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Session Rita Farrell, Colm McGonigle, Martin Fahy London Irish Centre (Hub) Sun 29th Oct – 7.30pm Free

Session Mick O’Connor, Caroline Regan, Joe O’Donnell The Colin Campbell Sun 29th Oct – 8.30pm Free

From Dublin, Jerry O’Reilly s our resident dancing master this year. He was a founder member of Brooks Academy in 1982, where he still teaches a weekly dance class He has taught dancing in Paris to the Association Irlandaise since 1988, at the Willie Clancy Summer School since 1984, at Whitby Festival every year since […]

Banjo Workshop Brian McGrath London Irish Centre Sun 29th 11am -1pm Tickets: http://bit.ly/2xWHSRh £10 / £6 under 18s

Primarily a harpist, multi-instrumentalist Janet Harbison was born in Dublin in 1955. By 1981, she had won every Irish national harp competition and a number of international prizes, including the Isle of Man Millennium Competition and Festival International de l’Harpe Celtique (Awen Trophy). She studied at Trinity College, Dublin, Dublin College of Music and Cork […]

Aoife, began playing the violin at a very young age and was a member of Young European Strings. She studied with Maeve Broderick in Dublin and Constantin Serban in France, where she was awarded the Prix D’Or for exceptional students. She has performed extensively as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the […]

Maitiú Ó Casaide is part of The Bonny Men, formed in early 2011 and rapidly became one of the most talked about and exciting acts to emerge in the Irish trad/folk music scene. The seven musicians – Turlough Chambers, Natalie Ní Chasaide, Conor Lyons, Moss Landman, Adam Whelan, Maitiú Ó Casaide and Barry Lyons – have […]

Brian Hughes is widely considered to be one of the finest tin whistle players of his generation. From Athy in Co. Kildare, his earliest introduction to music was through his grandfather, Christy Bracken, a noted bagpipe player, In addition to the tin whistle, Brian has a great interest in the flute and the uilleann pipes […]

Tulla accordionist, Andrew Mac Namara and London fiddler, Karen Ryan first met and played music together at the Feakle Traditional Music Festival in 1991. Over the 25 years since then, they’ve played together on and off in Feakle, Galway and London. During the last few years, Andrew and Karen have been joined by Karen’s husband, […]

Flute Workshop Conor Healy London Irish Centre Sun 29th Oct 11am – 1pm Tickets: http://bit.ly/2fF6m6E £10 / £6 under 18s