Central Missouri Celtic Arts Association Newsletter
August 21, 2003 www.moceltic.org
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In this issue:
* Concert Friday - Luck Penny with special guests!
* Kirksville events, Saturday and Sunday
* Fall Classes
* KC Irish Fest, Aug 29-30
* Southwest Missouri Celtic Heritage Festival and Highland Games, September 6, 2003Recent newsletters:
January 7, 2008
Nov. 28, 2007
October 31, 2007
October 10, 2007
August 30, 2007
August 10, 2007
July 31, 2007
June 6, 2007
May 11, 2007
April 13, 2007
March 29, 2007Ya wanna see more?
Here's the whole archive.Concert this Friday, August 22, 8 p.m.
Sacred Heart Activity Bldg, 1115 Locust St., Columbia
$8 CMCAA members and students / $10 public, kids 14 & under are free.Bake sale break Irish tea, lemonade, scones and other goodies will be available at the break for ever-so-reasonable costs!
Wrap up the summer and welcome in the autumn with a great evening of fun and music!
Luck Penny
, the Irish traditional band that formed early this summer with our artists-in-residence Deirdre Harnedy and Helen Gubbins, along with local musician Austin Dey will play a full length concert Friday night of traditional tunes and songs from Ireland. In the spirit of The Chieftains, they've gathered some special guests to join them for your musical delectation. Here's a bit about their guestsTim Langen,
exceptional fiddler and professor of Russian language at MU, came to Columbia a few years ago from Chicago, where he played regularly with folks like Liz Carroll and Larry Nugent. He learned Irish fiddle from his grandfather and carries a seemingly bottomless wealth of tunes in his head.Brian Hart
grew up in St. Louis and participated in the St. Louis Irish Arts program (www.slia.org), learning traditional singing and button accordion. Since then he's studied singing and Irish language in Ireland and completed his undergraduate degree at University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin. Since 2001 he's been performing with the highly acclaimed Milwaukee-based band Anam Ri. (Anam Ri performed at First Night Columbia on this past New Years' Eve.) Last August Brian competed in the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil and became the first American and youngest person in the history of the Fleadh Cheoil to win the senior level ballad singing competition. Over the summer he's been in Connemara studying Irish language very intensely and in the fall he starts his Masters degree in traditional music performance at University of Limerick.If Brian hadn't succumbed to homesickness and returned from Ireland in time for the Milwaukee Irish Fest, he would probably be competing again in the Fleadh this weekend. But, to our great good fortune, he's home for a few weeks and has agreed to come sing with Luck Penny Friday evening!
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Events in Kirksville, Saturday and Sunday, Aug 23-24
Luck Penny will play Irish trad music at Il Spazio restaurant in Kirksville Saturday evening, 8 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Red Barn Ceilidh in Kirksville Sunday, 1230 p.m.
Music provided by Kirksville Irish session group, Helen, Deirdre and anyone else who would like to come and join in! Christine Harker will be calling and teaching some ceilidh and set dances.
Come to play, dance or just hang out and have a good time!
Location Red Barn Park, Kirksville
Rain site SUB Down Under, Kirksville
For more info, contact Rebecca Murphy 660-627-4206; srmurphy@cableone.netIf you would like to attend the ceilidh on Sunday and are interested in sharing a ride to Kirksville and back, send an e-mail to Kate Akers and I'll get people hooked up.
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Fall Classes
Deirdre and Helen are returning to Ireland in September to attend their graduation and fetch some winter clothes, then they will be back at the beginning of October. Christine Harker's set dancing class and Helen and Deirdre's music and language classes will all begin again the first week of October, broken into two 5-week sessions.
You will be able to sign up for classses via the web site within the next two weeks. Here is the list of classes we plan to offer if there is sufficient interest. All classes are open to all ages, except the kids dancing class.
Set/ceilidh dancing
Ceilidh and set dance for kids 7 - 12
Beginning Irish language
Irish language continuation (for anyone who has taken a beginning level class before)
Beginning, intermediate and advanced tin whistle classes
Beginning and intermediate fiddle
Irish music accompaniment (for guitar, piano)
Learning music by ear
History of Irish music (background on evolution of the music, European and other roots and influences, important figures/composers, social and political context and influences on the music and more. This should be a very interesting class for musicians or non-musicians.)The set/ceilidh dance class will be held on Thursday evenings. The others will be on Monday and Tuesday evenings. Please check the web site over the next week or so for details.
Pre-registration is requested so we will know if we have enough people to make each class work.
Ellie Grace will also be teaching Irish step dancing beginning in October. For information, contact her directly egrace@coin.org
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Kansas City Irish Fest, Labor Day Weekend
A GREAT festival is afoot in Kansas City for August 30-31. You only have to drive two hours to see a whole bevy of fantastic bands and performers! How cool is that??
The entertainment lineup includes 29 different acts from the O'Riada Irish Dancers to worldwide touring traditional bands Solas, Teada and Cherish the Ladies, and a slew of "Celtic rock" style bands such as Seven Nations and The Elders.
For the whole story, see www.kcirishfest.com
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Southwest Missouri Celtic Heritage Festival and Highland Games
Buffalo, MO September 6, 2003.
A full day of Scottish athletic competitions, herding demonstrations, highland dancing and performers. Music includes Red McWilliams (comedy and ballads), The Boatrights, piping and Celtic Society of the Ozarks storteller Todd Wilkinson.
See the web site for details and directions.
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