Posts by Mick Bauer

This past-Sunday’s General Meeting was fun and enlightening in equal measure! Here are some notes: 1. Club Business General Meeting attendance is up sharply over this time last year. And we’ve room for plenty more! Tom K. has confirmed that GNIPC members receive a 5% discount when registering for the Center for Irish Music’s Minnesota…

Come to the General Meeting this coming Sunday March 3rd, 3:00 – 5:00 pm at The Celtic Junction! This month Tom Klein will give a Demonstration: “Playing in A and what that brings to your piping” This involves shifting well-known non-A tunes into “flute A” (few if any G#s, as apposed to “fiddle A” which…

Those of us who skipped pre-Super-Bowl parties this past Sunday, Febr. 3 at 3:00 pm enjoyed another tuneful and informative GNIPC General Meeting. After a brief update on club business, we played tunes including  “Eagle’s Whistle,” “Drops of Brandy,” “The Leitrim Quickstep,” and “Saddle the Pony.” The second half was mostly taken up by learning…

Our next general meeting will take place 3:00 pm this Sunday 03 February 2013 at The Celtic Junction. Mick will teach the tune “Garret Barry’s Mazurka,” the sheet music for which is available on the Tunebook page. (Mick transcribed and learned it from Willie Clancy’s recorded version on the RTE CD “The Gold Ring.”) Agenda:…