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Monthly Sessions
We hold a monthly session usually on the first Friday of the month at St Patrick's Irish Club, Leamington Spa. Sessions start at 8pm with some slower easier tunes for beginners at the start.
Everyone is welcome to attend, to either participate if you are a musician or just come along and enjoy listening.
The next sessions in 2025 will be on 3rd January, 7th February, 7th March, 4th April.
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Christmas Ceili - Saturday 16th December 2024
Dancing to Ivy Leaf Ceili Band
St Joseph's Church Hall, Murcott Rd East, Whitnash, CV31 2JJ
Entry is £5 per adult, £2 per child or £10 per family.
Hot and cold soft drink refreshments available You are welcome to bring your own plate of food for your table/group and bring your own alcohol Doors open from 7pm, dancing starts at 7.30pm
Entry on door, £5 adult, £10 per family
Bring your own food and drinks/alcohol
Concerts
We arrange a couple of concerts per year which is a wonderful opportunity for the children to showcase what they have learnt in front of family and friends. Proceeds from the concerts are donated to St Joseph's Church Hall in thanks for them allowing us to use the hall for our weekly lessons and monthly sessions.
Below are some videos from our concert in January 2024
Harp Lessons - September 2024
Many thanks to the Vice Chairperson of our branch, Janet Harbison, an international and renown harpist, for arranging a FREE traditional Irish harp workshop in January 2024 . Also thanks to St Patrick's Irish Club for their support in facilitating this. It was a fantastic event with many attendees from across the Midlands and London. Janet is keen to start harp lessons locally, see below info about lessons commencing September 2024.
Below is a video of the afternoon session who were complete beginners after just 1-2 hours of tuition! For more info about Janet visit: www.janetharbisonharp.com/
Matheo & Cormac - performing their duet
Cailtin Borley
Fleadh/Competitions
For those children that wish to compete, we enter regional fleadhs every year in both solo and group competitions.
Depending on our success, we sometimes qualify to travel to compete at national competitons at the All Britain Fleadh and All Ireland Fleadh.
Results, photos and videos from the Midland Fleadh 2024 are below and are extremely proud to have lots of qualifiers and their families travelling to the All Britain Fleadh in St Helen's in June 2024.
Under 9 Whistle
Ethan Jones - 1st
Jun Troalen - 2nd
Under 12 Fiddle
Freya Weed - 2nd
Isla Berry - 3rd
Under 12 Button Accordion
Rose Ashby - 1st
12-15 Button Accordion
Cormac Cotter - 1st
12-15 Flute
Caitlin Borley - 1st
Under 12 Whistle
Isla Berry - 3rd
Marley Lambert and Rose Ashby were highly commended
12-15 Whistle
Caitlin Borley - 1st
12-15 Banjo
Matheo Goonan - 1st
12-15 Mandolin
Matheo Goonan - 1st
Under 12 Fiddle Slow Airs
Freya Weed - 1st
12-15 Flute Slow Airs
Caitlin Borley - 1st
12-15 Whistle Slow Airs
Caitlin Borley - 1st
Under 12 Duets
Isla Berry, Freya Weed - 2nd
Maya Ramsorrun, Ethan Jones - highly commended
12-15 Duets
Matheo Goonan, Cormac Cotter - 1st
Under 12 Trios
Rose Ashby, Marley Lambert, Amelia Jamison - 1st
Maeve Berry, Aimy Troalen, Maya Ramsorrun - 2nd
12-15 English Singing Men
Cormac Cotter - 1st
Cormac & Matheo
Isla & Freya
Freya
Marley, Rose, Amelia
Rose Ashby
Other Events
We take part in lots of performances and events including charity performances, fundraising, ceilis, carnivals, St Patricks Day celebrations and online video montages.
If you are interested in the children performing at an event please contact us.
St Patricks Day 2024
Below are a few pictures from St Patrick's Day in Leamington Spa, performances at Murphys Bar, our Ceili Night at St Joseph's Church Hall and performance at St Patrick's Irish Club. Thank you to everyone who supported us.
Happy 60th Anniversary to
St Patrick's Irish Club!
Our branch was delighted to be involved in St Patrick's Irish Club's 60th Anniversary week in October 2023. We performed in the club (joined by Coventry Comhaltas members) and had a fantastic time taking part in the parade through Leamington Town Centre. Below are some photos and video from the event.
Our branch performs for many charity events. We recently performed in March 2024 at our local Memory Cafe and in Summer 2023 we performed at Leamington Rehabilitation Hospital to help them raise funds to enhance patient's stay at the hospital. It was lovely to see staff and patients with their family & friends enjoying our music!