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Irish Music &

Dance Association 31th Year, Issue No. 6

June

2013

Meitheamh

The mission of the Irish Music and Dance Association is to support, coordinate, encourage and promote high quality activities and programs

in Irish music, dance, and other cultural traditions within the community and to insure the continuation of those traditions.

2013 IMDA Educational Grants Fund Wide Range of Study

By Jan Casey

2013 IMDA Educational Grant applicants came up with some great new and exciting ideas to expand their studies. The Irish Music and Dance Association was delighted to have so many wonderful applications – making the selection process very challenging! This year, six students of the traditional arts of Ireland are receiving grants to help them continue their studies. In each case, the applicant has already made a significant commitment to his or her field of study. Funding for this program comes from the proceeds from IMDA events and donations from the community. Here’s a brief introduction to this year’s grant recipients. Look for more about the recipients and their plans in the months to come: ♣ Lauren Adams-Plehal studies Irish dance with Rince Nua. Lauren will use her

grant for regular private dance lessons to improve her technique with a focus on dance competition.

♣ Ryan Behnke plays both Highland great pipes and uilleann pipes. Ryan will use his grant to purchase an uilleann pipe reed making kit. Ryan’s goad is to become skilled at reed making and to share that skill with others who play this challenging instrument. Ryan is the first person to receive a second IMDA Educational Grant.

♣ Mattie Ernst is both a musician and a dancer, teaching at the Center for Irish

Music and dancing with Green Fire, as well an accomplished theatrical costumer. Mattie will use her grant to study the history, design and construction of Irish dance dresses. Mattie’s goal is to develop a pattern for use by home sewers.

♣ Ingrid Jans studies fiddle with the Center for Irish Music and plays with the

Herringbone Badgers. Ingrid will use her grant to attend the Willy Clancy Festival in Miltown Malbay, County Clare, Ireland this summer.

♣ The Padden Family (dad Greg on guitar, 5-string banjo and vocals, daughter Ella on harp and tin whistle and son Connor on fiddle, mandolin and harmonica) all study at the Center for Irish Music. They also enjoy playing together as an ensemble and will use their grant for a series of family ensemble lessons at the Center to improve their skills.

♣ Meridith Richmond plays Highland great pipes with the Macalester College Pipe Band. Meridith will use her grant to attend the Balmoral School of Piping and Drumming this summer.

As a part of the grant program, each recipient will bring his or her new skills back to an IMDA event at some time in the future. And each will continue to enrich our community in the years to come as they learn and grow. Congratulations and best wishes to these enthusiastic students of the traditional arts of Ireland. And our thanks to the teachers and community elders who assisted IMDA by writing letters of recommendation for all the applicants.

Inside this issue:

Tune of the Month 2

Gaelic Corner 3

MN Irish Weekend 7

June Calendar 10-11

Northwoods Songs 14

Smidirini 18

Ceili Corner 19

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�une of �he on�h by Amy Shaw

This month’s tune is a lovely traditional hornpipe from Co. Donegal as played by Eileen O’Brien, one of the artists who will be teaching and performing during this month’s Minnesota Irish Music Weekend. Eileen is the daughter of the legendary Tipperary accordion player, Paddy O’Brien. An All-Ireland champion on the fiddle, she is also a noted teacher and, like her father, a composer of tunes. She has three solo albums to her credit, the most recent being the unaccompanied Aon le hAon (2012). As one Clare FM announcer remarked, there’s no place to hide on an unaccompanied recording! I especially admire her slow air playing. She has also produced two books of her father’s compositions. Eileen is currently on the faculty of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. She’ll have so much to offer her students and listeners at MIM, so don’t miss it! Check out www.centerforirishmusic.org to see the entire slate of world-class musicians headed here for the Minnesota Irish Music Weekend. Usual disclaimers: Any transcription errors are my own. The notation here

is not meant to be a substitute for listening. It is simply an aid to learning

the tune.

The IMDA Board is:

President: Lisa Conway

Treasurer: Mark Malone

Secretary: Jan Casey

Board Members: John Concannon Juli Acton Paul McCluskey Joan Portel Kathie Luby Editor: John Burns

IMDA Board Meetings are open to the membership. The Board meets regularly on the First Tuesday of each

month at 6 pm at Perkins in HarMar. Members are encouraged to verify the time and location shortly before, as meeting times and locations can change.

Contact Information Write to:

Irish Music and Dance Association 236 Norfolk Ave NW Elk River, MN 55330

Call: 612-990-3122 E-mail: [email protected]

Newsletter Submissions

We welcome our readers to submit articles of interest, news, and notices of events to be published in the newsletter. The deadline is the 20th of the preceding month. Send to: [email protected]

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Gaeltacht Minnesota would like to add our voices to the chorus of "thank yous" and "congratulations" surrounding Martin McHugh's recent release of his new CD, "The Master's Choice." Martin has generously entertained us at Gaeltacht Minnesota events for many a year, kindly donating his time and tunes (and persuading many talented colleagues to do the same) to help us out. We are deeply grateful for his support, truly appreciative of his warm friendship, and simply delighted that this CD will bring his musical talents before an even wider audience. Now, back when Martin first began squeezing that box, he might have released a ceirnín, that is, a "record." Ceirnín

was used for a platter or a shallow wooden dish, and came to be used for "disk" in general, including vinyl ones. (Most of the younger readers of this newsletter have never operated a "record player," but trust me, kids, "records" were not made of wood and they really did produce beautiful music.) These days, the medium of choice is the CD, or "compact disk." The Irish word for "compact disk" is dlúthdhiosca, a straightforward combination of dlúth ("compact") and diosca ("disk"). Diosca is a relatively recent coinage. But that first part, dlúth = "compact," has a long history that is not nearly as straightforward. In fact, dlúth is a noun for "warp," a weaver's term. Inneach is the weft, by the way, and something that has both dlúth and inneach is something that is well-woven, and tight. That applies to, naturally, woven cloth, or even to thing like a knight's coat of mail. By extension, the same expression, dlúth agus inneach,

can indicate, say, a tightly reasoned argument. For example, Sin í an chaint go bhfuil an dlúth is an t-inneach

fúithi, "That's talk that has good warp and weft about it." Dlúthadóir, a "warper," is used to mean "a weaver." (It could also mean "a joiner," another trade that depends on putting things together tightly.) Dlúthacht can refer to

either trade, to the act of "weaving" or of "joining."

This "tightness" meaning allows dlúth to be used in terms like dlúthchara, a "close, steadfast friend." The related verb can suggest "coming close to" and even "embracing." Dlúthaigh liom, "Embrace me!" you might say to someone with whom you are, well, dlúth ("close" or "tight").

When things get "tight" enough, they become solid. Add dlúth to céimseata,

the word for "geometry," and you get dlúthchéimseata, or "solid geometry." Dlúth has moved far beyond weaving to be part of terminology in fields from geology to livestock farming.

But it is probably the dlúthdhiosca, the CD, that has done the most to lift dlúth off the loom and weave it into everyday Irish conversation. Don't miss our Summer Workshop! Set aside Saturday and Sunday, July 27-28, for our third annual Bernie Morgan Memorial Irish Language workshop. We'll be gathering on the lovely campus of St. John's University in Collegeville, MN (a little over an hour's drive from the Twin Cities) for Irish classes at all levels. This is a continuation of a summer workshop we've held for a dozen years, it's a great setting and a fun event. Look for complete details and registration forms on our web site at www.gaelminn.org. And when you visit our site, "embrace" The GaelMinn Gazette, our free monthly e-newsletter with news of events and tips for learning Irish. You'll find an easy link to sign up right at the top of our home page. Tá sé de dhlúth agus d'inneach ann "It's in the warp and weft of him", that is

"It's in the very fiber of his being."

-- Will

�he �aelic �orner By Will Kenny

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More than a Language Course By Rosa Wells

After four weeks spent in the Connemara Gaeltacht taking classes and lectures on everything from the Irish language to African drumming my brain was stuffed full and my body was tired of having a constant cold. Every day I filled another ten pages in my notebook with grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and notes on Irish literature, songs and history. It had been a wonderful time and I was ready to go back home to the Twin Cities. I walked into my Dublin hostel the day before my flight and checked in with the young man behind the desk. He wasn’t much older than myself, and he asked me if I was just arriving or if I’d been. I told him I’d just spent four weeks taking an Irish course in Carraroe. I had to describe to him where it was, about an hour’s drive west of Galway city. “Oh, I had Irish when I was in school!” the man said, “But I don’t remember much of it. How do you say I’m tired? Tá mé …” “Tá mé tuirseach,” I said. And that’s when the seriousness of what I had ex-perienced hit home. In the first few days of my program we’d had a lecture about the language and how quickly it was fading. I had not realized the situation was so acute when I applied to go on this course. On a map the speaker showed us the very small areas where Irish is still spoken day to day, and yet it has become a part of

every school kid’s curriculum. But, as the young hostel clerk in Dublin showed me, that doesn’t mean that those stu-dents always realize its value. I live on the other side of the world and had been learning Irish for less than a year and yet I knew more than that man did. It was a strange thing to think about as I prepared to leave Ireland.

During my four weeks living in Carraroe I attended Irish class six days a week for most of every day. The course moved quickly and I was quite proud of my accomplishments by the end of it. By the final oral exam I was able to sit down and respond to questions in Irish, both prepared and spontaneous. But they did not limit us to the classroom for learning.

The Irish Language summer school program run by the National University of Ireland in Carraroe also pro-vided evening lectures on various topics other than, but related to, language. We had speakers present on mythology and folklore, the origins of Irish literature and the politics of Irish. My favorite evening classes, being a musician and a dancer, were the ones spent learning songs and dances from the region. I learned several traditional songs and the en-tire Connemara Set of dances and performed both in groups at the end of the program.

We also went on field trips to places close by of historic or traditional significance. The most unpleasant day of the trip was one where my class went on an excursion. It rained all day and we all were soaking wet and cold. We’d been to a couple places before, stopped for lunch and we all just wanted to go home. But our guide took us to one final historic spot. We parked the bus and walked down the road past a farm and some pasture. We walked through the field, passing by many sheep and their leavings, and started skidding down the side of the hill towards a cliff dropping off into the bay. The wind whipped and the spray stung our faces. But then we came to the rock formation marking a Neolithic gravesite. It was beautiful despite the weather and well worth visiting.

I attended this program in Ireland primarily for the chance to continue my study of Irish. But the experience provided much more than that. I made several very good friends on the program and my eyes were opened to issues I hadn’t known existed regarding Irish language and culture, both now and in history. And yet it was only a small taste, a little sample platter, and even though at first it left me full to bursting I am now anxious to visit Ireland again and visit more places, hear more stories, listen to more music and understand better the roots of the Irish community here in Min-nesota that has been so welcoming to me.

Rosa Wells received an IMDA Educational Grant in 2012 to study Irish in Ireland. Rosa provided this commentary and

also visited with guests at IMDA's St. Patrick's Day Irish Celebration in March 2013 to meet the program requirement to share her

learning with our community.

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Young Ambassador Named

FOSP has named Ryanna Haglund its 2013 Young Ambassador. Ryanna will travel to Northern Ire-land this summer to represent Minnesota in the Young Ambassador Program sponsored by Friends of Saint Patrick and the Saint Patrick Centre in Downpatrick. The program exposes young adults to the history, culture and politics of the country. During the pro-gram, Ryanna and other Young Ambassadors from across the U.S. and Canada will visit Stormont and meet with members of the Northern Ireland Assembly. The Young Ambassadors will tour sites of histori-cal and cultural interest across the country and participate in programs tailored to their specific interests. Ryanna is a student at the University of Minnesota majoring in kinesiology. After graduation, she plans to

plans to attend graduate school and pursue a career in occupational therapy. While in Northern Ireland,

Ryanna hopes to work with Peace Players International, an organization that uses basketball to unite, edu-

cate, and inspire Protestant and Catholic youth.

Erin Hart Discussion Hosted on June 20th

Local author, Erin Hart will join the Friends of St. Patrick on June 20th for a dis-cussion of her first book, Haunted Ground. The discussion will be held from 6:30-8:00 PM at Claddagh Coffee at 459 West 7th St. in St Paul. The discussion is free and open to all. Her books can be purchased at most book stores, through Amazon.com or at Erin’s web site: (www.erinhart.com)

For more information on Friends of St. Patrick Minnesota Chapter, The St Patrick Centre, membership or

events, please email to:

[email protected]

Or write: Friends of St. Patrick, 4533 Majestic Oaks Place, Eagan, MN 55123

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Catskills Irish Arts Week By Amy Green

Last summer, with the help of the IMDA, my mom and I spent a week in the New York Catskills at the 2012 Irish Arts week. This was the 18th year of the Irish Arts Week, a workshop they like to refer to as the “Willie Clancy week of the West.” The week features a huge variety of opportunities for students to study with world-class instructors, and a way to imagine yourself in a little town in Ireland. Since I am both a fiddler and a dancer I was interested in taking classes for both. The fiddle instructors were: Brid Harper Rafferty, Matt Cranitch, Eimear Arkins and Mick

Conneely visiting from Ireland; Rose Conway Flanagan, Willie Kelly, Tony DeMarco, Patrick Ourceau and Grainne Murphy from the U.S. east coast, and Crissy Crowley from Cape Breton Island. Every year they bring in instructors who represent the whole world of Irish music. The same is true of singing, storytelling, and other Celtic instruments, with instruction in all levels. There are also Set Dance classes for all levels and well attended Set Dance Ceilis every night with music groups such as Matt Cranitch/Jackie Daly/Paule deGrae and Cherish the Ladies. And for those just tagging along with musicians and dancers, there are Irish Arts opportunities for everyone. My fiddle teacher, Brid Harper Rafferty, is the Brid Harper from Donegal, a fantastic fiddler who toured with the North American Comhaltas tour in the 1980s. She doesn’t record, so this was a unique opportunity to learn from her, and to hear her live in concert (without going to Ireland). Step Dancing with Donny Golden, a legendary New York teacher who runs the Donny Golden School of Irish Dance was a great chance to get another eye on my dancing. It was fun to train with new people, with the added bonus of learning to play the card game 21 on breaks. My classes had kids several years younger than me as well as adults who were older than my mother. But no one seemed bothered by the age difference; they just wanted to learn from the masters who were there to teach.

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Typical Day at Catskills Irish Arts Week The evening concerts held at the M.J. Quill Festival grounds were free to those of us taking classes and brought together all of the artists from the week. The different groups of musicians thrown together were inspiring to watch. It was a great way to spend a summer evening outdoors in a tent, with nothing in your head but the music. Then after the concerts we could find our way to sessions led by designated instructors and played with musicians from everywhere. At a very memorable session with Matt Cranitch, Fintan Vallely, Mick Conneely, and Cathal McConnell leading, the group tunes were frequently interrupted by a leader’s beautiful air that would have the entire bar enthralled. It really showed what is great about being part of the traditional Irish music scene – to get together and make great music with people you don’t know, and to pass on and share tunes with each other. The week takes place in East Durham, New York along Highway 145. Several hotels line the road and they attempt to get the cobwebs and mustiness out to accommodate the weeklong onslaught of visitors. Classes are held in the elementary school as well as at the hotels that are participating in the week. There is a shuttle bus that runs the length of East Durham, but a car is really an asset. The week culminates in the Grand Finale - a one-day Andy McGann Festival, featuring the Arts Week faculty and special guests performing traditional Irish music, song, storytelling, and dance. It was a great way to end a week of all-Irish, all-the-time.

Amy Green received a 2012 IMDA Educational Grant to help the expenses of attending Catskills Irish Arts Week. Amy joined on

the trip by her mother, Kathleen Green, who plays fiddle with Heritage, Dunquin, O’Rourke’s Feast and the Twin Cities Ceili Band.

Amy studies Irish dance with O’Shea Irish Dance as well as studying classical violin.

Morning Class: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Afternoon Class: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Lectures & Presentations, Sessions: 4:00 – 5:30 PM Evening Concert: 7:00 – 9:00 PM

Ceilis: 9:00 PM – 12:00 AM Hosted Sessions: 10:00 PM – Midnight Open Sessions: Midnight – ???

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St. Paul Draws World-Class Musicians

for Minnesota Irish Music Weekend June 13-16

Saint Paul solidifies its reputation as a hub for world-class traditional Irish music as internationally renowned musicians converge for the Sixth Annual Minnesota Irish Music Weekend (MIM) June 13-16, 2013, at the Center for Irish Music, 836 Prior Avenue N. in Saint Paul. Featured artists include acclaimed piano and tin whistle player and teacher, Geraldine Cotter and award-winning fiddle player Oisín McAuley, from Irish traditional supergroup, Danú. They are two of five master artists who will participate in the three-day festival, which will include a Saturday evening public concert featuring all five visiting artists, lectures on Irish music history, and weekend workshops in flute, fiddle, tin whistle, song, piano and uilleann pipes for children, teens and adults. Workshops begin at 9:30 am daily and range in price from $15 to $33. The Saturday night concert begins at 7:30 pm and prices for the concert range from $6 - $23. All events are held at The Celtic Junction, 836 Prior Avenue North in St Paul, 55104, 651-815-0083. MIM’s assembly of master Irish music instructors always includes the best talent from Ireland. In addition to Cotter and McAuley, the weekend will feature one of Ireland’s foremost fiddlers, Eileen O’Brien (daughter of the late accordionist and composer Paddy O’Brien of Tipperary), and Eamonn Cotter, a virtuosic wooden flute player, and teacher from Kilmaley, County Clare. They will be joined by Meaití Jó Shéamuis (Mattie Joe Hamish), an acclaimed sean-nós singer and uilleann piper who won the prestigious Corn Uí Riada, the All-Ireland sean-nós competition. “We’re very excited to be bringing this incredible group of traditional Irish musicians to the Twin Cities this year,” says Norah Rendell, executive director of The Center for Irish Music. “This year’s combination of artists is a perfect mix of instruments and personalities and will make for an unforgettable weekend of Irish traditional music and culture.” In addition to hands-on music workshops, MIM offers lectures, demonstrations and interviews for non-musicians on the history of Irish Music featuring guest artists and Minnesota’s own world-class traditional Irish musician, Dáithí Sproule, a member of the Irish super-group Altan. Other activities include a Friday night céilí, social community meals, and sessions throughout the weekend. Additional information at www.centerforirishmusic.org. This activity is funded, in part, by the Minnesota State Arts Board through the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund as

appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of

Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

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The Center for Irish Music

Come check us out at

The Celtic Junction 836 Prior Avenue, St Paul MN

Please check the website for information on

our full range of instruction in traditional Irish music, language , culture and fun.

For class schedule and other information call or email 651-815-0083 [email protected]

Or visit our website

www.centerforirishmusic.org

Dedicated to Handing Down the Tradition

Summer Camps 2013

Join the Center for Irish Music this summer! This summer, we have planned many, fun, creative, physically active and educational music camps to cater to new and experi-enced students alike. With a central location at The Celtic Junction, near to the beautiful Newell Park, many CIM camps include a daily jaunt outside to relax in the fresh summer air.

Irish Music Camp (ages 4-6) Week of 6/24/2013 This camp is designed specifically for early music and movement development. Campers will be introduced to the wonderful world of Irish music and tradition through stories, song, dance and play. Mornings M-F

Introduction to Irish Harp Camp (ages 8-12) Week of 6/24/2013 Learn all about the harp, one of Ireland's oldest instruments! This camp is for new and current students with no prior harp experi-ence. Afternoons M-F

www.centerforirishmusic.org

Rince na Chroi Irish Dance Camp

Has your child ever wanted to try Irish Dance? Well now is their chance! Rince na Chroi hosts a week long summer Irish Dance camp for anyone to try! This is a great opportunity for children who have never Irish Danced or who have some experience to give it a try. The camp is a week long half day camp. Children receive quality Irish Dance instruc-tion by a Rince na Chroi staff member in small groups of about 6-8 along with whole group warm up and stretching. The days are filled with Irish Dancing, along with time for crafts, dance video viewing, playing and fun! Students who attend the camp will receive snack each day, a dance camp t-shirt and a registration packet for Fall 2013 classes.

www.rincenachroi.com/

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CIM Students Find Fun and Success at Midwest Fleadh Cheoil The Center for Irish Music has recently returned from a trip down to St. Louis where they attended the Midwest Fleadh Cheoil. The Fleadh Cheoil is an international traditional Irish music competition that culminates in Ireland in August every year. The Midwest Fleadh Cheoil is one of two qualifying regions in the US and if the musicians place first or second, they qualify to compete at the All Ireland Fleadh. On the weekend of May 17-19th, the CIM sent 15 students, ages 8-18 including the Advanced Youth Ensemble who competed in two group competitions, Ceili Band and Gruppa Cheoil.

It was an amazing weekend of music, laughs, games on the bus (we chartered a bus for the group) including singing "My Eileen is Waiting for Me" for Marty McHugh on the day of his cd launch! The students all played very well and we are very proud to say that many of them qualified to go to the competition in Ireland. On Friday, May 31st, you can hear the Advanced Youth Ensemble in concert at the Celtic Junction for a fundraiser concert. Join us at 7:00pm, tickets $10 or $25/family. The students would like to thank the donors who gave to the Youth Travel Fund for helping to make this trip to St. Louis possible!

Last Monty's newsletter reported in error that the students from the Center for Irish Music had already made

the trip to the Midwest Fleadh. We apologize for the error.

The Center for Irish Music has recently returned from a trip down to St. Louis.

The Advanced Youth Ensemble placed second in the under 18 Ceili Band competition.

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The Amsterdam Bar, S

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North Folk Winery, Harris

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Irish Festival Preview – Save these dates!

♣ Oshkosh Irish Fest, Oshkosh, WI – May 30 – June 2. The Oshkosh festival is held at the Leach Amphitheater in Riverside Park, downtown Oshkosh. Featured are the, Dublin 5, Gaelic Storm, Hounds of Finn, The Langer’s Ball, McPeake, Myserk, Tallymoore, Whiskey of the Damned, and more. Details at www.oshkoshirishfest.com. (Oshkosh is 280 miles from St. Paul – about a 5 hour drive.)

♣ The Fourth Annual Celtic Festival at the Farm at Saint Mathias – Sat. July 21. Plans include music (Gunn Slingers,

Hounds of Finn, Norah Rendell, Rumgumption plus CIM Student Ensembles) plus demonstrations, crafts, and food. Special guests author Erin Hart and TG4 Gradam Ceoil Traditional Composer of the Year Paddy O'Brien who will be speaking on fascinating Irish topics and chatting casually with you. The Farm at St. Mathias is near Brainerd – details at http://www.stmathiascelticfest.com/information/

♣ Dakota Irish Fair, Sioux Falls, SD – Saturday, July 21. Trefoil, Dirty Hurlers and the Wild Colonial Bhoys, plus bagpipes,

demonstrations, workshops and activities for the kids. Details and updates at http://www.dakotairish.org/#!dakota-irish-fair

♣ Dublin Irish Festival, Dublin, OH – Aug. 2 - 4. Full Set, Gaelic Storm, The High Kings, Natalie McMaster, Carlos

Nunez, Red Hot Chili Pipers, Slide, Scythian, and the Young Wolf Tones – plus our own Ross and MacKenzie are just a taste of the bands that will help you experience a world of music! Details at www.dublinirishfestival.org.

♣ Iowa Irish Festival, Waterloo, IA – Aug. 2 - 4. Gaelic Storm, The Langer’s Ball, Red Hot Chili Pipers, Scythian,

Switchback, Trinity Irish Dancers, and Derek Warfield & the Young Wolf Tones are just some of the groups that you can enjoy in a lovely, relaxed park setting just a few hours from the Twin Cities! Get the whole story at www.iowairishfest.com.

♣ Milwaukee Irish Fest, Milwaukee, WI - Aug. 15 thru 18. The granddaddy of them all – featuring 100 acts on 16 stages. The

Festival Showcase this year is Music Nova Scotia, with a dazzling number of artists performing for the first time at Irish Fest.

The details are at www.irishfest.com.

♣ Irish Fest, Rochester, MN – Labor Day Weekend. The Rochester Fest will return! Keep up with the planning at

www.irishfestmn.org.

♣ Michigan Irish Music Festival, Muskegon, MI – Sept. 13- 15. The Barra MacNeils, The Elders, Full Set, Gaelic Storm,

Goitse, Runa, Cathie Ryan, Slide, and We Banjo 3, for a start. Details and updates are posted at www.michiganirish.org.

♣ Indy Irish Fest, Indianapolis, IN - Sept. 13 - 15. Our own Hounds of Finn will be performing. Planning is still under way, details at www.indyirishfest.com

Irish Travel – With Music!

Two of our favorite local bands are offering tours of Ireland in the next 12 months. What a wonderful way to travel –

sharing the trip with others who love the music!

2013 Ireland/Scotland Tour with the Wild Colonial Bhoys. Traveling from Monday, Nov. 4 through Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. The itinerary includes Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Belfast and the Titanic Exhibition, Newgrange, and Dublin with music all along the way. Travel plans by Celtic Journeys, details including the full itinerary at http://

wildcolonialbhoys.com/. This is the third tour that the Bhoys and Maria Flynn-Conway have organized.

Spend St. Patrick’s Day 2014 in Ireland with the Hounds of Finn! Traveling from March 15 through 23, 2014. Visit Galway, the Aran Islands, Killybegs, Giant's Causeway, Belfast, and Dublin and enjoy evening performances by

Hounds of Finn. Travel plans by Celtic Journeys. Details are at http://www.celtic-journeys.com/hof.htm

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IMDA Welcomes New Board Members

The Irish Music and Dance Association is delighted to welcome two new board members, who are filling open two year board positions. Kathie Luby began her involvement with the Twin Cities Irish community in the mid-eighties by joining the Irish language class directed by Denis Clarke that evolved to become Gaeltacht Minnesota. She continues to study Irish Gaelic with Gaeltacht Minnesota. Kathie played several roles with Na Fianna Irish Theater for the fifteen years of its production of Irish plays. These roles included those of actor, stage manager, treasurer, secretary and chairman of the board of directors. Currently, Kathie sings in Irish and English with her five friends in the Giggin' Síles, performing at various Irish events in the Twin Cities throughout any given year. She is very happy to be working with the IMDA board of directors to serve the active and vibrant Minnesota Irish community that includes musicians, dancers, and all those who appreciate Irish culture.

Joan “Joannie” Portel is a ‘St. Paul girl’; friends and family can’t imagine her living anywhere else, though she has. Her children were raised in Ashland, WI on the shores of Lake Superior. Joan returned to her hometown of St. Paul in 1996 and resumed a career in health care research and administration. She held positions in the Medical School and the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, as well as a stint at the University of St. Thomas where she completed a Bache-lor’s in Art History. Joan has been active in the Twin Cities’ Irish community since returning to St. Paul. She has been a frequent Irish dancer at the Dubliner, has served as a volunteer at the Minnesota Irish Fair, and greatly enjoys Irish music and dance. It’s in the blood: Joan’s mother called her ‘my Irish daughter’, as her half Irish, half English mother married a full-blooded Irishman, making Joannie more Irish that Mum!

Joan accepted the University’s early retirement option in 2012 in order to concentrate on an interest in the arts. Joan has a background in decorative painting, including Celtic design. As well as her work as a board member for the IMDA, Joan assists with exhibit installations for the Sacred Arts Program at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis.

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Northwoods Songs: Irish Songs from Lumberjacks and Great Lakes Sailors By Brian Miller

My research has been primarily in songs that were collected from men (and some women) who lived in the

white pine region that stretched from New Brunswick, Canada west through northern Minnesota/northern

Ontario. There was a whole culture of singing in lumber camps and on Great Lakes ships throughout the

1800s that was hugely influenced by the Irish ballad tradition and celebrated much of the Irish ballad

repertoire while also adding new North American songs based on the old ones. Lots of the singers were Irish

too. In the Midwest it was mainly second-generation guys - children of famine immigrants in many cases.

That's the stuff I plan on drawing on for the series. And there's a lot of it! Once you include Wisconsin,

Ontario, Michigan, Upstate New York, Maine and New Brunswick there are piles of great songs out there.

SHANTY BOY

The one that loved her farmer’s son those words I heard her say, The reason why she loved him, at home with her he’d stay, He would stay at home all winter, to the woods he would not go, And when the spring it did come in his grounds he’d plow and sow. “All for to plow and sow your land,” the other girl did say, If the crops should prove a failure your debts you couldn’t pay; If the crops should prove a failure, or the grain market be low, The sheriff often sells you out to pay the debts you owe.”

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When they met up in Virginia, MN in 1923, singer Michael Cassius Dean told song collector Franz Rickaby that he learned this song while himself working as a “shanty boy” (lumberjack) in Michigan around 1878. “Stronertown,” Dean said, was at the head of the Manistee River, six miles up from Manistee, Michigan. I find a Stronach, MI on modern maps that is likely the spot. The song is often called “The Shanty Boy and the Farmer’s Son” and it appears frequently in song collections made throughout the lumbering regions of the Great Lakes and Maritimes. It even managed the rare trip east across the Atlantic where it was collected in County Antrim by Sam Henry in 1936. I transcribed the above melody from the 1924 recording of Dean made by Robert Winslow Gordon. Another, slightly different, version was transcribed by Rickaby in 1923 from the singing of Ed “Arkansaw” Springstead in my hometown Bemidji, MN. This text belongs to a family of similar dialogue songs and poems that date back centuries in England, Scotland and Ireland. Its direct “parent” song may be “I Love My Sailor Boy” which also appears in Dean’s songster The Flying Cloud (my source for the above text). Shanty-boys sang at least a few songs poking fun at sober, boring farmers who, they assured themselves, were sadly lacking in the manly mystique personified by the men chopping down trees and heroically rafting them downriver to the sawmill. You can read Northwoods Songs online at www.evergreentrad.com/northwoods-songs

“As for the sheriff selling the lot, it does not me alarm, For there’s no need of going in debt if you are on a good farm; You make your bread from off the land, need not work through storms and rain, While your shanty boy works hard each day his family to maintain.” “I only love my shanty boy who goes out in the fall, He is both stout and hardy, well fit for every squall; With pleasure I’ll receive him in the spring when he comes home, And his money free he will share with me when your farmer’s son has none.” “Oh, why do you love a shanty boy, to the wild woods he must go, He is ordered out before daylight to work through rain and snow, While happy and contented my farmer’s son can lie, And tell to me some tales of love as the cold winds whistle by.”

“I don’t see why you love a farmer,” the other girl did say, “The most of them they are so green the cows would eat for hay; It is easy you may know them whenever they’re in town, The small boys run up to them saying, ‘Rube, how are you down?’ “For what I have said of your shanty boy I hope you will pardon me, And from that ignorant mossback I hope to soon get free, And if ever I get rid of him for a shanty boy I will go, I will leave him broken hearted his grounds to plow and sow.”

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�u �eoil " Music to the Irish is a living delight, a mysterious key to a host of undiscovered emotions hoarded in the

secrets of the soul." Mairtin Byrnes

This month's Music Hound is Michael Gibbons, Board Chair of Irish Fair Minnesota. While Michael is not

himself a musician, he is an enthusiastic fan of Irish music and served for several years as Chair of Irish

Fair's Entertainment Committee.

The two acts I’m most excited to see this summer at the Irish Fair of Minnesota come to us from Ireland, and represent different approaches to “Irish Music”. As an organizer of the IFM, I hope people take advantage of the opportunity to see these two acts in their Twin Cities debuts. First is the inaccurately named Screaming Orphans, who aren’t orphans, and don’t have much screaming in their shows. They are 4 sisters from Bundoran, County Donegal. Their sound is comparable to the Bangles and the Cranberries. They have been influenced by a wide range of musical acts, including the Beatles, REM, and Abba, and have played with a similarly wide range of acts. They will be making their Twin Cities debut at the IFM Thursday night Kickoff Party and will also perform Friday on the River Stage and Saturday on the Cara Pubs Main Stage. I first saw them a couple of years ago at the Milwaukee Irish Fest and I’m happy that we’ve have finally been able to overcome scheduling challenges and can get them to St. Paul.

The second notable newcomer to this year’s IFM is FullSet. This is a group of 6 highly acclaimed individuals playing together as one of the hottest Trad acts in Ireland in a while. They made the rounds last summer to a couple of US festivals, but this will be their first visit to Minnesota. The group was just awarded "New group of the year" by the well respected Live Ireland Music Awards. They also received the "Best New Band" in the Irish American News Music Awards in 2012. If high-energy Trad music is your thing, this is the act for you! FullSet will be playing both Saturday and Sunday on the Cara Pubs Main Stage.

IFM will feature some returning favorites this year in addition to these exciting new acts. As always we'll have something for everybody. Get excited for August and we'll see you at Harriet Island!

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An LeabhragánAn LeabhragánAn LeabhragánAn Leabhragán (The Bookcase)

The Likeness Tana French

2008 Viking Penguin I love thrillers, especially psychological thrillers (come to think of it, is there any other kind?), so when a friend recommended a new mystery author I'd never heard of, and an Irish one to boot, I dropped everything else I was reading to devour The Likeness. Tana French has spun a chilling and compelling novel, one that reminded me not a little ofthe classic, Rebecca. The setting of thebook, Whitethorn House, is as much of a character as the residents there. Five university grad students are ensconced in a country Georgian great house in the Wicklow Mountains, inherited by the charismatic Daniel. Apparently they have troubled pasts and wrecked families but have bonded themselves into their own family unit, five musketeers against the world: Daniel, Abby, Rafe, Justin, and Lexie. One night one of them turns up murdered and, by chance, the victim Lexie Madison bears a startling likeness to undercover cop Cassie Maddox. Only problem: Lexie Madison does not exist and never has; she was a fictitious creation of the Undercover Dublin Murder Squad, played by Agent Maddox and officially "retired" years ago. With no breaks in the case, and with the murder pointing to a larger and much more ominous crime, Cassie Maddox once again assumes the persona "Lexie" with the cover story that the victim did not actually die. Lexie comes home to Whitethorn House to live with four potential murderers (and a cast of locals with centuries-old grudges against the original inhabitants of the house, thereby increasing the pool of suspects). As Cassie gradually becomes absorbed into the "family", she finds herself attracted to and drawing closer and closer to this oddball group and their lives; they look like the family she, as an orphan, never had and always wanted, four attractive, secretive and potentially dangerous suspects inhabiting a history-haunted house like something out of a fairy tale. With time ticking and tensions increasing in the close-knit group, Cassie Maddox has only weeks to find out why a murdered woman stole the identity of someone who never existed: who is she, and what was she up to? Whether Agent Maddox can get out with her life---and her sanity---

intact remains a question right up to the roller-coaster ending.

Tana French burst onto the scene with her first book in 2008, In The Woods, a best-seller which skyrocketed to the top of the lists with Cassie Maddox introduced as a tough-but-vulnerable murder investigator. Since The Likeness, Ms. French has written two more (not always with Maddox as the protagonist), Faithful Place and Broken Harbor. In this case, all the ballyhoo and praise for her books is true. Having stayed up way too late to finish this book because I just couldn't wait to see what happened, I look forward to meeting Cassie Maddox again, this time in book one. Summer reading suddenly looks more tantalizing with three other Tana French books to look forward to. This is the perfect summer book, if you don't mind a little late-night attack of the goosebumps now and then, and the Irish

countryside provides the perfect backdrop to this who-and-why-dunit.

Sherry Ladig, frequent contributor to this column, is a Saint Paul-based trad musician and composer, and former

reviewer for Fodder, The Hungry Mind Bookstore's newsletter. Sherry welcomes suggestions for books for her to

review----or write one yourself! She may be reached at: [email protected]. Happy Summer Reading!

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Smidirini* By Copper Shannon (*Irish for ‘Bits and Pieces’)

♣ New session at Morrissey’s! Be sure to stop by Morrissey’s Irish Pub on Wednesday nights for a new

session instigated by Jode Dowling! Music starts about 9:30 pm.

♣ “Old” Northfield session on the move! Laura MacKenzie tells us that the Northfield session is starting its third year by rambling on to a new venue The Rueb 'n' Stein ("The Rueb"), 503 Division St, in the corner room, also on Wednesday evenings. The music goes from 7 - 9pm or thereabouts.

♣ More good stuff at Morrissey’s! There’ll be pub singing at Morrissey’s on the first and third Mondays of the month. The “rules” are pretty simple - Sing well, with feeling -- and don't sing "God Save the Queen.'" And try to sing songs that have choruses everyone can join in. See you at Morrissey’s!

♣ Irish dance – one very large family! Irish dance schools from around the world have joined the effort to provide love and support for one of their own. Irish dancer Jane Richard and her family were the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing tragedy. Jane lost a leg and a brother, and her mother was seriously injured. The Glencastle Irish Dancers of Milwaukee have invited Irish dance schools to send along a t-shirt to be used to create a quilt - “Wrapping Jane in Our Love.” The response has been amazing, including all of our own local Irish dance schools (past and present). Now the project has expanded to create quilts for the whole family. Follow the project on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wrapping-Jane-in-Our-Love/477212572350202?fref=ts

♣ Look for the dancers from the new Mactír Academy of Irish Dance at Milwaukee Irish Fest this August.

They’ll be performing with Myserk.

♣ Irish music in a whole new setting! The Hounds of Finn will be joining several other bands at Rock the

Vine 4 on June 8 at the St. Croix Vineyards in Stillwater. Rock the Vine 4 is sponsored by Rock the Cause, whose goal is to impact our community by educating, empowering and inspiring others to make a difference. Their work is based in ongoing engagement that combines concerts, new media, digital music downloads, volunteer and funding drives for our partner causes. Details on tickets for the event are at

http://irockthecause.org/rock-the-vine-4. More on Rock the Cause at http://irockthecause.org.

♣ A new Irish pub in Stillwater? Plans are under way for Pub 112 in downtown Stillwater. Brothers Sam and Jose Leon hope to open their family’s first Irish bar in the multi-level space—once home to Cat

Ballous, Ruby Begonia and Pub Monique — by the end of May. With the exception of the bar and kitchen, the space has been completely gutted and is in the process of being restored. Pub 112 will serve two different menus that are being created by Chef Jose Leon and two traditional Irish chefs. The main-level menu of Pub 112 will be traditional Irish fare. The bar will feature Two Gingers Irish Whiskey, and have 20 draft lines—17 of which will be microbrews from Minnesota and Wisconsin. And Pub 112 will pour Guinness.

♣ Hats Off to the Dubliner! Have you stopped by to see all the improvements at the Dubliner? New layout, new furniture, new stage built by the indomitable Paul McCluskey, the addition of Set Dancing twice a month! Now the new patio is taking shape as well – also with help from Paul. Stop by for music and a

pint and give Tom Scanlon and Geri Connelly a well-deserved pat on the back!

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�eili �orner By Bhloscaidh O’Keane

First Saturday Afternoon Céilí - Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue in Saint Paul, from 2:00 to 5:00. The suggested donation is

$2.00 per person. The dances are taught and called by Paul McCluskey.

First Saturday Night Set Dancing Céilí - The Celtic Junction, 836 Prior Ave., No, St. Paul.

Third Saturday Night Céilí - The Celtic Junction, 836 Prior Ave., No, St. Paul.

Irish Dance Classes:

Céilí Dancing - Wednesday Nights

Dubliner Irish Pub - 2162 University Avenue in Saint Paul. Learn Irish dancing in a genuine Irish pub with a wooden floor that has known a whole lot of dancing feet. Steps and dances are taught by Paul McCluskey, Súin Swann, and Kirsten Koehler. Basic beginning steps are taught beginning at 7:30, with advanced lessons and dancing continuing until 9:30 PM. Year-round; no

children, and must be of legal drinking age. Free.

Set Dancing - Tuesday Nights

Dubliner Irish Pub - 2162 University Avenue in Saint Paul. Set Dancing at 7:00 pm on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month, music by the Twin Cities Ceili Band. The cost is $5 for the band, beginners welcome, for more information call Geri at the

Dubliner (651)646-5551.

Set Dancing - Wednesday Nights

The Celtic Junction - 836 N Prior Ave, St. Paul. Taught by Karen Cieminksi. This class is taught at a basic/intermediate level.

Everyone is welcome. Cost: $8 per session.

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