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[Mike_L]

WORKSHOP: Irish Traditional Song with Aoife Clancy

Sunday October 2nd 2011 - in the afternoon 2-4 pm $20-
at The Canaan Institute (Mike and Raylene's workshop)
RSVP to Mike to reserve a seat and for directions
michael@canaaninstitute.org

This workshop will focus on songs that Aoife learned from her father Bobby Clancy, and other family members growing up in Co Tipperay, Ireland. The class will include material at all levels, from childhood songs to advanced material with a brief history on the background of the songs. Aoife will also be teaching some love songs from around the time of the Napoleonic wars and other unusual family songs that were passed down from her grandparents on both sides. She will work on the pacing of a song and also help students develop their own individual style and approach to singing. There will be some time spent on vocal technique, ornamentation and warm up exercises for the vocal chords. The focus will be on the oral tradition and learning to sing by ear, so students should bring some recording device for class. Aoife will encourage students to sing and help them overcome the "fear of performing".

http://www.aoifeclancy.com/

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[Mike_L]

About Aoife

Aoife Clancy (pronounced “Eefa”) brings a refreshing new voice to folk music, one that ranges from traditional Irish songs to ballads and contemporary folk. Aoife comes from the small town of Carrick-on-Suir, in Co Tipperary, Ireland, where her musical career began at an early age. Her father Bobby Clancy of the legendary Clancy Brothers, placed a guitar in her hands at age ten, and by age fourteen was playing with her father in nearby pubs.



She later moved to Dublin, where she studied drama at the Gaiety School of Acting. After a season at the Gaiety, Aoife was invited to do a tour of Australia. There she performed at festivals and concerts sharing the stage with some of Ireland’s greatest performers, including Christy Moore and the Furey Brothers. Her performances also include a Caribbean cruises with the Clancy Brothers, the Milwaukee Irish Festival and a seven week tour of the United States with the renowned Paddy Noonan Show.

In 1995 Aoife was asked to join the acclaimed group “Cherish the Ladies”, which is one of the most sought-after Irish American groups in history. For the past four years Aoife has toured extensively doing no less than two hundred dates a year throughout the United States and Europe. She has been a featured soloist with orchestras such as the Boston Pops and Cincinnati Pops and, while performing with Cherish the Ladies, collaborated with the Boston Pops on their Grammy nominated Celtic album.

Now with seven recordings under her belt in the last decade, Aoife has clearly established herself as one of the Divas of Irish and contemporary Folk Music. She has recorded two solo projects “Its about Time” and “Soldiers and Dreams” on Rego Records. On her debut CD “It’s About Time,” Aoife presents some traditional favorites, such as “Factory Girl” and “Mrs. McGrath,” but she also presents a sassy rendition of Leon Russelson’s “Don’t Get Married Girls.”

As one reviewer remarked, “she has a breadth of styles that make her concerts fascinating. Her singing would melt packed ice with it’s warmth and richness”—Mike Jackson, Canberra Times. On Aoife’s second Rego solo album, “Soldiers and Dreams,” Al Riess, from Dirty Linen magazine, wrote: “Soldiers and Dreams has a contemporary-meets-traditional-music feel and Clancy’s smooth, expressive singing works both ways—ensuring a successful merger of the two approaches and an enjoyable listening pleasure”.

Currently, Aoife is touring with her own band in support of her two Rego solo releases and her latest Appleseed release “Silvery Moon”. When she comes to a town near you, be sure not to miss this totally enchanting performer.

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[Mike_L]

WORKSHOP: Irish Traditional Song with Aoife Clancy. Yes, there is still room!! The daughter of Bobby Clancy of the Clancy Brothers from Ireland is teaching a vocal workshop on traditional Irish song. Aoife also is very well know as part of the group “Cherish the Ladies”. Sunday October 2nd 2-4 pm RSVP to Mike to reserve a seat! http://canaaninstitute.org/mikesmusicblog/?p=1692

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[Mike_L]

photos https://picasaweb.google.com/111695742714689219857/AoifeClancyTraditionalIrishSongsOct022011?authkey=Gv1sRgCOqf17Oeoc-AIw
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