Augusta Irish Week

Uilleann Pipes
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Hey everyone, I’m Dan, the artistic director of the the Augusta Irish Week in Elkins WV this July, and I’m sorry to intrude into your forum but I wanted to let the pipers know that Augusta will have kind of a piping “thing” going on this summer and I thought the pipers on this board might be interested in hearing about it.

The first thing to know is that Cillian Vallely will be teaching pipes at Augusta this summer. However, other members of the staff are accomplished pipers, including Brian Holleran, (teaching flute), Joey Abarta (teaching whistle) and Ivan Goff (again, teaching flute). All of these guys are really great and may be familiar names to many of you. Augusta 2012 wasn’t really designed as a piping tionól, but with so much uilleann firepower on staff I’m not sure how any piper who comes wouldn’t catch a kind of “tionól” vibe.

Yes, I’ve posted the week in the events forum, but the piping element isn’t really all that obvious if you’re not looking for it, so again, just letting you know – hope it’s alright I posted here!

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Sounds Awesome. it wasn’t on my list of events for the summer, but i may have to reconsider!
Arbo

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Thanks for that! Also, having been several times in the past, I can say that Augusta is a very pleasant week; intimate without being claustraphobic. Just be sure to get to the ice cream early at dinner. :wink:

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Yeah! The student/teacher ratio is very favorable, people are great, and everything’s spread out on campus but it’s all very walkable. Plus, lots of pipers. I can’t wait!

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Now all you need is Pat D’Arcy teaching bodhrán :smiling_imp:

-No E

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Ooh… Gutting, gutting. However, having said that, how’s the weather in Augusta that time of year? :thumbsup:

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Oh, yeah, everyone says it’s just like San Diego in the spring (give or take a few degrees), with more mountains, fewer cars and no ocean. Great piping weather, at any rate! :sunglasses:

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:slight_smile:

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(Wow, that’s a pretty awesome photo!)

Okay, fine maybe not “more” mountains. But you’re in some mountains: