Scottish Traditional Music Workshop

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Scottish Traditional Music Workshop

Introduction to Traditional Scottish Tunes: Let’s Play for Dancers

With Mary Abdill accompanied by Jenny Evans

Learn tunes traditionally played for Scottish Ceilidh dances and more. Tunes will be taught during the first half of the class, and then played in the second half as a Scottish jam (i.e., session).

If you don’t know a reel from a strathspey, you will by the end of the workshop.

Age 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.

Acoustic instruments only. No amplification. For example: Strings (fiddle, cello, bass, guitar, dulcimer, mandolin, banjo, etc.), winds (e.g., recorders, flutes, tin whistles), bodhràn, accordion, concertina, piano, etc.

Sheet music provided. Be prepared to transpose if sheet music is not in the key of your instrument. The teacher will teach the melodies using concertina and piano and will teach rhythm backups using piano.

Admission: $35 for members; $40 for non-members for each day’s workshop.

Register by 5 p.m. on the Friday before the scheduled Sunday class by clicking "Purchase."

For more information, email Barbara.Rice@nycaledonian.org

WHEN:

Sunday, October 5 (Time: 2-4 p.m.)
Sunday, November 2 (Time: 2-4 p.m.)
Sunday, December 7 (Time: 3-5 p.m.)

Participants may take one, two, or all three workshops.

WHERE:

Ripley-Grier Studios
520 Eighth Avenue (between West 36^th & West 37^th Streets, near Penn Station)
10^th Floor, Studio 10A
New York, NY
Please bring a photo I.D. (e.g., driver’s license) for the building security desk.