The Riley School is delighted to host Randy Clepper and John Sherman for a joint workshop focusing on Irish music accompaniment. Guitar and bouzouki players, accompaniment-curious melody players, and singers are all encouraged to attend. The latter part of the workshop will break out into specific sessions for bouzouki (accompaniment, countermelody, some melody) and guitar (DADGAD fingerstyle and/or accompaniment). Bring your questions! Instruments are optional.
These two consummate multi-instrumental performers of Irish traditional music from the Columbus area have been regular performers at the Dublin Irish Festival for over a decade, have appeared on WYSO’s Dear Green Place and are frequently featured on WCBE’s Toss the Feathers.
Multi-instrumentalist RANDY CLEPPER plays Irish traditional music on Irish bouzouki, fingerstyle acoustic guitar, tenor banjo and hammer dulcimer. He performed as half of the duo Begley’s Braes with Scottish harpist Christine Fraser Ramsey. Besides traditional Irish music, he performed as part of an eclectic hammer dulcimer group Hammer On!. Through connections with his Hammer On! bandmate Dan Landrum, Randy performed with the Chattanooga Symphony, with members of the Yanni World Tour ensemble and with aerial dance troupe Project Bandaloop. He has also recorded a solo instrumental album of traditional Irish music, “Within a Mile”, and an album, “Hammer On!”, with the band of the same name.
Learn more on Randy's website
https://randyclepper.com/home
JOHN SHERMAN has arranged over a hundred Irish and Scottish melodies for the guitar. He has three solo recordings, "Farewell to the Creeks", "So Inclined", and "Far Green Country", two recordings, "Sounds from the Atlantic" and "Rainbands" with the Ohio-based band Innisheer, an album, "Links", with the Celtic group Silver Arm, and an album of Irish music arranged for two guitars, "Ceol Anam", with the late fingerstylist Carol Barney. John has performed with uilleann piper Todd Denman, and as a regular accompanying guitarist for folk singer/songwriter Tom Paxton, and has opened for the Tannahill Weavers, Phil Cunningham, John Renbourn, and Green Fields of America. John taught at the Riley School for many years.
This approximately 90-minute workshop is $20 for the general public and free to current Riley School students, teachers, and Community Stewards
https://rileyirishmusic.com/community-stewardship. Tickets are available online or cash only at the door.
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