New! Discussion board on the web site: www.moceltic.org/board/

We've created a place for you to post concert reviews, suggest program ideas for CMCAA, and start discussion threads on any topic related to Celtic music, dance, languages, culture in Central Missouri. Use it to arrange carpools to concerts or discuss books and movies by Celtic authors.... be creative!  Connect with other Celtophiles!

CLASSES CLASSES CLASSES!

Traditional music is social music! Put a little music in your life by taking an Irish music or dance classes this spring!

Helen Gubbins, one of our 2003 summer artists-in-residence is returning February 23 to teach for two more months, so we have a full slate of classes on offer for March and April!  Folks who were off traveling last summer or will be gone this summer can take advantage of this lineup of great classes.  Learn a  new instrument or a new language! Learn more about how Irish music and Irish social history are intertwined.  Here's the full list:
Helen Gubbins: Beginning Button Accordion, Beg. Tin Whistle,  Traditional Music Accompaniment,  History of Irish Trad Music
Deirdre Harnedy:  Tin Whistle/Flute 2 & 3;  Fiddle 1, 2, 3 & 4; Irish Language 1 & 2
Christine Harker: Set Dance
Colleen Deisner: Step Dancing for kids age 5 - 12 
   Colleen performed on stage with the Chieftains in Jesse Aud in January.  We're very pleased to have her teaching step dancing here in Columbia now!

The class schedule and registration info is all on the web here: http://www.moceltic.org/march04/index.html

We have two button accordions and one piano accordion available for loan to beginning players.  Send us an e-mail if you are interested in trying accordion.

Classes in Kirksville
If there is enough interest,  Helen and Deirdre will teach tin whistle, accordion, fiddle and trad music accompaniment classes in Kirksville on Wednesday evenings from March 24 - April 14.  If you are interested, e-mail Christine Harker at charker@truman.edu

Summer is coming!
The search process is in progress for our 2004 summer artists-in-residence.  Once again we're planning to have Irish Arts Camp for ages 5-18, it will be the week of June 14 - 18 and weekly classes all summer.  It looks like we will be offering Irish Harp, sean nos singing and sean nos dance classes this summer, in addition to the topics we've had in the past.  Keep these opportunities in mind as you start planning for summer!

Song Circle Gets Started

A Celtic-themed song circle has started meeting in Columbia and needs more voices! If you like to sing and want to learn some Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Breton, Candian- and American-immigrant songs, please think about joining in.  The group will start meeting regularly in March.  If you're interested, send a note to Rhomylly Forbes:  RForbes@mem-ins.com

No commitment required, just enthusiasm!

Robert Burns Live! videos available

On Friday, January 23 Scottish actor Christopher Tait and Scottish musicians Alex and Carrie Sutherland performed in Columbia.  It was a wonderful evening of great music and Chris' dramatic recitations of Burns' work.
In case you are kicking yourself for missing that show, Chris Tait left several signed copies of his DVD, filmed at Burns' birthplace in Alloway, Scotland. They are available for purchase for $23.   Send me an e-mail if you want to get one.

OUT OF IRELAND Presentation, Sunday March 14
Dr.  Kerby Miller, MU History Dept.
7:00 p.m.,  MU Campus (exact location TBC) Music with Luck Penny at 6:30 p.m.
FREE EVENT

OUT OF IRELAND, a video documentary,  was directed by Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Paul Wagner and written by Kerby Miller, America’s leading scholar of Irish emigration. The film traces the story of the Irish from the famine-swept villages of 19th century Ireland to the industrialized cities of 20th century America.  OUT OF IRELAND personalizes this transatlantic history by focusing on the lives of eight specific immigrants, utilizing the actual letters they wrote home to Ireland describing their experiences in the New World.

OUT OF IRELAND has been broadcast on PBS and honored with presentations at the Sundance Film Festival, the Cork Film Festival, the Denver International Film Festival, and the Irish Film Festival presented by the Lincoln Center Film Society.  Film critic Sheila Benson, reviewing OUT OF IRELAND at the Sundance Festival, called it “a stunning experience.”

This presentation will consist of a showing of OUT OF IRELAND (approx 2 hour) followed by discussion and questions with Dr. Miller.

St. Louis Tionol coming up April 2 - 4
See www.tionol.org for details and registration form.

The St. Louis Tionol just keeps getting better and better! This year the roster of master instructors boasts some very auspicious names -- Tommy Peoples teaching fiddle,  Mary Bergin and John Skelton teaching whistle,  John Carty teaching banjo,  Paddy O'Brien teaching session playing... and the list goes on!  If you are an aspiring or experienced Irish musician but have never attended the Tionol, THIS is the year to try it! Get your registration in soon.

All the master instructors will play for the Saturday evening concert. Even if you aren't interested in taking workshops, the concert will definitely be worth the trip to St. Louis.

Mick Maloney's Irish-American Music and Dance Festival
March 25,  Lincoln University http://www.lincolnu.edu/~sita/
CMCAA WILL HAVE TICKETS FOR SALE AT THE FEBRUARY AND MARCH CEILIS IN COLUMBIA. Ticket price is only $12 for adults, $5 for high school students and younger.  
This show will certainly sell out.

Mick Maloney, musician, folklorist, performer and teacher, is a dynamo on wheels in the traditional music world. As a master of the Irish tenor banjo, he's influenced countless traditional musicians, but that's just the beginning. With a PhD in Irish folklore and a position as adjunct professor of Irish studies in the honors program at Villanova University, and director of the folklife center at International House in Philadelphia, his passion is teaching and sharing the folklore and music of Ireland through lectures, performances and writing. From initiating Irish Week at Augusta Heritage Center more than 20 years ago, to masterminding the Re-Imagining Ireland Conference this past May that included hundreds of musicians, scholars and politicians, Mick Maloney tirelessly works for the preservation and perpetuation of traditions in changing times.

For more info, read this great article about Mick from Dirty Linen folk music magazine http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/feature/48mick.html

March 25 will definitely be a "must see" show! Put it on your calendar!

CMCAA Concert Announcement:  John Carty and Ged Foley in Columbia
Thursday, April 1, 7:30 p.m., location TBA.
Watch for details on the web site!

Tea, biscuits, chocolate, butter, cheese and more!

World Harvest Foods, an international grocery store, opened for business in Columbia in January.   They stock a very large assortment of goods from Ireland, Scotland and England... as well as the rest of Europe, Asia, the Middle East, India... and just about anywhere else you can think of.  

If you're longing for the tea and biscuits you got hooked on during your travels, pay them a visit!  World Harvest is located at Nifong and Providence,  just west of Gerbes grocery store.

Regional and Local Celtic Events

Wow, there is a TON of stuff coming up.  Here are events for the next month. For a complete, and regularly updated listing, visit our calendar here:  http://www.moceltic.org/calendar.html

Friday, February 13 - CMCAA céilí 7:30 - 10 p.m.
   First Christian Church Fellowship Hall, Corner of Tenth and Walnut, downtown Columbia
   Come at 7:00 p.m. for beginners instruction.  $5 admission for adults, kids are admitted free. 

Saturday, February 14,  Kansas City Metro Artists Concert, presented by Missouri Valley Folklife Society,  8:00 pm, at the Community Christian Church, 4601 Main, KCMO. Featured bands will be Tullamore and the Bluegrass Brigade
Concert info: www.mvfs.org

Monday March 1,  CMCAA Spring Classes begin

Saturday March 6,  Irish Fest in  Cole Camp, Missouri. 10am until 5pm 
There will be a kids area, entertainment and food and drink. Fun for all. For more info, call Tara at 660-668-2736 or e-mail at donegalpeddler@earthlink.net
Luck Penny will be performing, as well as Beyond the Gael and the Truman Stat Univ. Ceili Club, and Christine Harker will be teaching set and ceili dancing.

Sunday, March 7, St. Louis: Irish singer  Tom Sweeney performs at The Radisson Hotel, 7750 Carondelet, Clayton, Mo. on Sunday March 7th at 6:30PM. Presented by The Irish Connection. For info:   email - clareann  AT earthlink DOT net (replace @ and .)  phone: 636-225-2204

Friday, March 12 - CMCAA céilí 7:30 - 10 p.m.
First Christian Church Fellowship Hall, Corner of Tenth and Walnut, downtown Columbia
   Come at 7:00 p.m. for beginners instruction.
  $5 admission for adults, kids are admitted free.  READ MORE

March 13, 8:00 p.m. - Lunasa at Missouri Valley Folklife Society, www.mvfs.org
Community Christian Church, 4601 Main Street KCMO (theater seating; free garage parking) $20; $17 MVFS members
One of the most sought-after bands on the international Irish music scene, Lunasa's inventive arrangements and bass-driven grooves are steering Irish acoustic music into surprising new territory.

The rest of the calendar:  http://www.moceltic.org/calendar.html

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