Join us August 13th, 14th and 15th for the annual Irish Fair on Harriet Island. Once again, we’ll be setting up shop at Keegan’s Pub Traditional Music Tent. We’re bringing up young piper extraordinaire Joey Abarta and will have other surprise guests on hand. This is always a fun weekend for the whole family and the Piper’s Tent is a wonderful place to escape the crowds and enjoy some traditional music. We hope to see you there!
Saturday, August 14th
11:00 am – Seisiún with David and Suzannne Rhees
1:00 pm – Uilleann Pipes (Joey Arbarta)
2:00 pm – Seisiun with Tom Dahill
3:00 pm – Learners Seisiún with Jason Novak
5:00 pm – Uilleann Pipes (Joey Abarta)
6:00 pm – Seisiún with John McCormick and Amy Shaw
Sunday, August 15th
11:00 am – Seisiún
1:00 pm – Uilleann Pipes (Tom Klein)
3:00 pm – Seisiún with Tom Dahill
5:00 pm – Uilleann Pipes (Joey Abarta)
Posters for Sale
Patrick Maun has been creating posters and other items for the GNIPC and other Irish music organizations for quite some time. He’s decided to sell these on his website. Take a took and stock up on some collectible posters!
Join Today!
The Great Northern Irish Pipers Club is group uilleann (pronounced: illan) pipers located in beautiful Minnesota. The Irish Uilleann pipes are a bellows blown bagpipe, quite different from the loud Scottish Highland pipes commonly seen in parades. The uilleann pipes are a fairly quiet, complex bagpipe ideal for playing jigs, reels and mournful airs. But you knew that already, didn’t you.
The club normally meets once a month and consists of everything from very experienced pipers to rank beginners. Once a year, the third weekend in May, we hold an annual gathering called a Tionól that is filled with workshops, sessions and wonderful piping.
New to the site is the ability to join the club or renew your membership online via PayPal. Just visit our membership page to join today.
Celtic Music Open Mic Night
What a great evening! We’ll be hosting another open mic night soon!
Date: Saturday, July 24, 2010 Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm Location: The Celtic Junction
Calling all Irish trad musicians, dancers, story tellers and the gathered masses…
The Irish Music and Dance Association and the Great Northern Irish Pipers Club present ——> Open Mic Night at the Celtic Junction!
After the great turn-out and success of the April Open Mic Fund-raising event for the GNIPC, we decided it would be great to have a non-fundraiser Open Mic Night on a semi-regular basis, as a way to provide the opportunity to local performers to show off their skills! GNIPC has teamed up with the IMDA to make this happen.
Never played on stage before? Got a new piece you’ve worked up and Want to try out? Here’s your chance before a sympathetic crowd! Come show your support for our wonderfully talented local celticmusicians and dancers and bring your instruments/voices/dancing shoes/what have you.
What a weekend! Thanks to everyone for coming out and making this years floating excitement a weekend to remember. Mark your calendars, next year is going to be stellar and out 10th annual tionól!
Remember you can always donate to the club anytime.
Donation via PayPal
May 14th – 16th, 2010
The annual GNIPC Tionól will be quite the event this year. We’ll be floating on a boat with our visiting artists Ivan Goff and Skip Cleavinger. The event will take place aboard the Convington Inn B&B with a Saturday concert at the all new Kieran’s Pub Titanic Lounge. Register now as we are limiting registration to 30 people. More information will be posted over the coming weeks so keep your eyes glued to the site. The information page for the tionól is here.
The schedule is now online. You can view it here or click here to download a printable PDF.
Uilleann Pipes for Highland Pipers – 3:00PM Sunday, May 16th. Only $10!
Have you ever been curious about the uilleann pipes? Are you a Great Highland bagpiper who is wondering what the similarities and differences are between these bagpipe cousins? Then this is your opportunity to gain some insight from someone who has his feet firmly planted in both worlds, guest Highland and uilleann piper Skip Cleavinger. You will glean some understanding of what aspects of piping transfer from the Highland Pipes to the uilleann pipes…and what do not… and where the two instruments share common ground.
