More Tunes in 4/4 - Irish Music w/ Eimear Arkins

$85.00

Join Eimear Arkins for an exploration into Irish music. This three week series will give you an overview of some of the lesser know (but still very popular!) Irish tune types. Bring your instrument and - if it helps you learn - a recording device (cellphone) or a notebook and pencil. 

Marches, barndances, hornpipes, flings, highlands, strathspeys... the list goes on! There are lots of different tunes in the Irish repertoire that are in 4/4 time besides reels, the most common tune type. In this series, we will look at three of these types of tunes: marches, barndances and hornpipes. We will learn one of these tune types in each class and discuss the distinctive rhythm that each one has despite sharing the same time signature. 

Dates: Oct 18th, 25th and Nov 1st

Beginner Class - 10am-11am *For this class we recommend being comfortable playing in the keys of G and D

Intermediate Class - 11:30am-12:30pm *For this class we recommend being familiar with a few Irish tunes and being able to play them at a medium to fast tempo

Location: St. Louis String Collective; 3530 Greenwood Blvd

Registration closes Saturday, October 11th

We will be filming each class and the videos will be made available to participants at the end of the session. 

Join Eimear Arkins for an exploration into Irish music. This three week series will give you an overview of some of the lesser know (but still very popular!) Irish tune types. Bring your instrument and - if it helps you learn - a recording device (cellphone) or a notebook and pencil. 

Marches, barndances, hornpipes, flings, highlands, strathspeys... the list goes on! There are lots of different tunes in the Irish repertoire that are in 4/4 time besides reels, the most common tune type. In this series, we will look at three of these types of tunes: marches, barndances and hornpipes. We will learn one of these tune types in each class and discuss the distinctive rhythm that each one has despite sharing the same time signature. 

Dates: Oct 18th, 25th and Nov 1st

Beginner Class - 10am-11am *For this class we recommend being comfortable playing in the keys of G and D

Intermediate Class - 11:30am-12:30pm *For this class we recommend being familiar with a few Irish tunes and being able to play them at a medium to fast tempo

Location: St. Louis String Collective; 3530 Greenwood Blvd

Registration closes Saturday, October 11th

We will be filming each class and the videos will be made available to participants at the end of the session. 

Eimear Arkins comes from a small village on the west coast of Ireland called Ruan, in County Clare. She is an award winning musician, singer and dancer with eleven Irish music world championship titles to her credit. Eimear has toured extensively with the international music organization Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann on concert tours throughout Ireland, Britain, North America and Canada.  Eimear has toured throughout the US and Ireland with The Paul Brock Band, Cherish the Ladies, Tomaseen Foley’s A Celtic Christmas and is regularly seen performing with harp player and St Louis native, Eileen Gannon. Eimear is a qualified Irish music and dance instructor. She has performed and given workshops at festivals all over the world including Féile Séamus Creagh, Newfoundland; Catskills Irish Arts Week; Viljandi Pärimusmuusika Festival, Estonia; St Louis Tionól; Canadian Celtic Celebration, and Festival Interceltique de Lorient, France. In June 2018 she released her debut album, What’s Next? and was awarded “Best Newcomer” from LiveIreland in 2019. In January 2020, Eimear was awarded an Artist Fellowship from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis.