2012 Core Tune List We’ve come up with some core tunes for the 2012 Portal Irish Music Festival. These are generally “common” tunes, and our hope is that students either already know these tunes, or can try to learn at least the “bullseye” tunes prior to the festival. Read more…
2012 Camp Registration Form We are now taking registration signups for the Portal Irish Music week 2012. Signing up in advance will help us plan lodging and activities better. You will be required to put a $100 (USD) down payment on your tuition, within 15 days of your registration. You Read more…
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A product of County Offaly, in Ireland, Paddy O’Brien is regarded by serious players and collectors of Irish traditional music as one of the tradition’s most important repositories; in a career that spans nearly fifty years, he has collected more than 3,000 compositions—jigs, reels, hornpipes, airs, and marches, including many Read more…
Turlach Boylan is the oldest in a musical family from Glenullin, Co Derry, but has lived in the USA since 1989. He is an accomplished player of flute, tenor banjo, and mandolin. Turlach made a couple of flute albums and the magazine Dirty Linen said something complimentary. Since moving to Read more…
Dain Forsythe performed and taught bodhrán throughout the Southeast, placing first at the 2006 Southeastern Regional Irish Music Competition in Atlanta and later accompanied flute/whistle instructor, John Skelton (of The House Band), during his evening performance at the 2006 Southeastern Pipers’ Club Tionól. After relocating to New Mexico a few Read more…