July 12 & 13
Washtenaw Farm Council Fairgrounds
WORKSHOPS & SESSIONS
Michigan Celtic hosts a variety of music and dance workshops on Friday night and throughout the day on Saturday Festival weekend. Workshops include Tin Whistle, Sea Shanty Singing, Bodhran Drum, Fiddle, Step Dancing, Contra Dancing, Ceili Dance, and "Try An Instrument" Workshops. They're led by local experts in their fields, and are open to beginner through advanced-level participants! Try one or many, and bring your own instruments to learn more about how they work.
2024 Workshop Schedule
Friday Night:
Workshops will be in various locations around the festival beginning at 6:00pm - please plan to arrive at 5:45 P.M so you can get to your workshop on time!
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6:00 pm
Participatory Contra called by Maeve Devlin
Intermediate Fiddle - Devon Martene from Steel CityRovers - Bring your fiddle!
Sea Shanty Singing - Banjo Betsy & Friends
Ottawa Valley Step Dance - Moire Kosmalski
Beginning Tin Whistle - Tristan Pruss from Detroit IrishMusic Association (DIMA) - Whistles available for purchase
Bodhran Drum - Elizabeth Collins (DIMA) - Bring yourown drum or use our “pizza box” drum
7:00 pm
Ottawa Valley Step Dance Demonstration - Explorers Home School Dancers
7:15 pm
Sean Ceili Irish Dance Performance
7:30 pm
Participatory Ceili called by Liz Heinzman of Ardan Academy of Irish Dance
Session led by DIMA
Saturday: TBD
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Sessions: TBD
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We couldn't do it without them.
AACTMAD is the Ann Arbor Community for Traditional Music and Dance, a nonprofit participatory membership organization that enriches people's lives and sense of community through traditional music, dance, song, and related arts.
As a longtime supporter of the workshops offered at the festival, they have provided funding, advice, encouragement and many folks who share their passion and wisdom at the workshops.
The Detroit Irish Music Association (DIMA) is a non-profit organization, dedicated to preserving and promoting traditional Irish music and culture in Southeast Michigan. Since 2010, it has proudly been based at the Green Wood Center, on Ann Arbor's east side.
DIMA has long supported and nurtured the Workshops at the festival as well as several generations of traditional musicians in the Detroit area, going back to the 1970's.
Thank you!
