The Outstanding performance of Nic Gareiss and Caoimhín ó Raghallaigh at Féile na Laoch 2011 in Cúil Aodha.
Nic Gareiss has studied a broad variety of percussive movement forms from around the world. At age eight he began taking tap lessons with Sam Williams at Vision Studio of Performing Arts in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Soon after, he was exposed to fiddle music and traditional dance at the Wheatland Music Organization's annual Traditional Arts Weekend. It was there that he had his first instruction in Appalachian clogging with Michigan dance mentor, Sheila Graziano. As a teenager, Nic also studied Irish step dance with John Heinzman, T.C.R.G., Appalachian flat-footing with Ira Bernstein, English clog-dancing with Sheila Graziano, Québécois step dance with Benoit Bourque and improvisation and composition with Sandy Silva.
Nic has taught workshops in percussive dance techniques, American clogging, musicality and improvisation internationally. For several years, he has had the pleasure of teaching at Alasdair Fraser's Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddle Camp in northern California, as well as for Scottish Culture & Traditions Organization and the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention in Aberdeen, Scotland. Through workshops Nic seeks to remind musicians of the crucial, intrinsic and historic place that percussive dance has held in the formation and development of fiddle traditions as well as reminding dancers of the innate musical capabilities of movement and the social responsibility they hold in maintaining fiddle and dance symbiosis.
Nic holds degrees in anthropology and music from Central Michigan University and is pursuing post-graduate work in ethnochoreology at the University of Limerick.
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh is a fiddler, born in Dublin, Ireland. He is known for developing a drone-based fiddle style heavily influenced by the uilleann pipes and the music of Sliabh Luachra. Ó Raghallaigh spent several summers working part- and full-time in the Irish Traditional Music Archives in Dublin, opening up a wealth of old recordings which influenced his repertoire and style. Together with uilleann piper Mick O'Brien, he recorded Kitty Lie Over, named No.1 Traditional Album of 2003 by Earle Hitchner in the Irish Echo. He performs regularly with West Kerry accordion player Brendan Begley, and has collaborated many times with sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird. He has also performed with Icelandic group Amiina, Sam Amidon, The Waterboys among others. He is a member of two contemporary traditional music groups: The Gloaming (with Martin Hayes, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Dennis Cahill and Thomas Bartlett) and This Is How We Fly (with Petter Berndalen, Nic Gareiss and Seán Mac Erlaine). He has also worked in theatre, having been commissioned by the Abbey Theatre to write music, and works regularly with Gare St Lazare Players.
Caoimhín plays an old trade German fiddle which he keeps tuned down four or five semitones below concert pitch, a hardanger fiddle, a 5-string viola made by David Rivinus as well as a number of other fiddles. He uses many crosstunings or scordatura, and often plays with a baroque bow made by Michel Jamonneau. Caoimhín also plays tin whistle, flute and uilleann pipes, having been taught whistle and flute by Michael Tubridy, of The Chieftains and Ceoltóirí Chualann fame.
Ceamaraí: Maidhcí Ó Suilleabhain, Seamus Ó Suilleabhain, Tomás Ó hAodha, Breandan O'Ceallachain agus Donal O'Ceilleachair.
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Clifftop 2011 - Flatfoot Dance Competitionby fltftdncr5,189 views
the closest I've seen to pure rapport between musician, instrument, tune dancer and dance - magic. Timmy "the brit"
naciotogi 5 months ago
Nice! Very Very Nice!
krassiwe 6 months ago
such a soft tune and dance. wonderful.
bettekorber 6 months ago
Walking back to the field at 2:30am and coming across this was really pretty amazing.
Oriada97215 6 months ago