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O'Flaherty Irish Music Retreat

Teaching Traditional Irish Music

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    • Workshop Presenters
    • Guest Performers
    • Session Leaders
  • Events
    • Instructor Concerts
    • Instructor-Led Sessions
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Current Instructors & Staff

Joseph Beckey

June 9, 2022 By Ken Fleming

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Joseph Beckey comes from a choral tradition until discovering Irish music at a pub in 2008. One of the musicians taught a class “Traditional Songs In Harmony” at the Center for Irish Music in St. Paul, MN.  After that, he was hooked.  He has taken numerous song classes as well as learning to play mandolin, guitar, bouzouki and bodhrán. Soon after learning his first chords, Joseph was … [Read more...] about Joseph Beckey

Workshop – Pub Songs Sing-Along

Antonio Santiago

June 9, 2022 By Ken Fleming

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Information posted soon. … [Read more...] about Antonio Santiago

Leah Youngraven

May 17, 2022 By Ken Fleming

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Leah (Gypsy) Youngraven began playing guitar, singing and composing in the mid 1980s, picked up the bodhrán in the early 1990s, and began playing mandolin in the mid 2000s. She had her performance debut in the summer of 1992, and since then has played in bands in North Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia, and Alabama, as well as in sessions in Texas, Oklahoma, California, Georgia, Tennessee, Cornwall-UK, and … [Read more...] about Leah Youngraven

Guest Concert Performer

Shay Black

February 23, 2019 By Ken Fleming

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Shay Black is an avid songcatcher, musician and singer and is known for his extensive knowledge of songs and music from the Irish, English, Scottish, and North American traditions. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he moved in 1994 to Berkeley, CA from Liverpool, where he had lived for the previous twenty years. While in Liverpool, he toured and recorded with Irish band Garva, the celebrated Stan Hugill … [Read more...] about Shay Black

Shay
Black

Instructor – Singing  |  Enrichment Class – Irish Influenced Songs of the Sea  |  Lead Song Session

2016, 2022

Lexie Boatright

September 11, 2021 By Ken Fleming

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Alex Boatright is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist, performer, and teacher known for her effortless musicality and sensitive musicianship on Harp and Concertina. Alex is the Artistic Director of the Baltimore-Washington Academy of Irish Culture, a non-profit that she founded together with Fiddler Mitch Fanning, which provides children in the DMV area with a rich education in traditional … [Read more...] about Lexie Boatright

Alex
Boatright

Instructor – Concertina Fundamentals  |  Enrichment Class – How to Practice Effectively

2021, 2022

Dermot Byrne

February 24, 2022 By Ken Fleming

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Dermot Byrne hails from the Inishowen peninsula of Co. Donegal, the most northerly part of Ireland, and has played accordion from the early age of  four.  He learned from his father Tomás O’Beirn from Teileann in South West Donegal who is an enthusiastic promoter of the tradition. Dermot at the age of only seven had already achieved an All Ireland Title at the Buncrana Fleadh Cheoil … [Read more...] about Dermot Byrne

Dermot
Byrne

Instructor – Button Accordion  | Session – Playing Tunes with…

2022

Yvonne Casey

October 28, 2018 By Ken Fleming

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Yvonne Casey is one of Co. Clare’s most distinctive fiddle players. She grew up surrounded by the richness of Clare music and plays in a very unique soulful style. Sitting in sessions from a very young age she discovered the joys of Doolin as a teen, where she met and played with legendary musicians such as Kevin Griffin and Eoin O’ Neill. In the 1990’s the band The Ceili Bandits was formed, … [Read more...] about Yvonne Casey

Yvonne
Casey

Instructor — Intermediate Fiddle  |  Session – Playing Tunes with…

2018, 2022

Baron Collins-Hill

February 27, 2022 By Ken Fleming

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Baron Collins-Hill grew up playing the mandolin in Maine and graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in music performance and ethnomusicology. Versed in traditional fiddle music, bluegrass, and jazz, he is known for his rhythmic experimentation and unique harmonic sense on both the mandolin, tenor guitar, and Irish bouzouki. Baron plays with fiddler Julia Plumb in their duo Velocipede and … [Read more...] about Baron Collins-Hill

Baron
Collins-Hill

Instructor – Mandolin  |  Enrichment Class – Music Theory for Traditional Musicians

2022

Brian Conway

November 4, 2018 By Ken Fleming

Brian Conway

New York born fiddler Brian Conway is a leading exponent of the tastefully ornamented Sligo fiddling style made famous by the late Michael Coleman. The winner of two All- Ireland junior titles in 1973 and 1974 and the All-Ireland senior championship of 1986, Brian's early studies were with his father Jim of Plumbridge, County Tyrone and with Limerick born fiddler/teacher Martin Mulvihill. However, … [Read more...] about Brian Conway

Brian
Conway

Instructor – Advanced Fiddle  |  Enrichment Class – New York’s Legendary Irish Fiddlers

2009, 2012, 2018, 2022

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

Éamonn
Coyne

Instructor – Tenor Banjo  |  Informance

2022

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Testimonials

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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