Cascadia Irish Music Week
Cascadia Irish Music Week 2020 will be held from July 19 through 25, 2020 at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington ... we look forward to seeing you!
Think of Irish traditional music as a language, and Cascadia Irish Music Week as an immersion program. At Cascadia you will hear the music all week long, played by the teaching staff and by fellow students. You'll play in sessions, attend classes, hear afternoon talks by the teachers plus intimate evening concerts. By the end of the week you'll come away with some new tunes and a deeper sense of how the music feels and sounds, as well as advice on technique from excellent musicians. All that plus a week of great fun with wonderful people!
2019 Teaching StaffMairead Casey - sean-nos + step-dancing Tim Collins - Anglo concertina Pauline Conneely - banjo/mandolin Johnny Og Connolly - button accordion Frank Kilkelly - guitar accompaniment Plus introductory classes in Fiddle (Eileen Sullivan)
Tin whistle (Miray Campbell)
Concertina (Jason Kies)
Uilleann pipes (Wally Charm)
(loaner instruments will be available for the concertina and pipes intro classes) | Artistic DirectorRandal Bays is well known in the worldwide Irish music community as a fiddler and guitarist. He's also famed as a teacher of Irish traditional music, who co-founded and served for ten years as Artistic Director of the Friday Harbor Irish Music Week in Washington's San Juan Islands. Calling on his knowledge of the music and the people in the traditional music world, each year Randal assembles a teaching staff for Cascadia Irish Music Week comprising some of the world's finest Irish musicians.
| Aidan Horowitz, 14, Seattle, Washington Fiddle Alisa Bright, 20, Monroe, Washington Fiddle Amelia Ryan, 10, Portland, Oregon Button accordion Cathal Mee, 14, St. Paul, Minnesota Button accordion Catherine Ryan, 13, Portland, Oregon Fiddle Grace Broadhead, 15, Sandia Park, New Mexico Fiddle |
