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Your Program To A Uniquely Irish Alaskan Experience
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Contact us at [email protected] if you would like to learn more about serving on organizing committee and/or on the board!
Thank you for joining us in our presentation of the first Galway Days Virtual Irish Festival. It has
been an unprecedented year for all of us. Usually the production schedules for a one day festival runs hours of planning for months in advance and then a 15 hour day. This year, taking the Festival to a virtual platform has flipped the workload. Our board has done the usual hours of planning, but that has been augmented by many more hours of a steep learning curve while we learned how to take our Festival to a virtual platform. On Festival day we will all be at our desks watching per-formances, workshops, vendors and, of course, we will drop into Reilly’s Virtual pub with our favorite libation. I’d like to thank all our board members for their time and efforts. I’d also like to thank our sponsors: Reilly’s Irish Pub, Both Ears Live Sound, K & H Graphics, Celtic Community of Alaska, Kate O’Dell, Cathy Steen and Frostline Productions. We hope you enjoy the festival and are keeping safe.
President
A Message from the President
The Irish Club of Alaska is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing Alaskans with quality learning opportunities in Irish and Irish-American arts, language, music and literature.
Irish Club of AlaskaPO Box 241854Anchorage, Alaska 99524 Like us on B
email: [email protected]
Historical and cultural preservation project, chronicling the Irish involvement in Alaska.
What’s your story?
Alaska Board of DirectorsPresident: Peggy Monaghan
Vice President: Dawn Berg
Treasurer: Tom Brooks
Secretary: Claire Wilson
Board Members:Mary Ann Green
Pati Thomas
Sean McGrane
Lillian Marvin
Membership/Newsletter:Kate O’Dell e. [email protected] p. (907) 272-2760
Peggy Monaghan
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Main Stage Performance Times 11am-5:30pm
(Alaska Standard Time)
2:10 . . . . . . . . .Brian Conway, Rose Flanagan & Kieran Flanagan.
2:45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clare Horgan3:30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dawn Berg3:50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Walsh4:15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Anne Green4:20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Whelan5:00 . . . . . . .Tonia Opland and Mike Freeman5:25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Anne Green
11:00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wings to Fly11:35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Philip and Natalie12:00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Anne Green12:10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .The Derry Aires12:50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jubilee
1:20 . . . . . . . . . . . . Storyteller - Betsy Scott1:45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Ann Green1:50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tommy Sands
Take a break and stop in at Reilley’s Virtual Irish Pub (p.6), for song circle, a drink or to and maybe even a little talk of who knows what.
Help support the Irish Club of Alaska with the purchase of our festival t-shirt. $25 + shipping and handling. Rumor has it that you’ll start singing better, be impervious to the virus and folks will like you even more than they do now once you put it on. No guarantees though.
Click Here to place your order
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11:00 AMIrish Guitar Accompaniment and Finger-style DADGAD TuningJohn Walsh | Registration: $20.00 Learn how to accompany Irish jigs, reels and hornpipes, and practice finger-picking tunes using the alternative tuning DADGAD
John is an Irish-American guitarist with 40 years performing, recording, teaching and healing with sound who has worked with, Jameson’s Revenge, Brian Conway, Paddy Keenan, Pat Kilbride, Frankie Gavin, Leo O’Kelly and many others.
11:00 AMBeginner Clog Dance WorkshopDixine Schiavi | Registration: Free Learn a few easy-simple-basic clog dance steps, then learn a fun beginner-level clog dance to Irish music (of course!).
Dixine has over 40 years of performance & competitive clog dance history. She is the founder, instructor, and choreographer of the all-female clog & percussive dance team in Anchorage, the Midnight Sun Cloggers. Dixine does not teach regular clog dance classes to the public, but only the occasional beginner workshop; this one for Galway Days will be the only one she plans to teach in 2020.
W O R K S H O P S W O R K S H O P S12:00 Noon Intermediate and Advanced FiddleBrian Conway | Registration: $25.00 Brian’s class will focus on the relationship between bowing, phrasing and ornamentation in traditional Irish fiddling. Repertoire will mostly consist of traditional tunes rather than recent compositions with a particular focus on classic traditional tunes. Brian will teach one tune from each of the three main dance forms, jig, hornpipe and reel. This will be an interactive format in which questions from the students will be encouraged.
Brian Conway, premier Irish-American fiddler, performs with a skill, grace and force that are steeped in tradition but distinctively his own. Well known in the Irish/Celtic community, Conway has won numerous All-Ireland fiddling competitions, and has been called one of the best fiddlers of his generation. Nothing is missed or missing in Brian Conway’s Sligo-style fiddling.Dirty Linen Magazine - “Certainly one of the finest Irish-American musician fiddlers”
1:00 PM Ogham Writing – An IntroductionKevin Hall | Registration: Free Learn about the ancient Celtic alphabet from the 4th – 7th centuries AD. A worksheet will be provided via email with historical notes and a chart of the letter forms. As time permits, we will go over the history, some modern day uses and how you can write out your own name using your newly learned information.
Kevin Hall is a graphic artist from Anchorage. His artwork has been a feature of Irish and Scottish history exhibits and at the Alaska Scottish Highland Games. He and his wife Anne Freitag, own Ancient Celtic Scribes and provide custom Ogham names written out while you wait at various Celtic events throughout Alaska.
Register on our website for the workshops offered via Zoom. You’ll be sent the meeting link and with it any support material or instruction sheets needed. Please load the program and test your system prior to the workshop.
Click here to sign up for workshops
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2:00 PM Traditional Irish SongClare Horgan | Registration: $20.00The workshop will begin with a short performance by Clár, of a verse or two of a song from each of the five main Gaeltachtaí, (Irish speaking areas of Ireland), embracing songs in both English and Irish, from the celebration of Hunting in South-West Kerry to the rousing rhythmic love songs of West Cork, from the haunting ballads of Waterford to the political satire of Donegal. Two of these songs will be then be chosen as the focus for the workshop, which will be learned and sung together, with copies of words and some background information supplied. All levels and ages welcome.
As a bi-lingual child steeped in the Irish language, song and dance of her native Uíbh Ráthach (South Kerry), the first songs Clare heard were sean-nós. She later took a Post-Graduate Diploma in Jazz in Leeds, West Yorkshire, leading her to live and perform in Belfast, London, Paris and Beirut. But it was always the songs and stories of her childhood to which she returned.
3:00 PM History of the Irish in AlaskaSean McGrane | Registration: FreeThis workshop will cover prominent Irish and Irish-Americans who had an impact on Alaska. This will also cover locations and landmarks in Alaska.
Sean McGrane grew up mining for gold in Alaska’s Fortymile Country and is a board member of the Irish Club of Alaska. He’s the founder of the Irish-Alaska Project (irishalaskaproject.com), a preservation project collecting the history of the Irish and Irish Americans in Alaska from 1867-1917.
4:00 PM Remote Bodhran for Lockdown DrummersHunter Woofter | Registration: $10.00This bodhran workshop is for drummers of all skill. Students will need to provide their own drum or substitute (pizza boxes work well for this). Class will include a brief introduction to the anatomy of the drum and tipper, and a variety of playing techniques.
Hunter Woofter has played bodhran for 17 years as part of Rogues and Wenches, an Irish Alaskan pub band based in Anchorage. He plays a variety of percussion instruments, but likes his bodhran the most, wandering Ireland with his drum in his back, chasing sessions when travel budget allows.
5:00 PM The Irish LanguageCaoimhín De Barr | Registration: FreeIn this workshop, we will learn about the most distinctive feature of Irish culture: the Irish or Gaelic language. Participants will learn about the history of the language, its position in contemporary Irish society, and how to speak a little bit of the language for themselves!
Caoimhín De Barra is a native of Blarney in Co. Cork and is an associate professor of history at Gonzaga University. He is a passionate supporter of the Irish language and advocate for its revival. He is the author of Gaeilge: A Radical Revolution, a book which explores many of the contemporary issues surrounding the Irish language and in which Dr. De Barra outlines how the language could be revived.
W O R K S H O P S W O R K S H O P SClick here to sign up for workshops
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Helena Byrne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://helenabyrne.comBrian Conway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.brianconway.comClare Horgan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .http://www.clarehorgan.comJim Kerr & Denise Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.dulcimerdiva.com Shonti Elder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.shontielder.comJohn Walsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.noresidemusic.comJohn Whelan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.johnwhelanmusic.comTania Opland & Mike Freeman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.opland-freeman.comTommy Sands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.tommysands.comThe Derry Aires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.arcticsiren.comPhilip Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.pmprice.com Goodstein Ceramics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.goodsteinceramics.com Rogues and Wenches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.roguesandwenches.comTimber & Tundra Leather Co. . . . . https://www.etsy.com/shop/TimberandTundraYule Farm LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.yulefarm.squarespace.comCrepes de Paris . . . . . . . . https://www.facebook.com/CrepesDeParis/?tn-str=k*FFlower and Feathers . . . . . . . . . https://www.facebook.com/flowerfeatherscrafts/Kristina’s Crafts . . . . . . . . . . . . https://www.facebook.com/KristinasCrafts907/Paper Gold Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . https://www.papergoldpublishing.com/Patrick Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.patrickball.comPeter’s Creek Pottery . . . . . . . . . https://www.facebook.com/PetersCreekPottery/Rockpile Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . https://www.facebook.com/RockPileDesigns/Sew Stuffed . . . . . https://www.facebook.com/pg/Sew-Stuffed-1105876066153472/Simply Susan . https://www.facebook.com/Simply-Susan-in-AK-2249207908640045/Lola Bug Creations . . . . . . . . . . . . https://www.etsy.com/shop/lolabugcreationsCelestial Embers Arts . . . . . . . . https://www.etsy.com/shop/CelestialEmbersArts
Our Virtual Vendor fairE
Open: 11am- 6pm AST, August 8th, 2020
The Real Reilly’s Irish Pub is at 317 Fireweed Lane in Anchorage and has long been a meeting spot for the Irish Club of Alaska.We are grateful for the generous hospitality Jeannie and her staff have shown us over the years.
IF YOU’RE REGISTERED
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No I.D. required
Support our vendors as we all come together to celebrate what we have to offer each other in these strange times.
In the Snug (a breakout room)
Quiet Chatting for when the main pub is busy
Meet the Vendors (a breakout room)
11-Noon | 1:00-3pm | 4-6pm
11:00 . . . . . . . .Talk Geneaology with Sean McGrane12 noon . . . Helena Byrne Storyteller, Kilkenny Ire.1:00 -3:00 . . . . Irish Trad Session -Songs and Tunes
-Hosted by Maureen McNally- join us to sing a song or play a tune
3:00 . . . . . . . . . History of the Irish in the Civil War with Tom Brooks
4:00 -6:00 . . . . . . . . . . . Song Circle with Dawn Berg (join us to sing an Irish song)
In The Main Pub
Virtual Irish Pub
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