Feb
8
Music Workshop with Steve Cooney and Dermot Byrne.
The Courthouse.
Saturday 8th February.
12 pm – 2 pm.
We’re delighted to have two of Ireland’s finest musicians with us on February 8th for a music workshop open to children and adults.
Steve Cooney is best known for his development of an influential style of guitar accompaniment to traditional Irish dance music which he developed in West Kerry, and for which he won the National Entertainment Award with Séamus Begley in 1997.
Dermot Byrne hails from the Inishowen peninsula of Co. Donegal, the most northerly part of Ireland, and has played accordion from the early age of four. He learned from his father Tomás O’Beirn from Teileann in South West Donegal who is an enthusiastic promoter of the tradition. Dermot at the age of only seven had already achieved an All Ireland Title at the Buncrana Fleadh Cheoil in the under eleven category for button accordion in 1976.
Tickets €15.
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