The Manx Heritage Foundation Music Development Team is holding a workshop weekend for musicians based at the MHF offices at The University Centre Stable Building (Nunnery site) this weekend 9-11 March. The workshops will be led by Donegal singer Noeleen Ni Cholla and Belfast-based dancer and instrumentalist Tim Flaherty. Both experienced tutors, the pair are looking forward to their first visit to the Island. Noeleen has performed all around the world and with a whole host of well-known singers from the Gaelic world. She will be teaching Irish solo and harmony (choral) singing and will help lead a Bree youth trad music session. A dancer who performs with Belfast’s All Set, Tim will teach both set-dancing and sean nos (step) dancing to people with some previous experience. Tim will also teach Irish tunes to any instrument as well as to the Bree youth music session.
Contact Breesha on: mhfmusic(AT)mhf.org.im or 695784 to reserve a place. Young musicians can join in the Bree youth music session. All other workshops are for adult musicians only.
The weekend will finish with a gig on Sunday 11 March at 7.30pm (tickets on the door)
Programme for the weekend:
Friday 9 March
19.30-21.30 Irish set dancing (for dancers with basic knowledge) in conjunction with Theatrix, South Douglas Old Friends (downstairs room), Finch Road
Saturday 10 March (Nunnery Chapel, off Old Castletown Road)
13.45-14.45 Irish song session / Irish tunes for any instrument
15.00-16.30 Bree trad youth session
Sunday 11 March (Nunnery Chapel, off Old Castletown Road)
14.00-15.00 Irish song session (solo) / sean nos dancing
15.15-16.15 Irish song session (choral) / sean nos dancing
19.30-21.00 Concert of Irish and Manx music, song and dance ?5 / ?2 on the door
To find the Nunnery Chapel and MHF offices, come through the main gates at the Nunnery site – now marked as The University Centre. Before you get to the main building which houses the International Business School, you will see a set of buildings around a courtyard – the entrance is in the courtyard at the top left hand corner!
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