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Residency activities can be done with Road to the Isles as an ensemble or
with its individual members, and include school concert performances, workshops,
and beginner to master classes, followed by an evening concert.
The most usual residency includes an Irish Step Dancing workshop conducted by
master teacher Mary Conroy during the afternoon of or
morning after a Road to the Isles' evening concert. Mary
Conroy has been teaching Irish Step Dancing for more than 15 years at the
Burke School of Irish Dance in Pittsburgh, and several of her students have won
top prizes at the World Championships in Dublin. Her workshops can include large
numbers of participants from youths to seniors, and she brings her own music for
the workouts. She covers a wide range of fundamental Irish dance steps and
instructs students on putting them together with music during the session.
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 School concerts are normally for children in grades K-8.Children and school
performances are performed by Wind that Shakes the Barley, consisting of piper
George Balderose with an Irish and a Scottish
dancer who perform a wide variety of championship-quality dances and give the
students information about their origin and the symbolism of the steps and dance
patterns, as well as the costumes worn.
George Balderose plays several different types
of bagpipes, some mouth-blown and some bellows-blown, some loud and some soft.
He can play each of these to students, illustrating differences in pitch,
volume, and timbre, and demonstrating how differences in sound come from
different bagpipes. For the elementary school show, students are encouraged to
sing familiar children’s songs with the smallpipes.
Press Kit for Wind that Shakes the Barley
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settings, you may need to right-click these links, and select the "Save
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Read the printable template online
or download it in:
 Microsoft Word format.
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Program Support Materials
Residency Activities - Download in Microsoft Word format.
The Wind that Shakes the Barley - School Performance Repertoire
Download in Microsoft Word format.
The Wind that Shakes the Barley - A
Teaching supplement from Celtic Fest, Inc.
Download it here in Adobe Acrobat format.
Learn about Scottish and Irish Bagpipes and their traditional Music with the artist George Balderose. Download it here in Adobe Acrobat format.
 This project is partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by the Vira I. Heinz Endowment; the William Penn Foundation; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the Pew Charitable Trusts; and administered by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
Funding for concert performances and workshops by Road to the Isles is
available to non-profit presenters throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. For
more information contact PennPat at (www.pennpat.org)
(215)496-9424, or
Music Tree at () (412) 323-2707.
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