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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130703
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130704
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130515T082401
LAST-MODIFIED:20130515T082401
UID:1409@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Traditional Irish music and its historical contexts
DESCRIPTION:Didactic performance for the USIT international summer school in Trinity College. With guest musicians and dancer\, and singer Grace Toland.    Restricted concert for the school.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/traditional-irish-music-and-its-historical-contexts/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130612
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130515T082202
LAST-MODIFIED:20130515T082202
UID:1408@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Traditional Irish music - 'history in practice' concert
DESCRIPTION:Didactic performance for the Carlow College (Pittsburg) creative writers' summer school hosted by USIT in Trinity College. With guest musicians.    Restricted concert for the school.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/traditional-irish-music-history-in-practice-concert/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130527
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130515T081836
LAST-MODIFIED:20130515T081836
UID:1405@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:CLANN AGUS CAIRDE, Séamus Ennis Centre, Naul, Dublin, with Gerry O'Connor
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Donegal fiddler Tara Connaghan\, Clann agus Cairde welcomes Gerry O'Connor (fiddle)\, Fintan Vallely (flute) and Melissa Hayes (guitar / fiddle).The music celebrates the style and repertoire of South Ulster.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/clann-agus-cairde-seamus-ennis-centre-naul-dublin-with-gerry-oconnor/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20131117
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130515T081055
LAST-MODIFIED:20130515T081246
UID:1401@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Hunting for the (bor-) -rán ... a (nother) talk on the bodhrán
DESCRIPTION:A lecture on percussion in Traditional music in Ireland which shakes a stick at some of the  alleged origin-myths concerning the unique Irish drum\, the bodhrán.  The paper challenges myth\, imagination and wishful thinking in the currently accepted history of that unique Irish percussion\, the 'bodhrán'. It explores the use of percussion in Irish music\, despite delial of that\, and looks at the perceptions of Irish drum culture. The evidence of the drum's antecedents is looked at methodically\, as is the meaning of the word 'bodhrán' itself. The interim conclusions of this work in progress are that the famous Irish drum has no ancient artistic past: it was never any more than a tambourine. The Irish device\, from which the word 'bodhrán' comes\, most likely originally was an agricultural and domestic tray or container - even a sieve: indeed\, the history of the bodhrán that we have is riddled with holes. Yet the bodhrán IS around\, and being brilliantly played\, as solid an art and presence as the harp or the pipes. But we borrowed the rhythms from dancers' feet\, the device itself from either black and white minstrels or the Salvation Army\, and synthesized the modern playing style from the sounds of Ulster Lambeggers\, Indian tabla tippers and Scottish pipe-band snare drummers  ... yet what other instrument has suffered such scorn\, been subjected to such unsupported nonsense talk - or has so many songs and jokes penned about it?    Hosted by the William Kennedy Piping Festival\, organised by Armagh Pipers' Club.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/hunting-for-the-bor-ran/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130602
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130515T075140
LAST-MODIFIED:20130515T075527
UID:1396@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Mickey McKenna Memorial concert, Trim
DESCRIPTION:Trim library\, Main Street\,  Trim\, a concert in celebration of Mickey McKenna's life and music.  With members of the McKenna family\, Gandharba\, (Hiralal & Ramji\, Nepalese musicians) Jimmy Kelly (banjo)\,  Dave O'Rourke (jazz guitar; Alternative Entertainments first guitar teacher). 7.30 pm
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/mickey-mckenna-memorial-concert-trim/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130614
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130615
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130515T072324
LAST-MODIFIED:20130515T075554
UID:1388@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Performance at Dobel, Wildbad, Germany  
DESCRIPTION:Irish cultural night performance with his sister Sheena Vallely\, in a programme of traditional and classical music with Aylish Kerrigan (soprano) and Dearbhla Collins (piano).    Sheena was taught at the renowned Armagh Pipers’ Club a decade after Fintan had helped set it up. She went on to develop her playing in London and is a well known session and dance player there and in Bristol. Their music comes from their diverse experience and travel\, session\, concert\, céilí dance and Folk festival performance. Sheena is also an accomplished visual artist. In the 1980s they played together as The Brattle\, and now are together for a short tour. Sheena has already played tours in Germany - with Berlin band Midnight Court\, with Sinéad Hayes and Tobi Kurig\, and with Robbie Boyle and band in Berlin; she is on several albums which range from the strict Traditional to the avant-garde.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/performance-at-dobel-wildbad-germany/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130615
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130616
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130515T071921
LAST-MODIFIED:20130515T075617
UID:1385@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Strassenfest at Sindelfingen, Germany, playing with Sheena Vallely
DESCRIPTION:Playing in duet with flutes and whistles with Sheena Vallely at the international street festival in Sindelfingen..    Sheena was taught at the renowned Armagh Pipers’ Club a decade after Fintan had helped set it up. She went on to develop her playing in London and is a well known session and dance player there and in Bristol. Their music comes from their diverse experience and travel\, session\, concert\, céilí dance and Folk festival performance. Sheena is also an accomplished visual artist. In the 1980s they played together as The Brattle\, and now are together for a short tour. Sheena has already played tours in Germany - with Berlin band Midnight Court\, with Sinéad Hayes and Tobi Kurig\, and with Robbie Boyle and band in Berlin; she is on several albums which range from the strict Traditional to the avant-garde.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/strassenfest-at-sindelfingen-germany-playing-with-sheena-vallely/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130404
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130408
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130421T171241
LAST-MODIFIED:20130421T171241
UID:1355@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Teaching flute at Cruinniú na bhFliúit, Ballyvourney, West Cork
DESCRIPTION:Flute teaching at this year's Cruinniú\, classes at Ballyvourney. Thursday - Saturday\, including recitals and concerts.  See the organiser's website
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/teaching-flute-at-cruinniu-na-bhfliuit-ballyvourney-west-cork/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130618
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130421T171007
LAST-MODIFIED:20130515T073525
UID:1352@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Munich Folk Club with Gerry O'Connor
DESCRIPTION:Performance with Gerry O'Connor at Munich Folk Club. Music and song of South Ulster and beyond.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/munich-folk-club-with-gerry-oconnor/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130828
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130829
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130416T121744
LAST-MODIFIED:20130515T075851
UID:1349@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Illawarra Folk By The Sea festival
DESCRIPTION:Performance at sea festival hosted by Illawarra Folk Club
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/illawarra-folk-by-the-sea-festival/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130923
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130416T121238
LAST-MODIFIED:20130416T121259
UID:1346@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Turning Wave Festival, Yass, New South Wales, Australia
DESCRIPTION:Performance\, talks\, workshops at the Turning Wave Festival over three days
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/turning-wave-festival-yass-new-south-wales-australia/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130829
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130830
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130416T120050
LAST-MODIFIED:20130416T121014
UID:1338@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Music and images illustrated presentation, Canberra National Library
DESCRIPTION:    Dancing on the Page: The Role of the Printed Word in Traditional Music Revivals          Using images\, recordings and live performance\, acclaimed Irish musician and researcher\, Fintan Vallely talks about the role played in Irish Traditional music revival by books on music\, song\, dance\, emigration and the Irish Diaspora . 6pm    
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/music-and-images-illustrated-presentation-canberra-national-library/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130825
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130826
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130416T115124
LAST-MODIFIED:20130416T115146
UID:1335@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Performing at Famine Commemoration Ceremony, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
DESCRIPTION:Music recital in the course of the Commemoration event at Hyde Park Barracks\, Sydney\,  Australia
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/performing-at-famine-commemoration-ceremony-hyde-park-barracks-sydney/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130823
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130824
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130416T114943
LAST-MODIFIED:20130416T114943
UID:1332@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Performing at Famine Commemoration dinner, Sydney
DESCRIPTION:Performance spot in the course of the Famine Commemoration dinner in Parlaiment Buildings\, Sydney\, New South Wales\, Australia.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/performing-at-famine-commemoration-dinner-sydney/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130708
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130714
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130416T114649
LAST-MODIFIED:20130416T114659
UID:1329@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Willie Clancy Summer School - teaching and recital
DESCRIPTION:Teaching flute in workshops all week\, mornings.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/willie-clancy-summer-school-teaching-and-recital/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130615
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130616
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130416T113504
LAST-MODIFIED:20130416T114452
UID:1323@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Street concert at International Strassesfest, Sindelfingen.
DESCRIPTION:Festival performance Fintan Vallely and Gerry O'Connor at International Street Festival\, Sindelfingen
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/street-concert-at-international-strassesfest-sindelfingen/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20131009
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130227T005809
LAST-MODIFIED:20130515T070425
UID:1308@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:The Complete Guide to Playing the Irish Flute, new edition launch
DESCRIPTION:
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/the-complete-guide-to-playing-the-irish-flute-new-edition-launch/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130524
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130525
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130227T004451
LAST-MODIFIED:20130515T070229
UID:1301@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Crosbhealach an Cheoil - The Crossroads Conference 2003, publication of papers
DESCRIPTION:Papers from the conference held on the Magee campus of University of Ulster\, Derry City\, Northern Ireland over 25-27 April\, 2003. These are a stimulating insight into the assessment and provision of traditional music education at all levels from the practical to the academic\, throughout the island of Ireland and abroad. While the concern and focus is on Irish Traditional music\, the ideas and methodologies presented in this landmark selection of papers take other European-style Folk / Traditional musics as well – those of Norway\, Scotland\, Isle of Man\, Northern England\, Newfoundland\, Mid West USA\, Norway and Brittany. The papers address group and one-to-one instrumental teaching of children in organised classes\, summer schools and seasonal workshops\, the specialised and well-established music schools\, third level teaching\, and also cover teaching via tutor books\, CD ROMs\, CD\, videos and the internet.    
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/the-complete-guide-to-playing-the-irish-flute-launch/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120902
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130205T093022
LAST-MODIFIED:20130205T094128
UID:1280@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Pleasures and perils of compiling a dictionary of Irish traditional music
DESCRIPTION:Irish Traditional Music as a Contemporary Art Form: The pleasures and perils of compiling a dictionary of Irish traditional music.  An illustrated talk on the concept\, artistic and social implications\, education value and critical aspects of the 880-page\,  2011 encyclopedia Companion to Irish Traditional Music. There are surprising challenges raised by such a book - not least that classification implies 'canon'\, the antithesis perhaps of the laissez faire of music-making. Using images\, recordings and live music on the flute\, the book's editor Fintan Vallely lays out the genesis of this landmark volume from 18th century ideology through to 20th century organisations\, and describes how it is necessary to make sense of the commercialism and globalisation we see in 'big-stage' touring shows today.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/pleasures-and-perils-of-compiling-a-dictionary-of-irish-traditional-music/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130612
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130613
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130131T001121
LAST-MODIFIED:20130515T075725
UID:1257@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:GRENZTÖNE (Borderline Sounds) Stuttgart, Germany: fiddle & flute workshop
DESCRIPTION:Keltische Klang Konzepte    Traditionelle und neue irische Musik im interkulturellen Dialog    Fiddle and flute workshop with Gerry O'Connor. 7pm    Project Goal: This innovative project seeks to reach an intergenerational Public through the trans-cultural  language of music as the medium for dialogue. With the participation of international artists from Ireland\, Germany and France; the prize winning German stage director Andrea Haupt;  the Music Theatre Class and the talented young music students from the Stuttgart Musikschule together with the older generation of experimenters\, we will explore cultural issues thru dialogue\, movement\, text experimentation and visual arts. Ireland has a 5000 yrs old culture whose roots may be seen in the Celtic findings in Baden-Württemberg. Music is by its very nature\, an international language.  Although traditional Irish music enjoys a certain popularity in Germany\, the rich heritage of contemporary Irish compositions and the issues they address are little known.  This project seeks to emphasis the cultural importance of Ireland as it assumes the EU presidency in 2013.     
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/grenztone-borderline-sounds-stuttgart-germany-2/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130617
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130131T000844
LAST-MODIFIED:20130515T075654
UID:1254@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:GRENZTÖNE - Stuttgart, Germany; recital with Gerry O'Connor
DESCRIPTION:Keltische Klang Konzepte    Traditionelle und neue irische Musik im interkulturellen Dialog    Fiddle and flute recital: Fintan Vallely and Gerry O'Connor: 4pm    Project Goal: This innovative project seeks to reach an intergenerational Public through the trans-cultural  language of music as the medium for dialogue. With the participation of international artists from Ireland\, Germany and France; the prize winning German stage director Andrea Haupt;  the Music Theatre Class and the talented young music students from the Stuttgart Musikschule together with the older generation of experimenters\, we will explore cultural issues thru dialogue\, movement\, text experimentation and visual arts. Ireland has a 5000 yrs old culture whose roots may be seen in the Celtic findings in Baden-Württemberg. Music is by its very nature\, an international language.  Although traditional Irish music enjoys a certain popularity in Germany\, the rich heritage of contemporary Irish compositions and the issues they address are little known.  This project seeks to emphasis the cultural importance of Ireland as it assumes the EU presidency in 2013.     
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/grenztone-borderline-sounds-stuttgart-germany/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130209
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130130T234251
LAST-MODIFIED:20130131T000440
UID:1250@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Post grad seminar at Music Dept., UCD
DESCRIPTION:Guest post graduate seminar lecture  From foot percussion to bodhrán: the paradox of the percussive impulse in Irish music  Irish music has little documented evidence of musically-significant\, 19th century or earlier percussion practices. In the 20th century the standard drum kit was used by bands\, the tambourine occurs momentarily on recordings and later\, in the 1950s\, the tambourine was formally adopted in the form of  the ‘bodhrán’\, a large-diameter frame drum. Early critics of the bodhrán cited the absence of historical references to justify dismissal or trivialisation of the drum\, and held that authentic Irish Traditional music did not 'need' percussion on that account. But the fact that the bodhrán now enjoys such popularity suggests the existence of a formidable rhythmic or percussive  impulse which is unlikely to have been absent in earlier eras. Indeed\, observations of step and set dancers’ foot patterning and impact sounds suggests that percussion was ever present - provided by the participatory energy of dancers. The inverse is seen in the mimicking by older musicians  of step dance percussion with their feet while playing\, and\, too\, in  the loud\, visible keeping time with the foot done by all players still.  This paper suggests that among dancers there were and are foot percussionists\, and this skill is also exercised and carried on today by bodhrán players. It draws on original research done on the tambourine and bodhrán\, this raising questions not only about  origins\, but also about terminology and interpretation of language.    READING - Companion to Irish Traditional Music\, 2nd edition (2011)  Dance - 180 -200  Bodhran - 68-74  idiophone - 357  tambourine - 676  foot stamping - 282  bones - 76-78
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/post-grad-seminar-at-music-dept-ucd/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130808
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130812
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130130T141709
LAST-MODIFIED:20130130T233536
UID:1244@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Guest Paper at Shamrock in the Bush, Galong, Australia
DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture at ‘Shamrock in the Bush’ Irish Studies symposium\, Galong NSW\, Australia.  Dancing on the page: the vitality of the printed word and image in oral music\, song and dance traditions.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/guest-paper-at-shamrock-in-the-bush-galong-australia/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130314T200000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130314T220000
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130130T140817
LAST-MODIFIED:20130307T112222
UID:1241@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Omagh St. Patrick's week festival
DESCRIPTION:Dancing on the page: the power of the printed word in aural music\, song and dance traditions  Illustrated lecture at the Strule Arts Centre\, Omagh as part of a 17th March celebratory week. Theme is 'Celebrating Cultures.    The talk deals with the wonderful myths\, rumours and lies that abounded in the post-1950s years during which Traditional music was revived with such thrilling positivity and confidence. It examines wholesome theories of authenticity and Irishness and observes that though these take their vitality from the plain people\, they draw their validity and sustenance from the published words and music of 19th century 'big-housse' scholars and from thinking that did not begin in Ireland at all. With a nod to Tyrone’s exiled literati Ben Kiely and Flann O'Brien and its famous fiddlers\, Ulster song and music traditions\, dancing and marching\, Romantic theory and the novelists’ utopias are explored in a re-assessment of the music of Myles' ‘plain people of Ireland’ – though with less savagery than Kiely’s ‘Gilsenan’s Revised Irish Minstrelsy’.     
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/omagh-st-patricks-week-festival/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130404
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130407
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130130T135457
LAST-MODIFIED:20130130T233922
UID:1237@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Teaching flute at Cruinniú na bhFliúit, West Cork
DESCRIPTION:Flute teaching at this year's Cruinniú\, classes at Ballyvourney. Thursday - Saturday\, including recitals and concerts.  See the organiser's website
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/teaching-flute-at-cruinniu-na-bhfliuit-west-cork/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130130
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130129T220507
LAST-MODIFIED:20130129T220507
UID:1230@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Music dissemination and transmission in Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Observations on the social\, commercial\, cultural and technological dimensions of music transmission. Deals with aural learning\, music notation\, writing about music\, commercialism\, recording\, radio\, television media and organisations.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/music-dissemination-and-transmission-in-ireland/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130115
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20130109T121523
LAST-MODIFIED:20130129T220928
UID:1175@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:The percussive impulse in Irish music
DESCRIPTION:  From foot percussion to bodhrán: the paradox of the percussive impulse in Irish music      Irish music does has little documented evidence of musically-significant\, 19th century or earlier percussion practices. In the 20th century the standard drum kit was used by bands\, the tambourine occurs momentarily on recordings and later\, in the 1950s\, the tambourine was formally adopted in the form of  the ‘bodhrán’\, a large-diameter frame drum. Early critics of the bodhrán cited the absence of historical references in their dismissal of the drum\, and held that Irish Traditional music did not need percussion on that account. But the fact that the bodhrán now enjoys such popularity suggests the presence of a formidable rhythmic or percussive  impulse which is unlikely to have been absent in earlier eras. Indeed\, observations of step and set dancers’ foot patterning and impact sounds suggests that percussion was ever present - provided by the participatory energy of dancers. The inverse is seen in the mimicking by older musicians  of step dance percussion with their feet while playing\, and\, too\, in  the loud\, visible keeping time with the foot done by all players still. This paper puts forward that the dancers’ foot percussion is today exercised and carried on carried on today by bodhrán players.    
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/the-paradox-of-the-percussive-impulse-in-irish-music-illustrated-lecture-in-dit-dublin/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121201
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20121108T223049
LAST-MODIFIED:20130130T234025
UID:1168@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Guest lecturer at Newcastle University (England) for November, 2012
DESCRIPTION:Fintan Vallely will be acting lecturer in Irish Traditional music  and music performance on the University of Newcastle on Tyne's Folk Music degree programme. He is deputising for Desi Wilkinson who is on sabbatical.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/guest-lecturer-at-newcastle-university-england-for-november-2012/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121008
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20121002T132917
LAST-MODIFIED:20121002T133242
UID:1129@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Flute workshop at Circolo ARCI arcobaleno (Roma)
DESCRIPTION:Flute teaching workshop. Afternoon.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/flute-workshop-at-circolo-arci-arcobaleno-roma/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121008
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20121002T132213
LAST-MODIFIED:20130130T233821
UID:1126@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Club concert at Circolo ARCI arcobaleno (Roma)
DESCRIPTION:Club venue performance at  Circolo ARCI arcobaleno\,Garbatella area\, on the evening of Sunday\, 7th October. Full details on Club website. 21.30pm
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/club-concert-at-rome/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120704
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120705
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20120529T150109
LAST-MODIFIED:20120604T023544
UID:1036@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Contemporary Irish Traditional Music - performance and talk
DESCRIPTION:Performance / lecture on Irish traditional music\, its instruments\, history and practice today\, given to USIT International  Summer School at Trinity College Dublin.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/contemporary-irish-traditional-music-performance-and-talk-2/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120614
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120615
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20120529T145846
LAST-MODIFIED:20120604T023506
UID:1032@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Contemporary Irish Traditional Music - performance and talk
DESCRIPTION:Performance / lecture on Irish traditional music\, its instruments\, history and practice today\, given to Carlow College (USA) Creative Writing Summer School at Trinity College Dublin.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/contemporary-irish-traditional-music-performance-and-talk/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120628
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120629
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20120529T144140
LAST-MODIFIED:20120529T144140
UID:1027@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:From foot percussion to bodhrán: the percussive impulse Irish music
DESCRIPTION:Paper at the NAFCo fiddle week conference.     Irish music does not have any recorded evidence of musically-significant\, 19th century or earlier percussion practices. In the 20th century the standard drum kit was used by bands\, the tambourine occurs momentarily on recordings and later\, in the 1950s\, the tambourine was formally adopted in the form of  the ‘bodhrán’\, a large-diameter frame drum. Early critics of the bodhrán cited the absence of historical references in their dismissal of the drum\, and held that Irish Traditional music did not need percussion on that account. But the fact that the bodhrán now enjoys such popularity suggests the presence of a formidable rhythmic or percussive  impulse which is unlikely to have been absent in earlier eras. Indeed\, observations of step and set dancers’ foot patterning and impact sounds suggests that percussion was ever present - provided by the participatory energy of dancers. The inverse is seen in the mimicking by older musicians  of step dance percussion with their feet while playing\, and\, too\, in  the loud\, visible keeping time with the foot done by all players still. This paper puts forward that the dancers’ foot percussion is today exercised and carried on carried on today by bodhrán players.  
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/from-foot-percussion-to-bodhran-the-percussive-impulse-irish-music/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120819
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20120527T132652
LAST-MODIFIED:20120529T143439
UID:1019@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Launch of Companion at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, Cavan
DESCRIPTION:The Companion will be given an Ulster launch on saturday afternoon\, 18th August\, the main weekend of the All-Ireland fleadh at Cavan town\, at 12.30 (mid day) in the Farnham Arms Hotel Conference room. At this\, Fintan Vallely will give an illustrated lecture on the compilation of the book. This will be part of a programmed formal event sponsored by the Arts Council's Deis Traditional Music Awards body. The event opens with 'Another World' – a lecture by Marcas Ó Murchú at 11 am.  
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/launch-of-companion-at-fleadh-cheoil-na-heireann-cavan/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120707
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120708
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20120519T171058
LAST-MODIFIED:20120529T145431
UID:1012@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Clare launch of Companion by Neil Rosenberg
DESCRIPTION:The Companion will be formally launched as on the opening Sunday of Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy by Neil Rosenberg (author of 'Transforming Tradition') on Sunday afternoon at The Convent\, Spanish Point.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/clare-launch-of-companion-by-neil-rosenberg/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120524
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120525
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20120519T165833
LAST-MODIFIED:20120519T165833
UID:1007@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Companion Launch and performance with Martin Dowling (fiddle), Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, 24th May\, 7pm there will be a local launch of The Companion at the Ranelagh Arts Centre\, Dublin 6. Following this at c. 8pm fintan will play a concert with Chicago/Belfast fiddler Martin Dowling who is also one of the main contributors to The Companion. Books will be available at a 12% discount at this event.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/companion-launch-and-performance-with-martin-dowling-fiddle-ranelagh-arts-centre-dublin/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120625
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120626
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20120404T134708
LAST-MODIFIED:20120529T153431
UID:982@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Craiceann - Inniseer Bodhrán Festival
DESCRIPTION:  Paper to be given at the 2012 Craiceann summer school on Inniseer island\, off Co. Galway.    'Hunting for borr- án - shaking a stick at the origin myths of the Irish drum'    The paper challenges myth\, imagination and wishful thinking in the currently accepted history of that unique Irish percussion\, the 'bodhrán'. It explores the perceptions of Irish drum culture\, looks scientifically at the evidence of the drum's antecedents\,  and questions the meaning of the word 'bodhrán' itself. The interim conclusions of this work in progress are that the famous Irish drum has no ancient artistic past: it was always just a tambourine. The Irish device\, from which the word 'bodhrán' comes\, was an agricultural and domestic tray or container - even a sieve. Indeed\, the history of the bodhrán that we have is riddled with holes. Yet the bodhrán IS around\, and being brilliantly played\, as solid an art and presence as the harp or the pipes\, and by now emblematic of Irishness. But we borrowed the rhythms from dancers' feet\, the device itself from either black and white minstrels or the Salvation Army\, and synthesized the modern playing style from the sounds of Ulster Lambeggers\, Indian tabla tippers and Scottish pipe-band snare drummers.    
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/craiceann-inniseer-bodhran-festival/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120416
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20120404T131450
LAST-MODIFIED:20120410T143336
UID:977@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Judith Guthrie's Jig, RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Performance of the tune Judith Guthrie's Jig on Sunday Miscellany\, 9.10 + on RTÉ Radio 1\, Sunday\, 8th April\, 2012. This tune came together following a 1991 exploratory visit to Bulgaria to investigate primary\, second-level and third-level teaching of traditional music -  a two week immersion in traditional music\, singing and dance which resulted in an Irish tour by a group of terrific Bulgarian players - Plovdiv - to Ireland in 1992. The title was inspired by ideas put forward by novelist Evelyn Conlon in the course of researching the life of Judith Guthrie\, she who was married to theatre promoter Tyrone Guthrie (after whom the Minneapolis theatre is named in honour of his work there). Guthrie's onetime Irish home is now the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig\, Co. Monaghan which hosts artist residencies\, many of which have involved music. The tune title ties together the back room direction of Judith Guthrie\, great music experiences in Minneapolis\, Co. Monaghan and the  arts in Ireland. The tune's oddness\, well ...
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/judith-guthries-jig-rte-radio-1-ireland/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120717T200000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120717T230000
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20120125T150535
LAST-MODIFIED:20120529T152247
UID:946@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Tocane, France, launch concert for The Companion
DESCRIPTION:Concert presentation for the launch of the Companion in the Perigord region of France. Held as part of Rencontre Musicale Irlandaise\, an Irish-music summer school running since 1991 in the village of Tocane St. Apre\, it takes place in the church in the village of Tocane St. Apre. With Kathleen Loughnane (harp); Eileen O'Brien\, Breda Keville\, Philippe Giraud (fiddles)\, Cormac Cannon (pipes)\, Lorcan Mac Mathúna (song)\, Gavin Whelan (whistle)\, Bryan Duggan (flute)\, Claire Keville (concertina)\, Paul Finn (accordion)\, Seamie O'Dowd (guitar)\, Paul Meehan (banjo) and others.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/tocane-france-launch-concert-for-the-companion/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120715
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120722
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20120125T150352
LAST-MODIFIED:20120529T152657
UID:945@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Catskills Irish Music Week, New York
DESCRIPTION:Teaching flute for the week and launching the Companion mid week
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/catskills-irish-music-week-new-york/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120709T100000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120714T130000
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20120125T150235
LAST-MODIFIED:20120529T144850
UID:944@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy
DESCRIPTION:Teaching flute for the week during the summer school.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/scoil-samhraidh-willie-clancy/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120525
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120527
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20120125T145732
LAST-MODIFIED:20120516T081305
UID:941@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Féile John McGrath, Westport, Co. Mayo -  Fact, fashion or fetters?
DESCRIPTION:Paper for Féile John McGrath\, May 2012     Fact\, fashion or fetters?    Issues of perception\, passion and patriotism raised in the compilation of The Companion to Irish Traditional Music.    In 1999 a large number of the diverse strands that make up Irish traditional music were brought together in The Companion to Irish Traditional Music. Effectively an encyclopedia\, its 478 pages covered music\, song and dance\, tunes\, style and lyrics\, people\, practices and transmission. It filled a need in the Irish education system which was by that time teaching the music at university levels. The book sold some 5000 copies over five years\, creating demand for a second edition. Now published\, at 900 pages this is twice the size of its predecessor. That can be interpreted as a response to a broadening of its field of reference\, a loosening of genre boundaries in music in Ireland and of course expansion of interest in the music\, academically as well as internationally. The book is not a memorial-style  ‘Digital Tír na Óg’ for Irish Traditional music data however. On the contrary\, it is an affirmative document of an active canon. Questions are raised by the fact of the book’s compilation and by its use in education. Will the book make it easier to teach the music in schools\, and will it expand music-lover’s knowledge usefully? Is it of confidence value to musicians? Does inclusion or non inclusion of items indicate greater or lesser importance? Might it lead to music performance becoming prescriptive? Might blowing away many of the mysteries leave the music less enchanting? Does the internationalization it illustrates devalue the music’s core Irishness? These and other such points are explored by Fintan Vallely in a discourse on how the book took shape between 2008 and 2011.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/feile-john-mcgrath-westport/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120412
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120416
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20120125T145424
LAST-MODIFIED:20130130T234002
UID:939@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Cruinniú na BhFliúit, Cúil Aodha, Co. Cork, flute tuition
DESCRIPTION:Teaching flute in the week following Easter at the Coolea flute gathering; participation in the Saturday concert and giving a paper:    From R E M to R A M    A reflection on fantasy\, fulfillment and contradictions over the course of Vallely's near half-century Traditional music journey from the elemental dreamtime when he started on the flute to the mincing machine of the digital information age and commodity music. The paper considers the gradual dissipation of the exuberance of the earlyish revival years where music was considered a gift\, a musician always had to be bought a drink and every session was coloured by anticipation and amazement. Learning to play the flute amid the wonder was a pleasurable frustration: for even though the instrument was scarce and mentors far away\, tantalizing tunes could leak unexpectedly out of the wireless\, and a 78 record might be found in an antique shop. A pragmatic formality crept in with the demand for flute teaching\, absence of information demanded a tutor book in tandem with the times\, and the tumble towards the Celtic Tiger foddered by new value on traditions generated opportunity: travel\, academic scrutiny and the rational format of the Traditional music dictionary. But is this our very own Medieval golden goose? Have we put it in a barrel\, refining it from seasonal celebration as Christmas dinner to an elite\, culturally immobile foie gras? IS it just ‘entertainment’\, career and business? Or is it all no more than nice stuff that survived from an earlier age\, but that we should have let develop laissez faire? These questions\, the opportunities and imperfections\, are looked at here through the eyes of a flute player drawing on the past to appreciate the present and speculate for the future.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/cruinniu-na-bhfliuit-cuil-aodha-co-cork-flute-tuition/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120427
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120501
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20120125T144845
LAST-MODIFIED:20120404T124556
UID:937@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Conference at Emory University, Atlanta, USA
DESCRIPTION:Making Connections: The Celtic Roots of Southern Culture.  A Conference at Emory University\, Atlanta.    Speaking on the transfer of music from recreational to political repertoires\, and from Scotland\, via Ireland to the USA. Performance with flute and song in the course of the three day conference.    “Hand-me-downs\, Fence Jumpers and Prisoners of War: the Double Life of Irish Songs and Tunes”  A good tune is a good tune\, and none know that better than those involved in politics and religion. Many forms of Irish music are borrowed\, not least the Popular\, Church and Classical genres\, and much Irish music has itself been absorbed elsewhere. The older ‘traditional’ music\, song and dance can be seen to have absorbed features or forms too from neighbouring Scotland and England – as have done the music and song bodies of those regions with Ireland. Airs are shared with Scotland and ‘big’ ballads with there and England\, and political song inter-borrowings mark Nationalist and Loyalist agitational repertoires. The paper explores how these can simultaneously mark the repertoires of recreational dance music and agitational marching music in Northern Ireland\, and how the same tune can be found carrying\, serving and performing opposing political beliefs with equivalent vehemence.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/conference-at-emory-university-atlanta/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110707
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110708
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111011T060518
LAST-MODIFIED:20111011T060518
UID:909@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Cold Case Bodh-rán – shaking a stick at the origin myths of the Irish drum
DESCRIPTION:In the nineteen sixties the bodhrán was loftily looked down noses at in the early Irish music scene and became the butt of the very first Traditional music jokes. But by now it has well passed out the pipes and has taken over from the harp as a popular visual representation of Irish music\, if not Irishness itself internationally.    How has such a preposterous thing happened? The ingenuity of Ó Riada was undoubtedly the trigger\, and the spirit of the sixties did the rest once the percussion genie was let out of the bottle. But what is the history of the bodhrán? What we know so far is driven by myth and wishful thinking.    Now\, for the first time\, in this lecture Fintan Vallely puts the Irish drum itself in the witness box and lays out the real and imagined evidence for the drum's antecedents. The interim conclusions of this work in progress are that the famous Irish drum has no ancient artistic past: at the best it was only ever just a tambourine. The Irish device\, from which the word 'bodhrán' comes\, most likely originally meant an agricultural and domestic tray or container - even a sieve. Indeed\, the history of the bodhrán that we have so far is riddled with holes.    Yet the bodhrán IS around\, and being brilliantly played\, as solid an art and presence as the harp or the pipes. We borrowed the device from black and white minstrels or the Salvation Army\, the rhythms from dancers' feet\, and we synthesised the modern playing style from the sounds of Ulster Lambeggers\, Indian tabla tippers and Scottish pipe-band snare drummers.    If the speaker can locate a bodhrán player brave enough to enter the Community Hall there will be music. Appropriate songs may be sung ...     
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/cold-case-bodh-ran-%e2%80%93-shaking-a-stick-at-the-origin-myths-of-the-irish-drum/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110820
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111011T060228
LAST-MODIFIED:20111011T060228
UID:905@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann lecture - Myth and Majesty in the Rise of the Irish Drum (Cavan)
DESCRIPTION:Hunting for Borrane  Flute\, speech\, song and bodhrán presentation with Trevor Beury and Tim Lyons at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann\, Cavan - "Hunting for Borrane… myth and majesty in the rise of the Irish drum."
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/fleadh-cheoil-na-heireann-lecture-myth-and-majesty-in-the-rise-of-the-irish-drum-cavan/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110713
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110720
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111011T055036
LAST-MODIFIED:20111011T055036
UID:896@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:The invigorating enablement of a perfect past for Irish music
DESCRIPTION:ICTM World Conference\, 13-19 July\, 2011\, St. John’s\, Newfoundland    Paper in Irish Music Panel – Indigenous Modernities: Fintan Vallely with Mats Melin and Martin Dowling.  Papers:  Fintan Vallely. The invigorating enablement of a perfect past: Past and future in modern-day revision and rationalisation of Irish Traditional music practices\, instrumentation and motivational impetus.    Mats Melin. Cape Breton step-dance on the small screen: The influence of visual technologies on aesthetics and over-arching stylistic ‘correctness’; capturing ephemeral moments in time for posterity.    Martin Dowling. Modernity and Irish Traditional Music\, a Historical View: the indigenous music of Ireland never lacked the influence of modernity\, but negotiates tradition and change with resilience.    ICTM Conference Programme    The invigorating enablement of a perfect past      Irish Traditional music is at its most dramatic a body of melismatic song practice which is demonstrably medieval\, but with roots in an even greater antiquity. It also has consequent and distinctive varied instrumental forms which have been documented over some 1200 years. Though there has been much change and dilution over the centuries\, because the process of this has been interwoven with the repression of Gaelic Ireland\, old Irish music\, song and dance have accreted great ideological tenacity. This extraordinary alliance of the music with a thoroughly rebel-led nationalism marks Irish music revival as quite different to contemporary ‘Folk’ scenes in neighbouring England and Scotland: it has come to be defined by what it excludes as much as by what it includes. This feature has been remarkably enabling and productive over the phases of revival\, the energy and popularity it generated having contributed much to the music’s internationalisation among non-Irish players. However\, the perceived core\, motivational certainties are now radically challenged and by the great volume of scholarship which has been triggered by the very success and consequent professionalism of the genre in alliance with new technologies. But far from being destructive\, this has served to lay open exciting new strata which illuminate not only an island-Irish past\, but international associations\, borrowings and influences\, a body of knowledge which indeed mirrors that which the avant garde of Irish Traditional performers have been doing in performance ever since Ó Riada’s experimental Ceoltóirí Chualann in the 1950s.  The paper analyses the coincidence of ‘pastness’ and futurism in the modern-day climate of revision and rationalization: music practices\, instrumentation and motivational myths as a synergy which is underlain by a passionate belief in the genre as a true soul music. (Fintan Vallely)
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/the-invigorating-enablement-of-a-perfect-past-for-irish-music/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100710
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100711
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111011T040323
LAST-MODIFIED:20111011T040323
UID:876@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Melbourne - Monash University Guest Paper
DESCRIPTION:Fintan Vallely: ‘The Irish drum - stone-age innovation in the digital age’\, guest paper at Monash University\, Melbourne\, Research and Work-in-Progress seminars.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/melbourne-monash-university-guest-paper/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100807
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100808
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111011T035929
LAST-MODIFIED:20111011T035929
UID:874@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Guest Paper to Shamrock in the Bush
DESCRIPTION:Fintan Vallely: ‘Tír na nÓg in 2010: Keeping Traditional music forever young’.  Issues of passion\, canon and change arising from the compilation of the encyclopedia Companion to Irish Traditional Music in 1999\, and its revision a decade later. Guest lecture at ‘Shamrock in the Bush’ Irish Studies symposium\, Galong NSW\, Australia.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/guest-paper-to-shamrock-in-the-bush/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101023
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111011T035336
LAST-MODIFIED:20111011T035336
UID:872@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Guest Lecture at Threads and Yarns Cultural Forum
DESCRIPTION:Fintan Vallely: Comic and satirical song in the Traditional music scene.  Guest lecture at Threads and Yarns cultural forum\, Foxford\, Co. Mayo\, Friday evening\, 22nd October\, 2010.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/guest-lecture-at-threads-and-yarns-cultural-forum/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101106
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111011T034427
LAST-MODIFIED:20111011T034427
UID:869@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Guest Lecture to Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
DESCRIPTION:Head space\, community and nation in traditional music  Illustrating by performed music and select images\, Dr. Fintan Vallely explores the nature and significance of ‘free spaces’ generated by Irish traditional music in the 21st century.     Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies\, University of Notre Dame\, Indiana  
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/guest-lecture-to-keough-naughton-institute-for-irish-studies-university-of-notre-dame-indiana/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110326
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110327
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111011T033856
LAST-MODIFIED:20111011T033856
UID:867@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Whistle Workshop in Belfast
DESCRIPTION:Whistle workshop for Belfast Set Dance and Traditional Music Society.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/whistle-workshop-belfas/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110416
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111011T033319
LAST-MODIFIED:20111011T033343
UID:864@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Hunting for borr- áne - guest paper on the tambourine in Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Hunting for borr- án - shaking a stick at the origin myths concerning the Irish drum.  Evening lecture for Na Píobairí Uilleann at Henrietta Street\, off Bolton Street\, Dublin on work in progress on the history of the tambourine and bodhrán in Ireland.  The paper challenges myth\, imagination and wishful thinking in the currently accepted history of that unique Irish percussion\, the 'bodhrán'. It explores the perceptions of Irish drum culture\, looks scientifically at the evidence of the drum's antecedents\, and the meaning of the word 'bodhrán' itself. The interim conclusions of this work in progress are that the famous Irish drum has no ancient artistic past: it was never any more than a tambourine. The Irish device\, from which the word 'bodhrán' comes\, most likely originally meant an agricultural and domestic tray or container - even a sieve. Indeed\, the history of the bodhrán that we have is riddled with holes. Yet the bodhrán IS around\, and being brilliantly played\, as solid an art and presence as the harp or the pipes. But we borrowed the rhythms from dancers' feet\, the device itself from either black and white minstrels or the Salvation Army\, and synthesized the modern playing style from the sounds of Ulster Lambeggers\, Indian tabla tippers and Scottish pipe-band snare drummers. If the speaker can locate a bodhrán player brave enough to enter the NPU there will be music; if not\, appropriate tongue-in cheek-derisory songs will be sung…
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/hunting-for-borr-ane/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110726
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110727
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111011T031424
LAST-MODIFIED:20111011T031621
UID:863@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Digital Tír na nÓg in 2011 - the Compilation of The Companion to Irish Traditional Music
DESCRIPTION:  Audio-Visual Commission for the International Association of Music Libraries\, Archives and Documentation Centres.  Annual conference\, Trinity College\, Dublin\, 24-29 July 2011.  Conference Programme    Paper by Dr. Fintan Vallely\, Music Dept.\, Dundalk Institute of Technology.  Digital Tír na nÓg in 2011: Issues of passion\, canon and change revealed through the  compilation of The Companion to Irish Traditional Music\, 2011  The Companion to Irish Traditional Music was the first attempt at categorisation in Irish Traditional music. An 478 page encyclopedia\, published in 1999\, it sold some 5000 copies over five years\, and the second edition (which has just been completed) has been in demand ever since. The new edition has expanded by 70%\, and the scale of this development is interpreted as a response to both a broadening of the field of reference\, and a loosening of genre boundaries in music in Ireland. Facilitation of this increase has been greatly aided by database and IT technologies. These\, by their nature\, have prompted a more precise categorisation methodology which in turn feeds back into aesthetic considerations concerning the nature and performance of this music.  Greatly productive\, the process’s logic is that the work is definitely not a memorial-style  ‘Digital Tír na Óg’ (land of eternal youth) for Irish Traditional music data. But objectively\, by drawing together all existing publication\, personae and analysis in the field\, The Companion process documents and affirms an active canon.
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/digital-tir-na-nog-in-2011/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110703T160000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110703T190000
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111011T030620
LAST-MODIFIED:20111011T053938
UID:860@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Ben Lennon - The Tailor's Twist Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:A study in text\, photographs and graphic design of the fiddler Ben Lennon of Kiltyclogher\, Co. Leitrim.     Ben Lennon is known widely as a stylistic performer and teacher in the national and international world of Irish Traditional music. He began playing the fiddle at the age of ten\, growing up in an atmosphere of home\, céilí-house music-making and served his time with his father as a tailor. He developed his skills in post-World War 11 London among superb artisans and there immersed himself in a cosmopolitan city lifestyle. Back on Irish soil he returned to traditional music in its headiest revival years\, first in Limerick and then Cork\, while also engaged as an innovator and organiser in major clothing businesses. He returned north to Leitrim after twenty five years and relocated himself in local music\, going on to teach his instrument\, and to record and broadcast.    Ben Lennon's life is documented here in words by Fintan Vallely. The fiddler is also presented within his music society in a hundred and more striking photographs by Nutan Jacques Piraprez. These elements are integrated by a vigorous\, complementary design by Martin Gaffney as the visual story of a personal journey in music by a commentator who has a bird’s eye view that is a panorama of the technological and artistic transformation from the old Ireland to the new\, from  traditional music redundancy to its artistic supremacy.    Launched at the Willie Clancy Summer School\, Miltown Malbay on Sunday\, 3rd July\, 2011.    TO ORDER FROM A BOOKSHOP - ISBN 978-0-9511569-2-6  
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/ben-lennon-book-launch/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110627
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110628
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111011T025728
LAST-MODIFIED:20111011T025728
UID:858@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Lecture-performance for USIT Summer School
DESCRIPTION:A one and a half hour presentation of Irish Traditional music incoroporating music\, song and dance with explicatory commentary. Fintan Vallely (flute and speaking) with Kevin Rowsome (uilleann pipes)\, Edel McWeeney (fiddle)\, Lorraine Mitchell (fiddle)\, Daoirí Farrell (song\, bouzouki) and Mick Mulkerrins (sean-nós step dance).
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/lecture-performance-for-usit-summer-school/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110629
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110630
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111011T025141
LAST-MODIFIED:20111011T025141
UID:855@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Cartoonist / Songwriter Brian Moore Concert in Belfast
DESCRIPTION:The Life of Brian  A night of song\, music and readings to celebrate the life of the Belfast singer songwriter\, cartoonist and playwright Brian Moore\, who died earlier this year.    Wednesday 29 June in the Black Box in Belfast.    Singers\, musicians\, and  friends will come together to celebrate  the life of Brian\, a lifelong political activist\, founding member of the legendary folk group ‘ The People of no Property’\, creator of the acclaimed ‘Cormac’ cartoons\,  playwright and  member of the Radical Arts Group.    A long list of singers from Belfast and around the country who performed over the years with Brian will come together to perform on the night. Performers will include Joe Mulheron\, Barry Kerr\, Mary Mulryne\, Gerry Jones\, Eileen Webster\, Caoimhin Mac Ghiolla Cathain\, Gearóid Mac Lochlain\, Deirdre Mac Aliskey\, Fintan Vallely\, Bríd Keenan\,  Noel Leneghan\, Éamon Ó Faogáin and Francie  McPeake. Terry O Neill will perform selections from two of Brian’s play’s\, Paddy on the Road and Malachy Mulligan.  The night will begin at 8-30 and people are advised to come early.    For confirmation or further information contact Fergus O’Hare at 07792451181
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/brian-moore-concert/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110913T190000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110913T210000
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111011T024508
LAST-MODIFIED:20111011T024508
UID:853@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Flute performance in 'News', by Brendan Ellis
DESCRIPTION:'News'\,  a one-hour mosaic of music and poetry as part of a Ranelagh district community event. Core of the event is c. 1000-year-old poetry in Irish composed by poets who would have spent time in the vicinity of Cullenswood and the general area. Translated by Brendan Ellis from various sources\, only one of these pieces is still heard today (An Cailleach Béara - The Old Woman of Beare) and the name of only one of the poets is known - Liadán. Participating in music for the event are Jenny Robinson (recorder - Lament di Tristan e Rotta)\, Andrew Robinson (percussion\, bass viol - Paddy's Rambles Through the Park)\, Mick McNally (accordion)\, Paul De Grae (guitar - Ag Taisteal na Blarnán)\, Fintan Vallely (flute - Judith Guthrie's suite)\, John Keogh (The Bard of Armagh - keyboard)\, David Carmody (French horn - Táimse 'mo Chodhladh).
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/flute-performance-in-news-by-brendan-ellis/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120928
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111010T183106
LAST-MODIFIED:20111010T183106
UID:820@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:From amateur professional to professional amateur... reflections on the Traditional singing genre
DESCRIPTION:“A Changing Traditional Landscape : The Folklore\, Song and Music of Ireland” - symposium in the Princess Grace Library\, Monaco\, September 2012.    Session title: Connecting the Dots: Identifying Key Changes and Developments in Irish Music\, Song and Folklore in Recent Times  Paper:  From amateur professional to professional amateur … reflections on the Traditional singing genre.  Traditional song forms in Ireland have ceased to have popular functional relevance and (as with dance) have been supplanted\, via media\, by global-style Rock and Pop (much of which in Ireland is of Irish composition). Traditional song as such has by now been set aside by the onetime subalterns\, and has itself become subaltern to that which is merely ‘popular’. It is now typically best articulated by aesthetically committed specialists\, for many of whom it is a ‘genre’\, an artistic life’s pursuit\, and for some a profession. The latter\, as paid artistes often draw on the ‘the fireside’ to authenticate their studied art\, the inverse of the unpaid specialism of céilí-house singers prior to the revival period. This paper explores such crisis questions as thrown up by revival: what is ‘the community’? Are we merely extending the shelf-life of redundant cultural fashions by preserving them in a syrup  of 18th century\, Enlightenment philosophy? How can we be certain that it is all – artistically - ‘worth it’?
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/from-amateur-professional-to-professional-amateur-reflections-on-the-traditional-singing-genre/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120627
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120702
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111010T180818
LAST-MODIFIED:20120516T075407
UID:818@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:North Atlantic Fiddle Organisation Convention 2012
DESCRIPTION:Fintan Vallely is the academic convenor of the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention's biennial conference in late June\, 2012. This is a unique conference set in a week of exceptional music performances in Derry city and Co. Donegal which addresses a challenging issue for Traditional musics in the 21st century – the shift of emphasis from music for dancing to music for listening. The conference continues the train of thinking begun at the Crosbhealach an Cheoil conferences in 1996 and 2003.    NAFCo's guest speaker will be Neil Rosenberg\, Professor Emeritus\, Department of Folklore\,Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is editor of the seminal 1993 book Transforming Tradition (the major analysis of Traditional musics revivals) and of key works on Bluegrass music    Theme of the conference: Traditional music has moved from a primary purpose of servicing dance\, to expressing artistic preference. This is particularly so for the fiddle\, one of the most versatile\, accessible and universal of acoustic instruments. The conference will explore its current popularity in North Atlantic musics in terms of the shift of folk cultures’ interest from social process to aesthetic product. Now predominantly a free-standing performance genre\, at its outer fringes traditional melody-making now shades into other forms – jazz\, contemporary classical\, rock and pop – and indeed the antithesis of genre\, so-called ‘world’ music. Does this bring Alan Lomax’s ‘cultural grey-out’ closer to reality? Might traditional fiddling disappear in a cloud of intermeshed idioms and clichés expounded with fabulous virtuosity? Could Traditional musics lose their sense of aesthetic just as easily as their once-local meaning in relation to dance? Ó Cos go Cluas broadly addresses the process\, product and the potential of this progression in 20 sessions which have 80 papers from all regions of the North Atlantic.  Conference website  Summary of papers  Conference Programme (interactive)    
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/north-atlantic-fiddle-organisation-convention-2012/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120203T150000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120203T170000
DTSTAMP:20130525T132244
CREATED:20111010T171302
LAST-MODIFIED:20111010T175052
UID:814@http://imusic.ie
SUMMARY:Digital Tír na nÓg in 2010
DESCRIPTION:Digital Tír na nÓg in 2010: Keeping Traditional Music Forever Young?  Issues of passion\, canon and change revealed in the compilation of The Companion to Irish Traditional Music.    Music Department Seminar Series\, at National University of Ireland\, Maynooth.    Friday\, 3 February 2012\, 3pm
LOCATION:College Green
URL:http://imusic.ie/event/digital-tir-na-nog-in-2010/
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