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Scottish Traditional Music Workshop
“Introduction to Traditional Scottish Tunes: Let’s Play for Dancers” With Mary Abdill
Introduction to Traditional Scottish Tunes: Let’s Play for Dancers is a workshop to introduce local musicians who are new to traditional Scottish music. Learn some tunes traditionally played for Scottish Ceilidh dances. If you don’t know a reel from a strathspey, you will, by the end of the workshop.
Ages 14 and up. We encourage young people to come, but if you are under 21, you will need to be accompanied by an adult over 21, in order to enter the building.
Musicians should be intermediate level and up, but advanced beginners are welcome as well. NOT for absolute beginners.
Acoustic Instruments Only. No amplification.
For example: Strings (fiddle, cello, bass, guitar, dulcimer, mandolin, banjo, etc.), winds (e.g. recorders, flutes, and tin whistles), bodhràn, accordion, concertina, and piano, etc.
Sheet music provided. Be prepared to transpose, if not in the key of your instrument. You can also learn the tunes by ear. The teacher will teach the melodies using Concertina and Piano, and will teach rhythm backups using piano.
No walk-ins. You must pre-register to attend the workshop.
Admission is $35 for members; $40 for non-members.
Register by 5pm, Friday, March 8, 2024 through the website www.nycaledonian.org.
For more information, email Barbara.Rice@nycaledonian.org
WHEN:
Saturday, March 9, 2024, 2-4 pm
WHERE:
Ripley-Grier Studios
520 Eighth Avenue (between West 36th & West 37th Streets, near Penn Station)
10th Floor, Studio 10A
New York, NY
Please bring a photo I.D. (e.g. driver’s license) for the bldg. security desk.
MARY ABDILL’S BIO
Musician and dance instructor, Mary Abdill, has been dancing Scottish Ceilidh and Scottish Country dances for many decades. She has a full teaching certificate from the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society. Her first examiner was Dr. Jean Milligan, co-founder of the Scottish Country Dance Society in 1923. You probably know Mary, as she regularly calls and plays the piano/keyboard at the ceilidh dances at the NYCC Burns Supper. She is the current band leader for the Contrapolitans contra dance band and for the LITMA contra dance band, and regularly plays with the Princeton Contra dance Pickup Band.
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03/09/2024 02:00 PM
03/09/2024 04:00 PM
America/New_York
Scottish Traditional Music Workshop
Workshop hosted by Mary Abdill
Ripley-Grier, 520 Eighth Avenue
New York Caledonian Club
Barbara.rice@nycaledonian.org
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COST
Non-members: $40
Members: $35
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