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2020 Instructors
The 2020 Instructors have been announced, including a new face – We’re grateful to have bouzouki player, Frances Cunningham, teaching accompaniment in 2020!
The 2020 Instructors have been announced, including a new face – We’re grateful to have bouzouki player, Frances Cunningham, teaching accompaniment in 2020!
Frances’ general accompaniment class will help musicians of any instrument understand chord theory and how to use them more creatively, to tell a story in both tunes and songs. We will focus on rhythms as well and how to effectively use rhythm to set a mood. It’s not so different Read more…
Frances Cunningham is a Southeast Texas native and fell into Irish music through her father’s love of it. She learned the Irish Bouzouki and became a founding member of the Celtic Rock band SixMileBridge which recorded and toured heavily from the late 90s into the 2000s. She moved to Nashville Read more…
Kevin’s class will break down the basics of flute and whistle playing, and teach you techniques for generating good tone, breathing, and using ornaments to create expression and style in your playing.
Kevin is a true powerhouse in this music. Most people know him for his 21 year (and still running) stint as flute, whistle, and bodhran player with Lúnasa. But his resume shows much more than that! Kevin has four solo albums, and numerous other recordings with the likes of Cillian Read more…