Workshops & Master Classes
Bookings will open early September 2023.
Fiddle Masterclass Tutor 2023 - Fergal Scahill
O15 Performance Master Class Tutor 2023 - Ryan Molloy
Full list of tutors & instruments to be announced shortly.
Fiddle Masterclass Tutor 2023 - Fergal Scahill
O15 Performance Master Class Tutor 2023 - Ryan Molloy
Full list of tutors & instruments to be announced shortly.
Performance Master Classes
The Master Class focuses on advanced players only and is open to all instruments.
Below are clips from a previous Performance Master Classes
Below are clips from a previous Performance Master Classes
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Concertina - Aileen BourkeSenior All-Ireland Champion Concertina player, Aileen Bourke is a graduate from the Irish Music and Dance course at the University of Limerick where she obtained a first class honors degree.
In recent years she has played extensively throughout Ireland, the UK and America. Aileen took home All-Ireland fleadh medals for 5 consecutive years and was fortunate enough to become the senior concertina all Ireland champion at the 2019 Fleadh Ceoil in Drogheda. |
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Accordion - Tom DohertyTom Doherty comes from a musical family in Foxford. He started to learn the accordion from Martin Donoghue when he was four years old. Tom won his first All-Ireland on the concertina. He also has an All-Ireland title on the Melodion. A full-time professional musician, sound engineer and music teacher, he has toured extensively in Ireland, Europe and the U.S. Tom's music is featured on numerous television recordings and CDs.
Tom is the musical director of the junior and teenage performance group, Glór na Sí. |
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Fiddle - David DooceyBorn in Worcester, Massachusetts and now living in Foxford, County Mayo, David Doocey is at the forefront of a younger generation of musicians.
He has won several awards including All-Ireland medals on both fiddle and concertina and the first ever World Fleadh fiddle championship in 2005. He has also achieved success in the much coveted Feile Oriel trophy, an award previously held by Tommy Peoples. He is featured on many recordings and has recorded in Nashville with Grammy award winners Tim O’Brien and Allison Brown on Gráda’s ‘Natural Angle’ which was named in NPR’s top ten folk albums of 2010. In the last number of years he has performed on stage with Michael McGoldrick, Tim O’Brien, Martin Hayes, Sean Keane, Dougie MacLean, Dermot Byrne, Sharon Shannon and many other world renowned musicians. |
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Flute - Stephen DohertyStephen Doherty hails from Foxford and he began learning music at the age of 4 and through his teenage years began to accumulate numerous all-Ireland medals on whistle, bodhrán, drums, accordion and is a two time All-Ireland winning Champion on Melodeon and is a senior All-Ireland Champion on the flute.
In the past few years he has shared the stage with artists like, Lúnasa, Sean Keane, Dolores Keane, We Banjo 3, Dougie MacLean, Michael McGoldrick, Dermot Byrne, Slide, Sharon Shannon and has had recording sessions in Nashville with Alison Brown and Tim O’Brien. |
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Banjo - Brian ScahillOne of Ireland's finest banjo players, Brian is the banjo player with the Swallow's Tail Céilí Band. He is a much sought-after tutor, teaching at various summer Schools around Ireland including the Willie Clancey Summer School.
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Some of the Classes from Previous Years
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David Doocey guides participants through all aspects of group and stage performance with a focus on arrangement, technique composition etc. This clip was recorded during the 2017 master class.
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'Hands on Harp' Event
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Laoise Kelly
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Previous Master Class Tutors Noel Hill, Michael McGoldrick and Dezi Donnelly and Michael Rooney with their Master Classes
Full details of events on tel. 086 3999774 / Email foxfordtraditionalweekend@gmail.com