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Dive deep into learning Irish music during 90 minute workshops with fiddler Danny Diamond and guitar/bouzouki accompanist Brian Miller! These will be geared towards intermediate/advanced students, but those with less experience can still register to sit in on the class.
Danny Diamond is a Minneapolis-based Irish traditional / folk fiddle player, recording engineer and music researcher. Danny performs in a duo with multi-instrumentalist and singer Brian Miller, teaches with the Center for Irish Music in St Paul, Minnesota, and works as a consultant with local, regional and international Irish cultural heritage organizations.
Previously, Danny co-founded the influential Irish traditional band Mórga and the Nordic-Irish indie-folk trio Slow Moving Clouds. He toured internationally with acclaimed Irish dance theatre company Teac Damsa and worked for a decade with the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin, Ireland, where he recorded the debut album by world-renowned band Lankum.
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Brian Miller’s deep involvement with Irish music began when he was a high-schooler in Bemidji, Minnesota in the 1990s. He toured nationally for 14 years with the band Bua and performs now with Danny Diamond, the Lost Forty and Two Tap Trio. He has taught at the Center for Irish Music in St Paul, Minnesota since 2006 and at music camps and workshops around the US and Canada. Brian directs the Eoin McKiernan Library at Celtic Junction Arts Center. His research into Irish music in the Great Lakes region has earned him several grants and a Parsons Award from the American Folklife Center.
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