Intermediate Irish Session Tunes

This class is for folks who have already taken the Beginner Irish Session Tunes class. We will continue to learn sets of jigs, reels and other tunes that you can expect to play in a typical Irish session. If you’re not sure which class is right for you, contact Miriam at [email protected].

This class pairs well with the Celtic Ensemble or the Swallow Hill Irish Jam.

Prerequisites: Beginner Irish Session Tunes, or some previous experience with playing Irish Session Tunes

Check out this video of the Irish Session Tunes class on a field trip to play at a local pub with other Irish Session players!

See this video for another example of an Irish session - we will be playing easier tunes than they are, but you can get a sense of what the style of the music is like.

Recommended Instruments: Fiddle, Flutes, Whistles, Accordions, Mandolin (Bouzoukis welcome!), Banjo, Uillean pipes; (View the current and needed instruments for all of our ensembles here.)

* Other instruments are welcome to join, but please talk to Miriam first by emailing [email protected]

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To support our teachers and better accommodate the needs of our classes, we ask that students register at least 48 hours in advance of the class, lesson, and/or workshop.

Cost includes $15 School support fee. Learn more about that fee here

Miriam Rosenblum

IRISH TIN WHISTLE, RECORDER

Miriam has been teaching recorder and Irish tin whistle in Denver since the late 1980s, both at Swallow Hill and in her home studio. In 2015 she started Colorado’s first Suzuki recorder studio. Miriam loves teaching and seeing the joy that playing music brings to her students’ lives. Her students have called her patient, encouraging, knowledgeable and fun! She has degrees in music (oboe performance) from Yale and from the University of New York at Stonybrook. Miriam currently plays klezmer clarinet in local bands The Lost Tribe and The Klez Dispensers, as well as recorder with the baroque quartet Semplice. You’ll also find her playing tin whistle in various Irish sessions around town. When she’s not playing music, Miriam loves to hang out with her grandkids and backpack in the beautiful mountains of Colorado.