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Perhaps you could tell me about last year's fees? Thanks In the brochure it says 140 euro, 140 pounds sterling or 200 USD. That's 5 days of classes for 3 hours per day, and I think the pipes classes continue on Saturday as well, so 6 days. Plus free entry to all the concerts. I've never done the cl...

This is a blog from a friend of mine, but he hasn't updated it in a while: http://bostonsession.blogspot.com/ and even better than just being a blog, it has recordings of tunes & songs!

I have one of Hammy's flutes and when I met him over the summer he took a quick look at it. He seemed to follow the standard that the cork should be the same distance from the center of the embouchure hole as the diameter of the bore of the head joint. For my flute, this would be about 18 mm (just m...

did you find something? sorry, if I'd seen this earlier could've helped... there are a couple good sessions on thurs.

It really depends how you hold the flute. I have small hands and play a Hamilton (Pratten, with large holes and a big stretch) and people are often surprised that I can reach and cover all the holes, but with the way I play I have no problem. Experiment with a few different ways/angles of holding th...

depends on the session. at some the 'usual standard' will be 3x at others 4x. single tunes (no internal repeats) usually get played more times or at a session where the standard is 4x a tune with 5 parts may only get played 3x, etc. there's generally some sort of communication between the players re...

I can't speak for everywhere on the list certainly, but the Cork section is both inaccurate and incomplete suggesting cross-referencing might be in order for anyone going by this...

Brian McGrath and Caoimhin Vallely are both great piano players (an both play other instruments as well), but they're very different stylistically

yeah, the Burren on Sundays and I think there's one in John Harvard's in Cambridge on Tuesdays. also, for music in general, check out what's on at Club Passim (also in Harvard Square, Cambridge).

I have this problem occasionally with my Hammy and what was recommended to me as the best option is stuff called cork wax (basically the opposite of cork grease). However, this might be somewhat hard to come by. What works as a temporary fix is fiddle bow rosin- just pull the head out of the barrel,...

At First Light: http://www.atfirstlight.net/

North Cregg: http://www.northcregg.com/

Gráda: http://www.gradamusic.com/

Boston College Irish Studies Program: http://www.bc.edu/centers/irish/studies/ Fiddler Seamus Connolly is currently in charge of the music performance aspect of the program and he's fantastic. There are performance classes in flute/whistle (taught by Jimmy Noonan) and fiddle (taught by Tina Lech and...

University College Cork or University of Limerick (both in Ireland, obviously) are the only real options if he wants a degree in trad music performance. If he'd be more flexible in degree choice, then there are other options where he'd still be able to do trad music while getting a standard music de...

What you may not have spotted was that the two or three people who are being paid by the pub to host the session will be making sure that the tunes keep on coming, at acceptable (for time and location) tempo, quality and frequency. What is acceptable depends totally on the views of the publican/bar...

From observations playing in Boston (USA) and Cork (Ireland), the difference is more in the nature of the individual session and who turns up on a given night than any characteristics inherent in the country / culture