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May 31, 2025
CELTIC WORKSHOPS

Fiddle Workshop with Jenna Moynihan 
In this workshop, we'll learn a traditional tune by ear and explore the melody, bowing, rhythm, ornamentation, breathing life into the tune. Participants are encouraged to bring a recording device and their questions! 
 

DADGAD Guitar workshop with Owen Marshall
In this introduction to DADGAD tuning, you will learn new chord shapes, picking techniques and right hand rhythms. We will discuss different rhythms for songs,  jigs, and reels that will be new to most guitar players that have played in standard EADGBE guitar tuning. Over the course of this workshop, we will take a look into moving chord shapes and chord substitutions, while increasing your knowledge of the instrument.

Workshops will run concurrently from 10:30 am - 12:30 pm. They take place at the Monteverdi Music School, 46 Barre St., Montpelier. Cost is $35-$25 (sliding scale), pay at the door. Register in advance by contacting workshop coordinator Tracy Loysen at traloysen@gmail.com.

Jenna Moynihan is regarded as one of the best of the new generation of freestyle fiddlers. Versatile and inventive, her fiddling style draws strongly from the Scottish tradition, but is also influenced by American, Irish, and Swedish styles. Jenna has performed and taught around the world and has toured with The Milk Carton Kids, Old Blind Dogs, Breabach, and Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards. She has performed as a soloist with The Boston Pops, and appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and CBS Sunday Morning. In addition to her solo work, she currently performs with Seamus Egan Project, Hanneke Cassel Band, and in a duo with Màiri Chaimbeul. Jenna is also a dedicated teacher. She teaches at various camps and courses throughout the year, and is an Assistant Professor of Strings at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. 
Owen Marshall is “a guitar/mandolin/banjo player rivaled in character only by the occasional three-pronged carrot” (Vogue 2009). Over the past two decades, multi-instrumentalist Owen has emerged as one of the foremost accompanists of traditional music. Known for his fluid and spontaneous bouzouki work and driving and melodic guitar accompaniment, Owen has toured and recorded with the likes of the Seamus Egan Project, Copley Street, Dervish, Liz Carroll, Pine Tree Flyers, The Press Gang, and a Christmas Celtic Sojourn. 
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