We’re happy to report larger than ever numbers attending our Saturday morning classes with the successful addition of harp and piano accompaniment to our offering. Our first monthly sessions of the new season will be held in The Elk this Thursday evening, 6th October. There’ll be a junior/slow session from 7:30pm and the senior session …
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Classes – Autumn Term 2016
We’re holding a registration/information morning in The Elk on Saturday, 10th September from 10:00-12:00 ahead of our classes which will resume in Anahorish Primary School the following Saturday, 17th September. The Autumn term will consist of 12 weeks of classes from 17th September until 17th December, with a break for Halloween on 29th October and …
Fleadh Ceoil na hEireann 2016
One medal to report from this year’s Fleadh Ceoil na hEireann in Ennis – Hugh Mulholland, our secretary and banjo/mandolin/bodhran tutor, was awarded second place in the O-18 mandolin competition. Many congratulations to Hugh and, indeed, to all our other competitors at the fleadh. Although the weather wasn’t what we’d hoped for, it was a …
Rose of Tralee and All-Ireland Fleadh
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 …
Ulster Fleadh 2016
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 …
Yew Tree Feis 2016
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 …
End of Term 2016
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 …
May 2016 Update
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 …
Derry Fleadh 2016 Report
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 …
Fleadh Cheoil Dhoire 2016
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.