Ceardlann

We are delighted to welcome to Gaelscoil Choráin the traditional musicians Matt Cranitch and Eoin Ó Riobhaigh on Thursday next 28^th November.

In this workshop Matt Cranitch and Eoin Ó Riobhaigh will introduce the fiddle and uilleann pipes, explain how they work and demonstrate how they are played.  In addition, the various different kinds of tunes and rhythms featured in Irish traditional music, such as jigs, reels, slides, polkas, hornpipes and slow airs will be outlined.  To conclude the workshop, they will play a few sets of tunes together, in effect making the occasion both a class and a concert.

Matt Cranitch has performed extensively at home in Ireland and abroad, and has presented many lectures, master-classes and workshops.  An authority on the fiddle –music of Sliabh Luachra, he teaches courses in traditional music in UCC.  He is a consultant for traditional music programmes on TG4, and has been a recipient of the ‘University College Cork Hall of Fame Award’.

Eoin Ó Riabhaigh comes from a famous piping family and his father was the late Míchéal Ó Riabhaigh, who was very well know as a piper and teacher of the instrument.  Eoin is holder of several All-Ireland piping titles, and has performed widely in U.S. and Europe.  He has presented master-classes in various countries and is also highly regarded as a maker of uilleann pipes.