2006 Summer Music Classes
with Deirdre Harnedy
Classes will run June 11 - 28, 2006.
Classes will meet at Unity Center of Columbia, 1600 West Broadway.
Beginning fiddle: Sunday and Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
Improvers fiddle: Monday and Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.
Beginning tin whistle and flute: Monday and Wednesday at 5:30p.m.
Improvers tin whistle and flute: Monday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.She will also teach "Tunes By Ear" for all instruments once a week on Tuesday evenings from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
The fee for each class is $45. Tunes by ear can be attended on a drop-in basis for $15 per session.
For all classes: please bring a tape recorder to class. Sheet music will be provided for all the tunes that are taught.
We have one fiddle available for rent, and tin whistles can be purchased for $10 each.
To register: send an e-mail to kakers@moceltic.org
Private lessons are also available for flute, whistle, and fiddle. Times are arranged individually with Deirdre. Private lessons are $25 per hour lesson or 5 lessons for $100, paid in advance.
Deirdre Harnedy is from West Cork, near Bantry in southwestern Ireland and has been playing Irish traditional music on flute, tin whistle and fiddle for 16 years. She particularly appreciates and loves to play the Sliabh Luachra (shleeve loo'-kra) style polkas and slides that are peculiar to southwestern Ireland, and claims a fondness for other "strange local tunes."
Deirdre is a 2005 graduate of University College Cork in Music and Italian. She has been teaching music for the Cork City branch of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann for several years, and since graduating has been teaching music in public schools as well.
Deirdre is no stranger to Columbia; she was our summer artist-in-residence from June 2003 to June 2004, teaching traditional music and Irish language to many students in mid-Missouri.