Please register for the symposium here
Schedule:
9.00-10.00 Fay Hield ‘Stepping Stone theory: Increasing and Diversifying Participation in English Folk Singing’
Maurice Mullen ‘Is there a place for the amateur player in Irish traditional music today?’
10-10.15 Break
10.15-11.15 Jessica Cawley ‘Examining the impact of Music Generation on traditional music education in Ireland’
Jo Miller ‘Extending participation: Challenges for a community-based traditional music organisation in Glasgow’
11.15-11.30 Break
11.30-12.30 Javier Campos ‘Myth, business, and academia. In search of musical identity in post-Celtic Scotland and Ireland’
Stuart Eydmann ‘1947 and the post-war emergence of traditional music in Scottish education”
12.30-1.15 Lunch
1.15-2.15 Samantha Jones ‘Tune Knowledge and Adaptive Expression in Irish Dance’
Mark A. Stevenson ‘The Upward Spiral: Identity and Performance in Uilleann Piping’
2.15-2.30 Break
2.30-3.30 Michael O’Malley ‘Francis O’Neill and the Policing of Irish Music”
Scott. Spencer ‘Capt. Francis O’Neill, Irish Traditional Music, and Social Status in Early 20th Century Chicago’
3.30-4 Break
4-5pm Roundtable: David Francis, Gay McKeon, Helen Lawlor, Simon McKerrell
‘Changing Routes into traditional music in Ireland and Scotland’
Simon McKerrell 