The tentative schedule for the weekend is now up on the website. This is shaping up to be another great year!
Rooms at Gavin’s are filling up fast. The registration crew will give priority for the few remaining rooms to attendees who are registered for piping or fiddling classes. However, we’ve had quite a few expressions of interest from folks who just want to hang out at Gavin’s and enjoy the weekend. So, if you are planning to take piping or fiddling classes and haven’t yet sent us at least your registration and deposit, please do so soon to help us ensure that you get to stay “on campus”. We need to hear from you!
We are pleased to report that two more well-known Irish musicians are coming to the tionol this year: piper Jimmy O’Brien Moran, and guitarist Ged Foley! Jimmy and Ged have graciously made themselves available to tionol attendees for private lessons. Contact information for both musicians will shortly be available on the website:
FYI, we’ve set up a blog for folks who are looking for a lift to the tionól or who can provide one; also if you’re looking for a roommate you can use the blog for that as well:
Double wow! JOBM , Mick O’Brien, Goff, Vallely, Quigley, D’Arcy and Koehler! This is going to be quite the weekend. I’m going, who else is going to be there? My only regret is that I won’t be able to make it to SoCal this year.
Don’t forget Cormac Cannon! He’s a brilliant young piper, perhaps not as widely known as the rest on the roster but that won’t be true for long. I’m also really psyched that both Patrick Ourceau and Breda Keville will be there as the fiddle instructors. It’s going to be awesome.
Yippee! I’ve sent in our registration. Now just to buy plane tickets (next paycheck, that). This is making a huge dent in the Jim Wenham Chanter Fund, but I can’t wait.
Well, at last count we had almost 60 piping students registered, so it should be a fair crowd. Perhaps instead of posting to C&F, everyone is diligently practicing to get in shape for piping classes. I know I am! Gotta shake off some of that rust…
You might also try the ride board on the website at
They were still alive when I left yesterday (and still playing!) … it was AWESOME. Kudos to KAD and Skip and St. Benedict and everyone else who put the NE Tionol together. It was the most wonderful music weekend I’ve ever been lucky enough to be part of; just magical. The teachers were grand, the concert was a religious experience, the venue was ideal and the people were just fantastic.
OK, I’m home to bed. Plane didn’t land 'til midnight last night, full day of wurk today. I’m shot!
I’ll miss being lulled to sleep and woken up again by all that wonderful piping, though. Amazing.
Yeah, what The Wilde One said! (a treat to meet you finally BTW)
A fantastically well-run event all together.
Great to meet so many musicians I had only heard or heard of before too. Legends in the flesh.
And yes, my piping underwent quite an overhaul but I hope to come out a better piper after all the woodshedding I now must do. Will my clean-triplet journey ever end?
Planning your next party or event? Invite The Canadians![/quick comments]
Yup, for me it’s not “Back To Square One;” it’s “Still At Square One, Maybe Forever.”
But brilliant stuff. All the teachers were fantastic, including our Mr. D’Arcy (even though he made me cry – OK, in reality I made myself cry; it just happened to be in his class). And Ivan Goff is now Professor Goff in my book. I shall be Jesuitical about tone in all my pursuits henceforth.
And ditto on the Canadians, EH! It was good to see Nico again.
And Mick O’Brien eats his eggs just like the rest of us (except for the bit of panicked mouth-froth I flung on them when I realized who I was sitting next to at breakfast).
BTW, if you need a clever, stylish, and incredibly handsome T-shirt design for your next piping event, tommyk’s yer maun.
– OK, in reality I made myself cry; it just happened to be in his class). And Ivan Goff is now Professor Goff in my book. I shall be Jesuitical about tone in all my pursuits henceforth.