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Mark Bickford

August 28, 2023 By Ken Fleming

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Information to be posted soon. … [Read more...] about Mark Bickford

Éamonn Coyne

February 27, 2022 By Ken Fleming

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Éamonn Coyne (eamonncoyne.com), who now lives in Edinburgh, is originally from Ireland (Dublin/Roscommon). On his debut solo album, ‘Through the Round Window’ (on Compass Records and released in late 2002) he plays banjo, guitars, and mandolin along with many close friends including Grammy Award winner Alison Brown, Dermot Byrne, Tom Morrow, Ciarán Curran, Kevin Doherty and Michael McGoldrick. … [Read more...] about Éamonn Coyne

Frances Cunningham

January 20, 2019 By Ken Fleming

Frances Cunningham is a native of Southeast Texas and fell into Irish music at an early age. 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 then moved to Nashville where she picked up the Tenor Banjo and since then has gone on to be an in demand accompanist and session … [Read more...] about Frances Cunningham

Dave Curley

January 21, 2019 By Ken Fleming

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Dave Curley is a multi-instrumentalist , singer and songwriter from Co. Galway Ireland. He regularly performs with a number of music ensembles in North America including One for the Foxes, SLIDE, The Crannua Collective, fiddler Finn Magill, the Ashley Davis Band, and with fiddler Colin Farrell. The One for the Foxes album Take A Look Around received Album of the Year from the American Celtic … [Read more...] about Dave Curley

Jim DeWan

February 27, 2022 By Ken Fleming

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Jim DeWan is a multifaceted musician and teacher of strings.  As a guitarist, his driving and melodic accompaniment style has led to performances and recordings with, among many others, Liz Carroll, Maurice Lennon, Laurence Nugent, and the Trinity Irish Dance Company, for whom he also served as musical director. He’s a recipient of the Illinois Ethnic and Folk Arts Fellowship, and, in August, … [Read more...] about Jim DeWan

Paul Dryer

November 4, 2018 By Ken Fleming

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Paul is no stranger to diverse music styles.  Originally from Kentucky, moving to Texas in the early 1960’s, his passion for music was ignited by the early 60’s rock scene.  Paul has played in rock, jazz, bluegrass, swing and gospel bands and is currently active in Irish-Celtic music as past president of the Traditional Irish Music Education Society and heavily involved with the O’Flaherty Irish … [Read more...] about Paul Dryer

Katie Duncan

October 19, 2020 By Ken Fleming

Katie Duncan began her music passion in classical piano and playing guitar in a high school band. She became interested in banjo after an O’Flaherty Retreat class with John Liestman, and started taking lessons from her dad Ken Fleming. She now plays banjo and mandolin in KinFolk and the TIMES Band & Session Players and enjoys her time cooking and playing with her zoo of pets between music … [Read more...] about Katie Duncan

Angelika Eleni

August 20, 2020 By Ken Fleming

Angelika Ruiz Gualberto

Angelika Ruiz Gualberto is a performer from Dallas, Texas with over two decades of experience in competitive dance and music performance, along with other folk dance traditions. As a studio artist at the McAllen Creative Incubator, she directs the annual South Texas Irish Festival and established McAllen Irish Arts to develop an Irish traditional arts community in the Rio Grande Valley through … [Read more...] about Angelika Eleni

Shane Farrell

March 12, 2021 By Ken Fleming

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Shane Farrell started playing Irish traditional music in a family steeped in Irish music at seven years of age.  Learning fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and guitar, he went on to be All-Ireland Champion and travel the world sharing his music.  Shane is a seasoned international performer, having performed live over 6000 times.  Shane now resides in Orlando, Florida where he performs for … [Read more...] about Shane Farrell

Ken Fleming

February 23, 2019 By Steve Horn

Ken Fleming

Ken Fleming has been playing Irish music for more than four decades in the Dallas area on tenor banjo, button accordion, concertina, guitar, bouzouki and mandolin. His love of Irish music led him to become involved in 1983 in the formation of the Southwest Celtic Music Association and North Texas Irish Festival of which he was the founding president and founding director respectively. In the … [Read more...] about Ken Fleming

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Former Student

I really appreciated the welcoming tone of the retreat.  It is a very safe place for beginners to be, and all of us have been and will again be beginners on new instruments.  This came through in the attitudes of the instructors, organizers, session leaders.  It seems to me that this is the core, the soul of this retreat.

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