AlgomaTrad is a not-for-profit arts

organization that is dedicated to the FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 sharing, celebration, and learning of Old Town Hall, Richards Landing traditional music, dance, art and craft that Potluck Supper - 6pm embrace our Canadian heritage. Irish Kitchen Party/Concert - 7:30pm AlgomaTrad practices inclusivity and followed by nurtures joyous, intergenerational Irish Ceili Dancing - Getting Started! community through living heritage arts.

Contact Us SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Phone: 705-782-4311 Irish WORKSHOPS - 10am to 4:30pm Email: [email protected] Various locations TBA, Richards Landing. Website: www.algomatrad.ca Registration @ Richards Landing Legion: 9am Traditional The Nicholas Missere Bursary Fund helps Workshops in Ceili and Set Dancing for all levels; individuals and families in need to Kids’ and Teen/Adult Stepdancing; Irish Music and and Irish , all levels; partake in AlgomaTrad’s events. Please Sean-Nós (Irish Old Style) Singing. inquire about availability. Dance LUNCH AND GATHERING,

Old Town Hall, 12:30pm - 1:50pm AlgomaTrad is a proud member of Weekend The Arts Council of Sault Ste Marie & District LEGION IRISH STEW SUPPER Details TBA FEB 5 & 6, 2016 IRISH CEIILI (DANCE) Legion Hall, 7:30pm - 11pm Richards Landing, With caller Maureen Mulvey and live music by the Ena O’Brien Ceili Band All-Stars St. Joseph Island

Weekend Pass for all concerts, dances, Two days of concerts, dances, & workshops and Saturday Lunch: $55; $40 students. music and dance workshops for Individual Workshops: $15; all ages with Master callers and $10 students musicians Evening events per night: $15; $10 students

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MORNING WORKSHOPS - SATURDAY, FEB 6 AlgomaTrad INSTRUCTORS/MUSICIANS and Dance Weekend 10am to 12:30pm Maureen Mulvey - originally from Co. Registration Form Instructor 10am - 11:15 11:30 - 12:30 Leitrim, Maureen has been teaching and Name: Set Dance Maureen calling for over 30 years. ______Basics Basics Address: Singing (Irish Irish Colleen Mulvey-O’Leary - Maureen’s Colleen ______old style) Stepdance daughter has been dancing all her life and Phone #: ______*Kids’ Irish helps her mom run Irish dance camps. She Email: ______Sarah* Stepdance has also represented North America in Workshop Choices: Advanced Intermediate Irish Old Style Singing at the Fleadh, a 1______Dan Irish Fiddle national music competition in 2______Beginner Tin Intermediate Ena O’Brien - has been playing 3______Pat whistle Tin Whistle since she was a wee girl in Co. Galway, Signature of Parent/Caregiver/Sibling and has played concerts, dances and Irish (for Kids’ Stepdance program only) AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS - stepdance contests for over 50 years. SATURDAY, FEB 6 ______2pm to 4:30pm Dan MacDonald - is from a renowned Registration Fees family of fiddlers from Cape Breton, but Instructor 2 - 3pm 3:15 - 4:30 Weekend Pass for all concerts, dances, has been involved in the Irish music scene Maureen workshops and Saturday Lunch: $55; in Ohio and around Southern Ontario for and (Squares) $40 students over 20 years. Dan has taught several Colleen Individual Workshops: $15; times at AlgomaTrad. Beginner $10 students; *$5 Kids’ Stepdance w/Sarah* Dan Bodhran Irish Fiddle Sarah Boniferro - teaches Irish Sean Nos Evening events per night: Advanced (old-style) stepdancing to children in Sault Pat $15; $10 students Tin Whistle Ste. Marie as part of the Best Start Hub at Register for weekend passes on-line: Holy Cross School. She has studied this www.algomatrad.ca/buy-tickets/ Note about dance workshops: style of stepdancing in Ireland. OR bring cash or cheque to any concert, Ceili Dancing - is a bit like Irish contra Pat O’Gorman - has been performing and dance, or workshop. dancing - dancers progress in lines, couples teaching tin whistle for 35 years, including or groups of three and repeat a pattern as Make cheques payable to: study in Ireland. He is also founder and they go. Ceili dancing has some specific artistic director of AlgomaTrad with Julie AlgomaTrad footwork that is uniquely Irish. 340 McKinnon Side Rd. Schryer. Desbarats, ON P0R 1E0 Set Dancing - is like square dancing, done in

Contributions to the Nicholas Missere Bursary Fund are squares of 4 couples…lots of swinging but

gratefully appreciated. AlgomaTrad strives to make the some similar moves to old-time squares - in world a kinder place by making music, culture, art and craft fact, Irish set dancing is a grandparent to accessible to everyone. Square dancing! Suitable for ages 9 and up.