins Trio Dominic’s St. 9:30pm Mpls Pub, Kieran’s Bhoys Colonial Wild 9:30pm Mpls Pub, O’Donovan’s Music Live 9:30pm Paul St. Pub, Dubliner 2 Session 8pm Celtic Mpls Rest, Merlins Music Live 9:30pm Paul St. Pub, Dubliner Comfort Northern 9:30pm Mpls Pub, Kieran’s
25 25 Quiz Pub 6:30pm Quiz Pub 8pm Mpls Pub, Keegan’s Malloys Tim 8pm The St. Paul Rec, Time Half Music Live 9:30pm Paul St. Pub, Dubliner 1 Quiz Pub 6:30pm Quiz Pub 8pm Mpls Pub, Keegan’s Music Live 9:30pm Paul St. Pub, Dubliner 24 24 Session Irish 7pm Traditional Northfield Cafe, Brothers Hogan Lessons Dance Set 7:30pm Mpls Ctr, Dance Folk Tapestry Quiz Pub 7:30pm Mpls Rest, Merlins Dancing Social Irish 7:30pm Ginny & Dahill Tom 9:30pm Johnson Paul St. Pub, Dubliner 31 Session Irish 7pm Traditional Northfield Cafe, Brothers Hogan Lessons Dance Set 7:30pm Mpls Ctr, Dance Folk Tapestry Quiz Pub 7:30pm Mpls Rest, Merlins Dancing Social Irish 7:30pm Ginny & Dahill Tom 9:30pm Johnson Paul St. Pub, Dubliner 23 23 Hour Irish 5:30pm Pub Merlins Quiz Pub 7:30pm Mpls Pub, Keegan’s Trio St. Dominic’s Mpls Nye’s, 30 Hour Irish 5:30pm Pub Merlins Quiz Pub 7:30pm Mpls Pub, Keegan’s Trio St. Dominic’s Mpls Nye’s, 22 22 29
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Northwoods Songs: Irish Songs from Lumberjacks and Great Lakes Sailors By Brian Miller
My research has been primarily in songs that were collected from men (and some women) who lived in the white pine region that stretched from New Brunswick, Canada west through northern Minnesota/northern Ontario. There was a whole culture of singing in lumber camps and on Great Lakes ships throughout the 1800s that was hugely influenced by the Irish ballad tradition and celebrated much of the Irish ballad repertoire while also adding new North American songs based on the old ones. Lots of the singers were Irish too. In the Midwest it was mainly second-generation guys - children of famine immigrants in many cases. That's the stuff I plan on drawing on for the series. And there's a lot of it! Once you include Wisconsin, Ontario, Michigan, Upstate New York, Maine and New Brunswick there are piles of great songs out there.
Lost 88-Year-Old Recordings of Irish-Minnesotan Singer Rediscovered
This is my fifth column here and, for this month, I have some exciting news that I would like to share rather than posting another song. I recently came upon some astounding recordings! Here is the story: The texts of all four songs that have appeared in this column so far came from The Flying Cloud, a songster (simple, text-only song book) printed in 1922 by singer/lumberjack/saloon-keeper Michael Cassius Dean in Virginia, Minnesota. We would not know much about what Dean’s songs (and singing) sounded like if we only had his book. Luckily, in the summer of 1923, groundbreaking song collector Franz Rickaby, English professor at the University of North Dakota, visited Dean in Virginia, Minnesota. Rickaby transcribed, from Dean’s singing, the melodies and words to 27 songs and took down some sparse but helpful notes about Dean’s life and the story behind some songs. Rickaby’s notes on Dean gave me a starting point to figure out more about Dean’s life, and since so little is known about these early Irish lumberjack singers in Minnesota, it seemed like a worthwhile project. That was my thought back in 2009 when I began searching for everything I could find about Michael C. Dean. Using census documents, newspaper archives from Minnesota and New York State (where he was born) and correspondence with a descendant of his brother, I have been able to learn a great deal. His parents were both from County Mayo. He was born in St. Lawrence County, New York around 1858. By 1885 he was based in Hinckley, Minnesota. He moved to Pine City, Minnesota in 1907 and then to Virginia, Minnesota in 1917 where he stayed until his death in 1931. I have many more wonderful details, but let’s move on to the big news. This July, I came upon an online database of scanned New York State newspapers. I was using it to find out more about Dean’s family in St. Lawrence County. One day, I was searching for articles about his brother-in-law John Bird when I found the article to the right. It is from a September 16, 1924 issue of the Canton Commercial Advertiser . The R.W. Gordon mentioned in the article was Robert Winslow Gordon, field recording pioneer and founding head of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress! Gordon’s collection of
www.IMDAwww.IMDA----MN.orgMN.org Irish Music & 9 Dance Association recordings is housed at what is now called the American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress. However, there is no mention of any recordings of Dean in the catalog of the AFC… I contacted Ann Hoog at the AFC and she found a section of the Gordon recording collection labeled “Miscellaneous.” Among hundreds of tracks in that section were two labeled simply “Dean-man” and three labeled “Mr. Dean.” My friend Deirdre Ní Chonghaile was kind enough to go in and listen to the “Dean” tracks and surrounding unlabeled tracks on the reel-to-reel tapes that were made from Gordon’s original wax cylinders in the 1970s. Deirdre compared voices and also sent me first lines of songs which I was able to compare to his book to find matches. It turns out that there are, at least, 31 songs recorded from Michael Dean’s singing that day in 1924 on the tapes! You can imagine my excitement when I found out I was going to hear the singing voice of this man I have been researching for three years! Digital research copies of Library of Congress recordings are not cheap… but they arrived in the mail last Thursday. It is just amazing to hear his voice and I really enjoy his singing. He has great personality in his style and he definitely sounds Irish in the way he pronounces words and in how he ornaments his songs—he is very light and agile on some tracks especially. (There are also telling discrepancies between the recordings and the Rickaby transcriptions of the same songs.) Gordon only captured a verse or two of most songs in order to save valuable space and the sound quality is, well, 88-year-old wax. Still, to hear recordings of so many songs from a singer who was born in 1858 and lived in Minnesota for most of his life is just priceless. I can’t wait to learn every one of them!
You can read Northwoods Songs online at www.evergreentrad.com/northwoods-songs
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eili orner By Bhloscaidh O’Keane
First Saturday Afternoon Céilí - Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue in Saint Paul, from 2:00 to 5:00. The suggested donation is $2.00 per person. The dances are taught and called by Paul McCluskey.
First Saturday Night Set Dancing Céilí - The Celtic Junction, 836 Prior Ave., No, St. Paul.
Third Saturday Night Céilí - The Celtic Junction, 836 Prior Ave., No, St. Paul.
Irish Dance Classes:
Céilí Dancing - Wednesday Nights
Dubliner Irish Pub - 2162 University Avenue in Saint Paul. Learn Irish dancing in a genuine Irish pub with a wooden floor that has known a whole lot of dancing feet. Steps and dances are taught by Súin Swann. Basic beginning steps are taught beginning at 7:30 (please note the time change), with advanced lessons and dancing continuing until 9:30 PM. Year-round; no children, and must be of legal drinking age. Free.
Set Dancing - Wednesday Nights
Tapestry Folk Dance Center - 3748 Minnehaha Avenue in Minneapolis. This class is taught by Tim McAndrews and runs as an eight week course starting on March 7. The cost is $40 per person for eight weeks. The class runs from 7:30 to 9:00 PM.
The Center for Irish Music
Come check us out at The Celtic Junction 836 Prior Avenue, St Paul MN
Please check the website for information on our full range of instruction in traditional Irish music, language , culture and fun.
For class schedule and other information call or email 651-815-0083 [email protected]
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IMDA Honors: Kieran Folliard Staurday, November 24th Celtic Juntion, St. Paul, MN
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Call Lisa at 612.990.3122 if you would like to volunteer or assist on the planning committee!
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