BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Fintan Vallely//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Fintan Vallely X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://imusic.ie X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Fintan Vallely X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120625 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120626 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 CREATED:20120404T134708 LAST-MODIFIED:20120404T134731 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: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/craiceann-inniseer-bodhran-festival/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120415 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120416 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 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: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/judith-guthries-jig-rte-radio-1-ireland/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120717 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120718 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 CREATED:20120125T150535 LAST-MODIFIED:20120125T150535 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. In the church in the village of Tocane St. Apre. LOCATION: 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:20120519T122103 CREATED:20120125T150352 LAST-MODIFIED:20120125T150942 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: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/catskills-irish-music-week-new-york/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120707 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120715 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 CREATED:20120125T150235 LAST-MODIFIED:20120125T150235 UID:944@http://imusic.ie SUMMARY:Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy DESCRIPTION:Teaching flute for the week during the summer school. LOCATION: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/scoil-samhraidh-willie-clancy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120525 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120527 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 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: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/feile-john-mcgrath-westport/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120412 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120416 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 CREATED:20120125T145424 LAST-MODIFIED:20120404T124814 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: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/cruinniu-na-bhfliuit-cuil-aodha-co-cork-flute-tuition/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120427 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120501 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 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: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/conference-at-emory-university-atlanta/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110707 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110708 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 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: 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:20120519T122103 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: 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:20120519T122103 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: 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:20120519T122103 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: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/melbourne-monash-university-guest-paper/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100807 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100808 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 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: 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:20120519T122103 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: 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:20120519T122103 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: 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:20120519T122103 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: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/whistle-workshop-belfas/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110415 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110416 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 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: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/hunting-for-borr-ane/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110726 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110727 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 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: 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:20120519T122103 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: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/ben-lennon-book-launch/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110627 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110628 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 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: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/lecture-performance-for-usit-summer-school/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110629 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110630 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 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: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/brian-moore-concert/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110913T190000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110913T210000 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 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: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/flute-performance-in-news-by-brendan-ellis/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120927 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120928 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 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: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/from-amateur-professional-to-professional-amateur-reflections-on-the-traditional-singing-genre/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120627 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120702 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 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: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/north-atlantic-fiddle-organisation-convention-2012/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120203T150000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120203T170000 DTSTAMP:20120519T122103 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: URL:http://imusic.ie/event/digital-tir-na-nog-in-2010/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR