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Ryan G. Duns, SJ
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My name is Ryan Duns, SJ and I am a member of the Society of Jesus [www.jesuit.org] (I am a seminarian studying to be a Catholic priest). I am currently teaching a course entitled "Intro to the Irish Tin Whistle" at Fordham University.
I maintain a blog where I post many of the tunes that I teach in my videos. If you wish to download them, go to: www.tinwhistler.blogspot.com
I look at teaching music as a form of evangelization. As as my heart has been moved by the gospel, so too has it been moved by Irish music. As I have found a voice to testify to the Good News through years of prayer and study, so also have I found a voice in the tradition of Irish music through years of practice.
The goal of these lessons isn't to teach you neat tin whistle tricks. It is to help you carve out your own space in a much larger tradition, to claim a voice through which you can express yourself and add to the rich fabric of the tradition.
I maintain a blog where I post many of the tunes that I teach in my videos. If you wish to download them, go to: www.tinwhistler.blogspot.com
I look at teaching music as a form of evangelization. As as my heart has been moved by the gospel, so too has it been moved by Irish music. As I have found a voice to testify to the Good News through years of prayer and study, so also have I found a voice in the tradition of Irish music through years of practice.
The goal of these lessons isn't to teach you neat tin whistle tricks. It is to help you carve out your own space in a much larger tradition, to claim a voice through which you can express yourself and add to the rich fabric of the tradition.
About Me:
I generally play Pat O'Riordan Whistles (the silver ones are modified with an O'Riordan top, the black ones are regular O'Riordans)
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Influences:
Joanie Madden, Mary Bergin, Vinnie Kilduff
Hometown:
www.tinwhistler.blogspot.com
Country:
United States
Occupation:
Seminarian
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Roman Catholic Church
Schools:
Saint Ignatius High School, Canisius College, John Carroll University, Fordham University, University of Detroit Jesuit High School
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Greetings from Germany!
WOT
I ordered my first tin whistle yesterday. I think it will be here Friday or Saturday, I hope. I am excited about this but am also a little nervous. I bought "Feadog Irish Pro 'D' Tinwhistle" - Nickel Key of D. I will start with lesson 1 with you as soon as I get it. I wish my Grandma Russell (maiden name Garrett) was still around she would be excited as well. I told my Gandma Shanahan but she is 98 and not as clear as she once was but still knows when it's St. Patrick's Day! Any way thank you for sharing your gift and I am going to look around Youtube for more Tin whistlers.
Matt
Matt
Beautiful music comes from it!!! Thanks for the inspiration.