The Tionól Concert Approaches!

Are you planning on attending this Saturday’s GNIPC 2013 Tionól Concert? It will feature acclaimed uilleann pipers Joey Abarta, Patrick D’Arcy, and Patrick Cannady, with Karen Cook Cannady on fiddle and additional special guests. A finer night of piping, you won’t encounter this year! With performers of such stature, this will be an especially memorable…

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Set List: Sept. 1 General Meeting

Here’s a complete list of tunes we played at this past Sunday’s General Meeting: 1.  P&O Polka/Riding on a Load of Hay/Muirsheen Durkin/Jimmy Doyle’s Polka 2.  Walls of Liscarroll/East at Glendart/Bill Harte’s Jig 3.  March of the Kings of Laois 4.  Frost is All Over/Munster Buttermilk (jig) 5.  Out on the Ocean (jig; in both…

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Special Irish Fair Gen. Meeting: Sat. Aug. 10

Our next General Meeting will be held in public, at the Keegan’s Pub Traditional Music tent at Irish Fair at St. Paul’s Harriet Island on Saturday, August 10 from 1:00 – 2:00 pm. You might also enjoy participating in the 2-hour open (non-GNIPC) session that begins at 3:00 pm, and seeing Tom Klein perform at…

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Tionól Registration Open!

Registration is now open for the The Great Northern Irish Pipers Club’s 2013 Tionól, to be held from Friday 27 September through Sunday 29 September 2013 at The Celtic Junction in St. Paul, Minnesota (836 Prior Avenue, 55104). The GNIPC 2013 Tionól features internationally acclaimed performing artists Joey Abarta, Patrick Cannady, and Patrick D’Arcy. Your…

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Mtg. Set List 7/7/2013

What a great turnout and proliferation of tunes we had yesterday! For those of you who missed it, here’s what we played: [march from Lúnasa’s first album] Return From Fingal O’Sullivan’s March / O’Sullivan the Great (marches)* An Roghair Dubh (Black Rogue) / Rolling Wave (jigs) Kitty Lie Over / Garret Barry’s Jig Out on…

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GNIPC 2013 Tionól: Artists booked!

The Great Northern Irish Pipers Club, the upper Midwest U.S.’s premier uilleann piping association, is pleased to announce that internationally acclaimed performing artists Joey Abarta, Patrick D’Arcy, and Patrick Cannady will be the featured clinicians for its 2013 Tionól, to be held from Friday 27 September through Sunday 29 September 2013 in St. Paul, Minnesota.…

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Next Gen. Meeting: Sun. June 2nd

The next General Meeting of the Great Northern Irish Pipers Club will be held next Sunday at 3:00 pm at The Celtic Junction, 836 Prior Ave., in St. Paul. Mick will give a demonstration, “Combining a C Chanter With D Drones.” (He’s got an article by the same name in the current issue of The…

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Gen. Mtg. Notes

On Sunday 07 April 2013, the General Meeting was attended by 12 pipers (and two friends), the most players we’ve in one sitting in years! Members drove in from St. Cloud, Eau Claire, and even Thunder Bay, Ontario. Club business included updates on the MN Irish Music Weekend and the Fall Tionól. We’re hoping Martin Preshaw…

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Gen. Meeting this Sun. (07 Apr.), 3:00 pm @ The Celtic Junction

The first GNIPC meeting of Spring 2013 is fast upon us! Here’s Sunday’s agenda: 3:00 Club Business: Open Mic, Show & Tell, MIM 2013 3:10 Tunes 3:50 Break 4:00 Tune Lesson (TBD) by Patrick McCormick 4:30 Tunes, cont’d 5:00 Nominal ending time, but who am I kidding? Hope to see you on Sunday!

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New transcription: “The Dusty Miller” in A-major

As promised, Mick has posted a transcription of Tom Klein’s A-major version of “The Dusty Miller.” You can find it here (or on the Tunebook page). Deceptively simple, this version of the tune especially lends itself to practicing smooth octave-break transitions, high E’s in general, and as always “The Dusty Miller” is an excellent vehicle…

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