This video was recorded on March 19, 2010 at the 171 Cedar Arts Center in Corning, NY. 171 Cedar has had an outstanding Irish band (including Lúnasa in 2009) each St. Patrick's Day of the past several years, and we were honored to have been invited to perform there in 2010. It was a truly amazing night, and it was possibly this band's best performance ever. It was certainly one of our most memorable. John Manfredi, 171's excellent sound engineer, routed our microphones through an Alesis ADAT recorder on their way to the speakers. Even though we had up nine people performing more than a dozen different instruments, John managed to get eight isolated tracks recorded for each song. When we got back to ERHS, I imported the tracks into ProTools, and whenever I get a spare moment, I work a little bit on these. The hope is to eventually have a live album. Some of the tracks are done (or are at least as good as I can get them). I am occasionally syncing the edited audio with the video, and posting it to YouTube. There are occasionally moments where the audio and video appear very slightly out of sync with each other. This is due to very minor differences in the "clocks" in the audio and video recordings.
The video currently showing on our homepage is a set of three Scottish tunes: The Balquidder Lasses; Hey, Johnnie Cope (Are Ye Wauken Yet?); and Sleepy Maggie. Sleepy Maggie is just a great tune. It's just a bunch of notes played really, really fast, and you can't help but feel it. (My apologies to Brian Conway.) I learned the first two tunes when I was just a wee lad, spending eight wonderful years in the 1st Michigan Colonial Fife and Drum Corps (this is also where we got The Drunken Piper). Johnnie Cope is a rousing and fascinating song about the Battle of Prestonpans, fought in 1745 between Scottish Jacobites who were following Bonnie Prince Charlie and the British (and Scots loyal to England). The almost-certainly-embellished history conveyed by the song is that Sir John Cope, the British commander, sent a series of letters to Bonnie Prince Charlie challenging him to a fight. The Jacobites surprised the British, attacking them at dawn while they were still in bed... which is why the song asks "Are ye wauken (awake) yet?" The Jacobites carried the day, and legend has it that Cope ran all the way to Berwick and tearfully delivered the news of this terrible defeat himself.
Celtic Music Society is a unique program comprised of student musicians from East Rochester Senior and Junior High Schools in East Rochester, New York. Founded in the fall of 2001, this group of young musicians performs the traditional music of Ireland in authentic traditional and contemporary styles. In our first eight years, we have performed more than 160 times, released three albums, hosted seven workshops by All-Ireland Champion musicians, and shared the stage with some of the top Irish musicians from our region and the world, including two concerts each by Irish supergroups Lúnasa, Gráda, and Teada. Director Mark Gowman and students in Celtic Music Society frequently present workshops to students, teachers, and college music education majors, and have presented several at the Eastman School of Music and the New York State School Music Association's annual conference. Celtic Music Society was one of only four student ensembles from the United States invited to perform at the National Music Student Leadership Conference in Salt Lake City, where we also presented a workshop for more than 100 teachers at the corresponding Music Educators National Conference. more
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