Sunday Traditional Irish Music: Childrens Classes by Karen Ryan
Kennedy Hall Community
16/03/2025 2:00pm , 23/03/2025 2:00pm , 30/03/2025 2:00pm , 06/04/2025 2:00pm , 13/04/2025 2:00pm , 20/04/2025 2:00pm , 27/04/2025 2:00pm , 04/05/2025 2:00pm
Date: Sunday afternoons
Time: slots available across the day
How to book:
To book a class please contact Karen at: [email protected]
What is it?
Traditional
Irish Music Classes for children up to young adults – mixed instrument groups
and instrumental tuition on a number of instruments.
Traditional
Irish Music Classes for children up to young adults are held on Sundays during term time.
These classes are taught by Karen Ryan who has been teaching at the
London Irish Centre for almost 30 years, and her colleagues.
Instruments
taught include: fiddle, whistle, banjo, mandolin, uilleann pipes, flute,
melodeon, accordion, concertina, harp.
Instrumental
tuition and mixed instrument group class settings offered.
About Karen Ryan
A musician, teacher and promoter, it would be no exaggeration to say that Karen Ryan lives and breathes traditional Irish music. Born in London to Galway and Mayo parents, it was a strong Connemara tradition of melodeon players and traditional singers on her mother's side that initially fired her love of the music. As a founder member of the renowned traditional Irish six-piece, The London Lasses and Pete Quinn, Karen has performed at some of the world's most prestigious festivals and concert halls, including Dublin City Hall, Ballyshannon, Cambridge Folk Festival, the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Ennis Trad Festival, Glastonbury, Philadelphia Irish Festival and the Royal Albert Hall, where the band performed the first ever BBC Proms Céilí in 2008 and supported The Chieftains on their 50th Anniversary tour. The band have recorded five albums to date.
Whether as a teacher with Meitheal Cheoil in north London, a workshop leader or an adjudicator both in the UK and overseas, Karen continues to pass on the tradition to both young and old.
