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Irish Festival Concert
The 10th Annual Sean-nós Northwest Traditional Irish Festival is pleased to offer a concert featuring performances by guest workshop instructors. Join us for an evening of traditional music, singing, dancing, and storytelling. Expected performers include:
SEAN-NÓS SINGING: DOIMNIC MAC GIOLLA BHRÍDE
Doimnic is a well known sean-nós singer from Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal who was the winner of Corn Uí Riada, the Oireachtas sean-nós singing competition, in 2009. He has been immersed in the culture of his native home from a young age and has taken guidance from well known local sean-nós singers like Caitlín Ní Dhomhnaill and Lillis Ó Laoire. He has performed in many festivals and concerts in Ireland and thoughout Europe in the past few years.
SEAN-NÓS SINGING: SEÁN WILLIAMS
Seán has been studying the Irish language and sean-nós singing since the 1970s. She worked closely with the great sean-nós singer Joe Heaney in the final years of his life, and has recently co-written with Lillis Ó Laoire a critical and award-winning biography of Heaneys life and works (Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song-Man from Oxford University Press). A previous book, Focus: Traditional Irish Music (Routledge 2010) is currently in use in a number of universities in Ireland and North America. And her The Ethnomusicologists Cookbook: Complete Meals from Around the World was named one of the New York Times Top 20 Cookbooks of 2006. She is a professor of Irish Studies and ethnomusicology at The Evergreen State College.
TRADITIONAL SINGING: COLLEEN RANEY
Born into a family where Irish music and dance were part of the fabric of everyday life, learning songs from her older siblings was very much a part of Raney's formative years. Colleen began her musical career with her oldest brother Mark, who studied with legendary singer and song collector Joe Heaney. After attaining her MFA in Acting from the University of Washington, and working as a professional actor for a decade, Colleen dove back into the traditional music world with her first album Linnet in 2008. Her 2013 release Here This is Home is without question one of the finest works in recent years. Colleen has toured extensively, both at home and abroad. Highlights have included The KVMR Grass Valley Celtic Festival, Maine Celtic Celebration, Winston-Salem Celtic Festival, Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts, and Seattles respected Northwest Folklife Festival, where she was a regular performer from 1980 to 2013. Her music can be heard on radio from Italy, to Ireland, to New York, to Hawaii, to Japan and all parts in between.
SEAN-NÓS DANCING: SHANNON DUNNE
Shannon is a renowned teacher of sean-nós/percussive dance. She has studied Connemara sean-nós dance (through funding by the DCCAH) with Pádraig Ó hOibicín, Róisín Ní Mhainín, Mick Mulkerrin & Máiréad Casey; Clare battering with Aidan Vaughan; and Munster (old-style) step dance with Patrick ODea. She also studied flatfooting/clogging with Eileen Carson, Megan Downes and Christine Galante. She is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the 2008 Dance Fellowship and multiple Folk Arts Grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She is on the roster of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and was the recipient of a 2006 Performers Grant from the University of Milwaukee.
SEAN-NÓS DANCING: ALICIA GUINN
Alicia currently teaches sean-nós, set, and céilí dancing in the Seattle area. She is one of only a handful of dancers teaching sean-nós dancing in America. Alicia started dancing as an adult while living in Northern Ireland in 1997. Since then, she has studied set and sean-nós dancing in Galway, Ireland, taught Irish dance workshops for festivals across the United States, and had the honor of dancing on stage with traditional musicians like Johnny B. Connolly, Kevin Burke, Dale Russ, and Liz Carroll and John Doyle. Her sean-nós style incorporates steps learned directly from Galway dancers including Pádraig Ó hOibicín, Róisín Ní Mhainín, Máire Áine Ní Iarnáin, Rónán Regan, and Seosamh Ó Neachtain.
IRISH FIDDLE: RANDAL BAYS
Randal Bays is an American musician who's been playing Irish fiddle for more than thirty years. He's now widely recognized as a master of that complex and ancient art, in particular the fiddle styles of rural western Ireland. He has worked with such greats as James Keane, James Kelly, Gearoid O'hAllmhurain, Roger Landes, Martin Hayes, John Williams, Daithi Sproule, and the late Michéal O'Domhnaill. Besides his touring and recording successes, including concerts and festival in the U.S., Europe and Canada, Randal is a highly respected as a teacher of Irish fiddle. Some of his students have gone on to become performers and teachers themselves, helping to extend and deepen the tradition of Irish fiddle music in North America. Bays co-founded and directed the Friday Harbor Irish Music Week for ten years, and is currently the Program Director of the Cascadia Irish Music Week (now based at The Evergreen State College as well). He's taught at most of the important Irish music camps in the U.S. and Canada.
IRISH ACCORDION: FELIM EGAN
Felim was born Ballinasloe, County Galway and raised in Cloghan, County Offaly (west Offaly). His father has a passion for music and encouraged him to play. He began lessons at the age of four with his father and then with a local Offaly fiddler Dan Cleary. He comes from a family of five children, all well accomplished musicians. He has many musical influences which include Matt Molley, Tommy Peoples, Charlie Lennon and Frankie Gavin, to mention a few. In 1993 he moved to Portland where he played his first gigs with Robert Soper and Aidan Brennan and was a regular at Mikey Beglans East Avenue Tavern session. He started composing tunes in the early 1990s. Felim is a regular fixture in Irish traditional music in Portland.
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LocationThe Recital Hall at the Communications Building, Evergreen State College (View)
2700 Evergreen Pkwy. NW
Olympia, WA 98505
United States
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