Details
$190 general / $160 membersDate(s)
Sep 25, 2019 – Nov 13, 2019
6:00pm
Contact
Box Office
888-616-0274
boxoffice@irishartscenter.org
Phone hours:
10am-6pm, Monday-Friday
In person:
Opens 60 minutes before the performance on show days
Location
Please note this class is NOT at Irish Arts Center.
Venue:
Ripley-Grier Studios
520 8th Avenue (between 36th and 37th Street)
Studio 16P
New York, NY 10018
Overview
Tony DeMarco, Wednesdays, 6pm—7pm
8 weekly sessions beginning Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Native New York fiddler Tony Demarco will lead an exploration of the many great fiddle players from Ireland and New York City that shaped our local New York Irish fiddle style and what made it legendary in Irish music globally. Students will listen to and discuss the fiddle music of Sligo greats, Michael Coleman, James Morrison, Andy McGann, Paddy Reynolds, Larry Redican, and others who heavily influenced the NY style. Special attention will be paid to the different ways players used ornamentation and phrasing in their tunes. We will also learn a wide variety of tunes and touch upon how to phrase slow airs and play for different dance styles from set dances to sean nós
This class requires an instrument. For information about instrument rentals and purchases, click here.
Featuring
Our Supporters
Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government, foundation, and corporate partners including Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and the New York City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; the Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation; the Charina Endowment Fund; the Ireland Funds; the Shubert Foundation, Inc.; the Arnhold Foundation; the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; the Irish Institute of New York; the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York; Northern Ireland Bureau; Invest NI; CIE Tours; M&T Bank; the Dead Rabbit; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; and thousands of generous donors like you.
