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As we do every year, the Great Northern Irish Pipers Club will perform at the IMDA Day of Irish Dance at Landmark Center this coming Sunday, March 16th. Our performance begins at 3:40 pm in the Tea Room (3rd floor courtroom). Hope to see you there!  

The Minneapolis Star Tribune article we’ve been talking about is now on the newsstands and online, and it’s terrific! Everyone who was at the March 2nd General Meeting was quoted, and the piece includes both video and photos. Special thanks to Tom Klein for reaching out to the local media — the timing of this article is…

Here’s the complete set list from this past Sunday’s General Meeting. Hope to see you next month! Jigs: Newport Lasses (aka Trip to Athlone) / Gander in the Pratie Hole Jig: When Sick is it Tea You Want? Jigs: Out on the Ocean / The Cordal (aka Julia Clifford’s Jig) / Blarney Pilgrim / Jimmy…

The past week has been a good one, with a sold-out seminar by Martino Vacca from Fullset (special thanks to the CIM for presenting this event!) and a well-attended General Meeting that was covered by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, for a feature story that’s scheduled to run on 3/15/2014. Here are several pictures from Martino’s…

The next General Meeting of the Great Northern Irish Pipers Club will take place this coming Sunday 02 March 2014, from 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm at The Celtic Junction, 836 Prior Ave. N., St. Paul. Agenda: 3:00 Club business: Welcome to the press; Dues; Tune Refresh Project 3:15 Tunes 4:00 Break 4:10 Hardware talk:…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…