Irish Workshop and Concert

with

Fiddler Tony DeMarco

SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 2011

Tony DeMarco has been performing and teaching Irish fiddle music for more than 30 years. He is now one of leading living exponents of the New York City/Sligo fiddle style.

The late Paddy Reynolds, Andy McGann and Martin Wynne were very influential on Tony’s playing, as was the music of New York/Sligo fiddlers of the generation prior, including Michael Coleman, James Morrison, Paddy Killoran, and James “Lad” O’Beirne.

Tony’s album The Sligo Indians, released in 2008 on the Smithsonian Folkways label, is tribute to this style and the musicians that shaped his music. His landmark The Apple in Winter album with Brian Conway, now available on Compass Records, is a highly regarded example of the old Sligo-style twin fiddle music from New York City.

As well as performing and teaching at festivals and music camps across the nation, Tony’s fiddling has been featured in music programs at New York University, as well as the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick headed by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.

Visit Tony's website at www.tonydemarcomusic.net

NOTES FROM TONY ON THE WORKSHOP:

I focus on teaching tunes from the many great Irish musicians that settled in the New York City area over the course of the past century, and shaped the Irish traditional music scene here.

The workshop is aimed at all instruments. I teach basic, bare bones settings of tunes first, then record them with variations that students can try later at home, so bring your recording devices.. I've found that people like this all-instruments approach because they all leave with same settings of the same tunes, which makes for more cohesive sessions and jams. I have had the harp, cello, guitar, mandolin, bouzouki, flute, concertina, accordion, all learning tunes together.

To register for the workshop, email Gary Talkiewicz at Fiddlins_fun@yahoo.com or call 570-639-2244

WORKSHOP: 4:00 pm. Cost: $20

CONCERT:  7:00 pm to 8:30pm Cost: $15

WORKSHOP AND CONCERT: $30 for both.

LOCATION: Unitarian Universalist Church, 183 Riverside Dr, Binghamton. (Next to Lourdes Hospital). Parking and entrance in back.

TUNES TAUGHT AT THE WORKSHOP:
(audio files posted with Tony DeMarco's permission)

Charlie Mulvihil's Jig