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9.30am – Panel 4 – HISTORICAL CONTINUITIES AND CHANGE
Mick Brown (Independent scholar)
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- Traditional Music of Southwest Donegal: Context, Provenance and Continuity
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Rosa Michaelson (University of St. Andrews)
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- Kerr’s Merry Melodies: change and continuity in industrial Glasgow
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Dr Patricia Ballantyne (Independent scholar), Dr Mats Melin (Irish World Academy at UL)
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- Seann Triubhas or Shean Trews: Popular Scottish dance culture and its relationship with Scottish Gaelic culture and language.
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11.30am – Panel 5 – PRACTICE AS RESEARCH
Marta Cook (Independent scholar)
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- Jenny Picking Cockles: Performance-Based Research on the Irish Harp
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Gaila Kirdienė (Vytautas Magnus University)
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- Traditional Fiddling Practice as Research: the Lithuanian Approach
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Claire Egan (Irish World Academy at UL)
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- The Art of Musical Gesture: A case study in the collaborative interactions between and Irish traditional fiddle player and an Irish traditional dancer
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11.30am – Panel 6 – REGIONS
Sophie Lavoie (Independent scholar)
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- Fiddlers of Saguenay (Quebec): The Art of Finding Originality on Common Ground
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Bridget O’Connell (Waterford Institute of Technology)
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- Fiddle Style Versus Fiddle Sound: Observing Newfoundland Fiddle Playing in the 21st Century.
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Karin L. Eriksson (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
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- Aural/Oral transmission – prerequisite for defining “folk music”?
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1:00 – 1:45
Tara Breen (fiddle), Derek Hickey (button accordion), Róisín Ní Ghallóglaigh (song) and Ciara Callanan-Ryan (dance and harp/whistle).
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3:15 – 5:15pm
Laura Risk – Fiddling from Quebec and the Gaspé – Advanced
Sven Ahlbeck – Swedish Fiddle
Ann Ledermann – Mountain Fiddle Tunings – advanced
Ranóg Townsend (dance) – Introduction to Sean Nós Dancing
5:30 – 6:30pm
John Carty and Claire Egan will be interview by Niall Keegan about traditional Irish Music in London and the influence of Ciare fiddler Brendan Mulkere.
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8:00pm – 9:00pm
In Memory of Brendan Mulkere with John Carty, Matt Griffin and Claire and Sinead Egan.
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