It’s a big week for our branch this week. On Wednesday or Thursday night our PRO, Eimear Cassidy will be in The Dome in Tralee, Co. Kerry, chatting to Dáithí Ó Sé in her bid to qualify for the televised final stages of the Rose of Tralee International Festival which take place next Monday and …
Huge congratulations to our Ulster Champions from the fleadh in Bangor at the weekend! Roise McCloy won both the U-12 tin whistle slow air and the U-12 flute slow air. She also came 2nd in the U-12 flute and, with Caoimhe O’Kane, was in the winning 12-15 Ceoltoiri Crosskeys ceili band. Caoimhe also played in …
Well done to everyone who went to take part in the Yew Tree Feis last week. Pictured are Ava McPeake who won the P4-P5 tin whistle and her sister Cora who received an award as the most promising musician at the feis. Other prizewinners included Annie Diamond (2nd) and Valentino Lupari (3rd) in the P1-P3 …
Belated congratulations to Jemma Shivers – she has only just discovered she was awarded 3rd place in the U-9 tin whistle competition at the Derry fleadh back in March! Well done, also, to all those who took part in recent feis competitions in Derry, Larne, Coalisland and Maghera – I don’t have complete results but …
Our final session of the season will be held in The Elk tomorrow night (Thursday, 5th May) at 7:30pm (junior) and 9:00pm (senior). We’re dedicating this session to the memory of our former chairman, Kevin Walls, who passed away last November, and we hope to have many of his old friends and family members in …
The 2016 Derry fleadh was held in The Loup/Ballyronan from 7th-10th April. Congratulations to our many prizewinners at Saturday’s competitions (full list below) and well done to everyone else from Newbridge CCE who participated and helped out with the large programme of events throughout the weekend including competitions, sessions, ceili and Irish night. Hopefully our younger musicians …
We won’t be having any classes this Saturday as the county fleadh competitions are being held throughout the day. Good luck to everyone taking part! The competition timetable and list of events is shown here – full programmes are available in many local shops in the area.
Classes resume this Saturday morning at Anahorish Primary School. Registration for the six week term is from 10:00am with classes at the usual times of 10:30am and 11:15am. There are places available in all our classes – tin whistle, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, concertina and bodhran – and all abilities are catered for. Cost for the …
This Saturday’s classes marks the end of our Spring term. We’ll be putting on another short term of 6 weeks after Easter – the dates will be announced in the next week or two. Before we break up for Easter, we’re holding a Big Trad Breakfast in The Elk on the morning of St. Patrick’s …
This year’s Derry Fleadh will take place in The Loup/Ballyronan from 8th-10th April, with the competitions being held in St. Patrick’s Primary School on Saturday, 9th April. In addition to group and solo instrumental and singing competitions at U-12, 12-15, 15-18 and O-18 age groups, there’s an U-9 tin whistle competition for younger players. A …