O'Flaherty Irish Music Retreat

Teaching Traditional Irish Music

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Session Leaders

Our session leaders are selected from students, former and current instructors and invited guests who are veteran session players.  For more information about our nightly sessions led by instructors, go to PLAY ALONG SESSIONS.  For the regular sessions and a review of our session guidelines, go to SESSIONS.  See our SCHEDULE (PDF or Mobile-Friendly) for times and days of these events.  Here are session leaders for this year:

Rebecca McGowan

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Rebecca McGowan is a dancer and teacher of traditional Irish dance in the Boston area. Drawing on the musicality of older-style step dance and sean-nós dance, the grace of soft shoe, and the joy of social dance traditions, Rebecca is interested in exploring step dance as music and making Irish dance lyrical and approachable. She often performs with duet partner Jackie O’Riley; together they … [Read more...] about Rebecca McGowan

Rebecca
McGowan

Core Instructor – Sean-nós Dancing  |  Step Swap Session

2023, 2026

Testimonials

Former Student

Of all the wonderful aspects of the retreat, though, I think the most wonderful and the most memorable was seeing the effect it had on my son. Andrew really got into the music and into playing in a way that I have never seen in him. When we got home, he and I told the rest of the family about our experiences and then went right out into the front yard and started playing music. No amount of money can buy that kind of experience and your retreat, to a large extent, helped make that happen.

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