DEAR CIM STUDENTS, FAMILIES & FRIENDS,
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July has been a beautiful month of fresh air and sunshine-filled days. I hope you've been enjoying the weather by playing a few tunes on your front porch.
The photo above is from last week's
summer ensemble camp when 18 young musicians spent a week together to learning about musicians from each of the four provinces of Ireland, plus a new tune every day. The future is looking bright for trad music with these young ones! Check out the beautiful photos on the Facebook
photo album.
Thank you
for supporting CIM's summer "bringing the tradition home" fundraising campaign. Your generous gifts will provide scholarships to CIM students to attend Scoil Éigse, a 4-day immersive music workshop before the All-Ireland
Fleadh Cheoil
competitions in Drogheda and help CIM instructor, Brian Miller, to direct the 15-18 ceili band rehearsals. We are very proud of the incredible young musicians who will be representing Minnesota in Ireland!
On Saturday morning, July 28th CIM and the Two Tap Trio hosted our first ever
Irish music interactive kids show at Can Can Wonderland. The show featured tunes and beloved songs from the Celtic Cuties and Singing Sweeties class that I've been collecting over the past decade of teaching Irish music to young kids, with recent support from CIM instructor Alisa Mee. We hope to collaborate with Can Can again on this, and thanks to Claire Vanorny for dancing (with me....)!
I look forward to seeing you all at the Irish Fair of Minnesota, only 9 days away. Be sure to take a couple of
volunteer slots at the CIM booth if you can. If you have more time, the Irish Fair is looking for volunteers as well!
Norah Rendell
Executive Artistic Director
Center for Irish Music
*CIM students: The "
students
" page on our website will now be updated on a weekly basis. We request that current students bookmark this page and check in regularly to find out about upcoming dates, deadlines, events and student-related announcements, such as the upcoming
financial aid deadline of August 15th
! Thank you!
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Irish Fair Volunteers Needed!
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Each year in August we celebrate all things Irish at the Irish Fair of Minnesota. We hope you will join us for a weekend full of family-friendly music, dance, crafts, sports, and fun with friends.
We are asking for your help in staffing our information booth to spread the word about the Center for Irish Music's classes and programs.
This is a wonderful way to meet fellow CIM students and families AND to share your enthusiasm for CIM with fair passers-by.
Plan on joining us all three days of the fair to hear great music from our ensembles and instructors - and to cheer them on! See our student and instructor schedules below, or view the complete Irish Fair performance schedule on the
Irish Fair's website
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CIM Student Performances at the Irish Fair
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10
4:00 - 5:00 PM
Advanced Youth Ensemble
River Stage
5:00 - 5:30 PM
TBA
Triscéil Tea Room
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 11
10:30 - 11:30 AM
Advanced Youth Ensemble
Main Stage
2:00 - 2:30 PM
Young Adult Ensemble
Triscéil Tea Room
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 12
10:00 - 10:45 AM
Open Sky Ensemble
Main Stage Tea Room
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
An Luan
Pub Tent
2:00 - 2:30 PM
TBA
Triscéil Tea Room
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CIM Instructor Performances at the Irish Fair
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10
6:00 - 6:30 PM
Common Reel
(Mary Vanorny)
Triscéil Tea Room
SATURDAY, AUGUST 11
10:30-11:00 AM
Dorain (Iain Dove Lempke)
Triscéil Tea Room
12:00 - 12:30
Dunquin (Rosa Wells)
Triscéil Tea Room
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Norah Rendell & the
Lost Forty
(Norah Rendell, Brian Miller)
1:30 - 2:00 PM
Captain Kaliber (Mary Vanorny, John McCormick)
River Stage
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Dáithí Sproule
Guitar Accompaniment for Irish Songs
IMDA Workshop Tent
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3:00 - 3:30 PM
Captain Kaliber (Mary Vanorny, John McCormick)
River Stage
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Dunquin (Rosa Wells)
Music of Donegal
IMDA Workshop Tent
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Altan (Dáithí Sproule)
Main Stage
4:00 - 4:30 PM
Rúpálaí (Chad McAnally)
Triscéil Tea Room
6:00 - 7:00 PM
Danielle Enblom
Irish Dance & Multiculturalism
Eóin McKiernan Speaker's Tent
SUNDAY, AUGUST 12
11:00 - 11:30 AM
Tom Klein
Triscéil Tea Room
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Hannah Flowers
Singing in the Irish Language with Harp
IMDA Workshop Tent
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12:00 - 1:00 PM
Brass Lassie (Mary Vanorny)
Main Stage
12:30 - 1:30 PM
HiBs (Jode Dowling)
River Stage
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Charlie Heymann
Songs of Parting
IMDA Workshop Tent
1:00 - 1:30 PM
Hannah Flowers
Triscéil Tea Room
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Upset & Curl
(Hannah Flowers, Cory Froehlich, Danielle Enblom)
River Stage
4:00 - 5:00 PM
Charlie Heymann
Songs of Scotland
IMDA Workshop Tent
6:00 - 7:00 PM
Altan (Dáithí Sproule)
Main Stage
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Please join us on August 26th from 2-5 pm for our annual open house!
Take part in 15 minute class demos, meet our instructors, staff and board, take part in an instrument or class demo, register for fall classes, or join an informal session!
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SEPTEMBER 22, 2018
Join the members of Trian - Liz Carroll, Billy McComiskey and Dáithí Sproule - for a day of Traditional Irish music.
WORKSHOPS
Workshops in fiddle, accordion, guitar, song, and tunes for all instruments. All ages are welcome!
$35/workshop when you register by August 31st • $40 after August 31st
INTERVIEW | 2:30 pm
Interview with Liz Carroll by Dáithí Sproule
$15 when you register by August 31st • $18 after August 31st
CONCERT | 7:30 pm
Don't miss this opportunity to hear Trian in concert featuring compositions by Grammy-nominated fiddler, Liz Carroll, songs by Dáithí Sproule of award-winning band, Altan, and the virtuosic playing of Billy McComiskey.
$20 before August 31st • $25 after August 31st • $10 youth (18 & under)
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UPCOMING CONCERTS & EVENTS
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FRIDAY - SUNDAY, AUGUST 10-12
CIM at the Irish Fair of Minnesota!
CIM ensembles, instructor performances, and marketplace booth.
FRIDAY - SATURDAY, AUGUST 10-11
Hannah Flowers
Friday - 3:30 pm (Harp Stage)
Saturday - 4:30 pm (Harp Stage)
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FRIDAY-SATURDAY, AUGUST 17-18
Hannah Flowers
Friday - 7:15 pm (Harp Stage)
Saturday - 1:45 pm (Gaeltacht Stage), 3:00 pm (Harp Stage)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 26 | 2-5 PM
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The Center for Irish Music is a 501c3 nonprofit, and we depend on your support to continue passing down the tradition of Irish music and song. Please consider joining us as a volunteer or making a gift to the CIM today!
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This activity is made
possible by the voters of
Minnesota through
a Minnesota State Arts
Board Operating Support
grant, thanks to a
legislative appropriation
from the arts and
cultural heritage fund.
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