9-11 March 2007
Tim Collins - concertina
Michael Cooney - uilleann pipes
Hilari Farrington - button box
Benedict Koehler - uilleann pipes
Siobhan Kelly - flute
Willie Kelly - fiddle
Joseph Smith - reed making
Soon to come - accompaniment
registration now open at:
http://www/southeastpipersclub.org
Okay, after discussion with other members of the SE pipers club this past weekend and via email leading up to it, the 2007 SE Tionol returns to its birthplace in Florida!!! I am taking it back on now that I am somewhat less fettered with an unapproving spouse (bitter, no!!! not me) and plans are in the works.
Final dates will be pinned down in the next couple of weeks, and the place will once again be in Gainesville, FL… close to too many family attractions and outdoorsy activities to mention at this time. Now that we are under original management (with hopefull tionol momma Kathleen on board) and madness, thorough plans, documentation, and registration packets will be more thorough and clear than ever before!
Plan ahead for the early spring… when you are snowed in up there in the cold white north, it will be perfect Irish Trad weather here with humidity around 60%, and temperatures to match in the low 70’s. Over the years, this has occurred in February at a privately owned school, so as soon as I pin down the available dates (and there are some) I will begin to book flights for instructors. I have been informally been talking to folks here and there over the past year or so about possibly coming down, so while final commitments are not yet made due to time, this has the making of the best year yet!!
Stay tuned for more announcements here, and feel free to email me at maze@ufl.edu for questions, thoughts, or especially early proclamations of interest. This year will be more of the scale of the expertly run SE Tionol of 2006 rather than the giant of past Florida Tionol years… so as enrollment picks up, more instructors will be added.
Thanks for your time!!! whoo hoo!!! and yes, Florida beat Tennessee by one point!!!