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Ballymena Festival 2020

Congratulations to all our competitors at Ballymena Festival on 22nd February. We had almost 30 youngsters take part and, as well as having several prizewinners in solo competitions, our groups won both the Primary School Age and Secondary School Age group competitions against some very stiff opposition. Both groups played fantastically well on the day …

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February 2020 Update

We had another hugely successful set of sessions on Thursday, 6th February, with large numbers of musicians at each of our junior, slow and senior sessions – a short clip from the senior session can be viewed below. Classes are taking a mid term break as our groups prepare for Ballymena Festival on 22nd February …

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December 2019 News

Our activities for 2019 were concluded on Saturday night, 14th December, when a group of about 15 of our musicians provided the music for the vigil Mass in Newbridge chapel. Earlier in the day, we had our final class of the year where we had a short session for our pupils in Anahorish Primary School …

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November 2019 Update

We had great turnouts and fantastic music at all three of our sessions on Thursday, 7th November. Pictured below are the musicians at the slow session in the Creagh Suite, while we had similar numbers attending the junior and senior sessions downstairs. Classes resume on Saturday, 9th November, in Anahorish Primary School and continue until …

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October 2019 News

Thanks to everybody who came along to our October sessions. We had three great, well attended sessions with some new faces and lovely music throughout the evening. We also took the opportunity to mark Ellie Conway’s recent All-Ireland success with a small presentation on behalf of the branch. Our next sessions will be on Thursday, …

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Classes – Autumn Term 2019

Our weekly music classes resume on Saturday, 14th September, in Anahorish Primary School. Registration for the classes will take place in the school on Saturday, 7th September, between 10:30am and 11:30am. It’s important that anyone hoping to attend our classes (including returning pupils) comes along to the registration morning to both guarantee their place and to …

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Fleadh Season 2019

We had another hugely successful fleadh season this year, with multiple Ulster champions and an All-Ireland winner in Ellie Conway who won the 12-15 whistle competition at Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann in Drogheda. At the Ulster Fleadh in Castlewellan at the end of July, Roise McCloy qualified for the All-Ireland in three different competitions, playing …

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May 2019 Update

  Congratulations and well done to all our members who have been taking part in competitions over the past few weekends. At the Antrim Fleadh in Dunloy on 11/12 May we had several prizewinners including Brian Magee who won the 12-15 accordion and his sisters Siobhan and Roisin who came second in U-12 concertina and …

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Ceili House 2019

A couple of our younger members had the privilege of taking part in RTE Radio’s Ceili House programme recently. The recording took place on 23rd March in St. Brigid’s School in Derry and was aired on Saturday, 27th April. Caitriona Lagan was asked to play in the ‘House Band’, while Caoimhe O’Kane was invited to …

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End of Term Session

Music classes have now finished until the autumn. Our final class of this term was held on Saturday, 13th April, and took the form of a short session where all our classes came together to play for their families and friends. Our thanks to the staff at Anahorish Primary School for facilitating our classes, to all the …

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