Artist Series and Travel & Tour Workshops
Iowa Irish Fest 2022
The Artist Series and Travel & Tour Workshops will be held in the historic Blacks Building and are free for fest goers with purchase of Iowa Irish Fest weekend passes. Seating is limited.
**Please Note** This is a tentative list of Artist Series and Travel and Tour Workshops for the 2022 Iowa Irish Fest, please check back at a later date for a complete list of dates and times with further descriptions of the Workshops Iowa Irish Fest will be bringing to fest goers this year.
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Aoife Scott & Andy Meaney
- Dublin Song Workshop with Aoife Scott
Learn songs from the streets of Dublin
and take a trip around Dublin through song with Aoife Scott and Andy Meaney. - Guitar Workshop with Andy Meaney
Bring your own guitar.
Boxing Banjo
- Intermediate Bodhrán Drum with Joseph McNulty & Darragh Healy
Bring your own drum. - Group Trad Session Music Workshop
Brother Crowe
- 5 String Claw Hammer Banjo
Bring your own banjo or enjoy a demonstration of this instrument. - Irish Song Writing
Participants will help write an Irish song and Brother Crowe will perform the song on stage later in the weekend.
Dan Vaughn
- Tin Whistle – Beginner/Children
Tin whistle will be provided to the first 50 participants.
- Tin Whistle – Intermediate/Adult
Tin whistle will be provided to the first 50 participants.
The Friel Sisters
- Uilleann Pipe Demonstration
- Two-Hand Dances from Donegal
Ian Gould
- Beginner Bodhrán Drum
- Musical Journey Through Ireland slideshow & travelogue.
Ian Gould will take the audience on a journey from Dublin to Belfast.
With songs, history, trivia from the towns and cities along the way. - Celtic Cinderella – children’s storytime
Rang Gaeilge San Cedar Valley
- Irish Language – Beginner
The Logues
- A History of Irish Literature within Irish Music
How Irish writers, playwrights and poets were influenced by traditional Irish music and
how Irish Literature influenced later Irish music and musicians. - The Accidental History of the Logues – Storytelling
Peadar Hickey
- Irish Songs of Resistance and Remembrance
- Irish Language – Children & Beginners
- Guitar in Traditional Irish Music
Bring your own guitar.
Scythian
- Fiddle Workshop with Alex Fedoryka – “Carpathian Tunes – Ukrainian Fiddle Workshop”
Bring your own fiddle
Shane Hennessy
- Advanced Guitar Demonstration
- Guitar Workshop for Beginners
Bring your own guitar.
Socks in the Frying Pan
Trinity Irish Dancers
- Dance Workshop
Online registration is no longer available
PLEASE INQUIRE ABOUT OPEN SPOTS AT THE FEST