Come to Celtic Fest, Saturday, April 7, 2011, 10 am to 5 pm, At the Anchorage Senior Activity Center
Instructors
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Alaska Celtic Pipes & Drums are very active throughout South-Central Alaska, performing at parades, festivals, and civic and cultural events throughout the area. ACPD are a Grade IV competing, family-oriented Pipe & Drum Band, which always has a lot of FUN, and which provides free lessons in piping and drumming at their regular practices in Eagle River.
Matthew Cacy is a local martial arts instructor and student of history. He teaches classes in numerous martial arts through the municipality and has choreographed fight scenes and trained actors for the local Anchorage film industry.
Lisa Caress-Beu and Anne Freitag will be teaching a class on making fairy houses. Lisa Caress-Beu owns and operates Celtic Treasures, a retail Celtic import store in Anchorage, Alaska. She has loved faeries for many years. Anne Freitag is a librarian with an interest in history. She also designs and makes costumes, and does many other crafty things.
Charity Edwards is the manager of Tandy Leather. She is a leather artist who teaches classes weekly at Tandy Leather.
Irish Language Study Group. We have been studying together monthly since September 2011 to learn language and songs
Nancy Lee-Evans, PhD, is a connoisseur of Celtic Tradition and director of the Anam Cara Program that seeks to reconnect us with our ancestral heritage and way of being.
Benjamin James is a local sculptor, art historian and sketch artist who has made a study the ancient Celtic manuscript illumination as seen in the Book of Kells. His installations can be seen in Los Angeles, Seattle and Anchorage.
Denise Martin and Jim Kerr: Denise Martin is a concertina player, and Jim Kerr is a backup guitar player. They attend Irish sessions in Anchorage on a regular basis with many of the local regulars.
Philip Price is a native of Ireland who has been collecting and performing Irish folk songs for decades.
Amber Rose received a MSc in European archaeology from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She learned to Scottish country dance while studying in Scotland, joined the university Scottish country dance society and participated in competition and demonstration as a member of the society. She currently co-teaches the Scottish country dance class here in Anchorage that meets once a week.
Dixine Schiavi is the founder and director of Midnight Sun Cloggers. She has been clog dancing for over 30 years. Midnight Sun Cloggers is an all-female percussion & buck dance team that has been performing in Anchorage and other areas of Alaska since 1999.
Joanne Teague is a graphic designer who lives in Anchorage. She designs needlework kits, instructs and does commission beadwork. To view or purchase her work, visit thistledew4u.etsy.com .
John M. Walsh is a banjo and mandolin player and singer. He has performed all over the U.S., Ireland, and elsewhere. He has a very extensive knowledge of Irish music and its history.
Hunter Woofter has studied the bodhran with Suzy Perry Foley, formerly of Suzi’s Woollies, Gerard McDonnell, Irish-born Alaskan mountaineer, hero and bodhran player, Warren Casey of the band “Wicked Tinkers” and with Elaine McLean of the Scottish band “Rise”. He has been playing bodhran in an Irish pub band “Rogues & Wenches” since 2007, which will tour Ireland in March 2013.
Linda Yarborough An anthropologist/archaeologist with musical training, Linda grew up playing piano, branching out into folk instruments as a teenager. She has taught piano and has Suzuki training, and has taught harp since 1983. She teaches and performs a variety of musical styles, and particularly enjoys traditional Celtic music.