If you’re stuck in the US-ian Midwest and have no money to go to Ireland, maybe this will be suitable for you:
http://www.boxwood.org/winter_infofaculty.htm
Jan 23-25, 2004.
Frank Claudy will be there teaching whistle, Chris Norman flute, Rod Cameron flute making, Christopher Krueger traverso.
I’ll be there. If anybody else here’s going and would like to meet me, please send me a PM.
glauber
Just FYI, Frank Claudy is a great player and teacher and all around nice guy. I’d love to have a chance to take more lessons from him.
His postings to the wooden flute email list are jam packed with useful information.
Eddie
Cool, i haven’t seen him in WOODENFLUTE for a while, though. Now that you mention it, i remember him there. I think any one of these guys would be worth the trip. The greatest problem will be choosing which classes to attend.
g
I went to Boxwood a couple of summers ago and had a wonderful time!
By the way, Rod Cameron will be discussing flutemaking and will have flutes for people to try; he will not be teaching flutemaking.
Enjoy!
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I just heard that it was cancelled due to low enrollment… 
ouch
Big bummer. 
Hmm, big surprise, not enough people want to go to Wisconsin in the middle of winter… How cold is it there right now, about 10 below?
Schedule that thing in Florida and I bet you’d have enough people signing up.
Loren
Make it Texas or Louisiana! Florida’s still a bit of a drive.
I went to Boston last Feb a week after the big blizzard. That cured any desire I had of moving north. Brrrrr.
Eddie
Yeah, the lows here in Boston were below zero last night, and even during the day it’s below zero with the wind chill - really ugly when you have to be outside 
I haven’t been so damn cold since I travelled to Alaska.
I say Florida because, even though it’s at the end of the damn country, you’ve got Disney and your theme parks, which make it much easier to convince the spouse and kids this will be a good place to go for the winter vacation. Try convincing the them that going to Houston or Dallas will be fun!
Loren
I did think the advertising was a little confusing,
because two events were combined, I think,
one of them open only for alumni of an earlier
event, apparently. Still I was thinking of going,
after reading Glauber’s post.
Yeah, for whatever reason, they decided to do their event in conexion with a Scottish studies event of the University. I think really the University’s event was what had the low enrollment, so in the end they may have shot themselves on the foot.
I still haven’t got anything from Boxwood itself, so i’ll call them today, but i got a phone call from the University yesterday saying that it’s cancelled and they’re refunding the money, so it’s probably dead.
g
Quick update, i got an email from Chris Norman yesterday, and he confirms that it’s cancelled. He adds that the University did a poor job of promoting the event, and it was also the University that cancelled it.