RANDAL BAYS with ROGER LANDES OCTOBER 8th 8PM Admission $15.00 Children under 12 admitted free. WORKSHOPS: Randall Bays' Fiddle Workshop:  5 to 7 PM  Roger Landes' Bouzouki Accompaniment Workshop *:  5 to 7 PM Workshop fee is $20.00 for either:  Please call 610-486-2220 for registration!

The Cork Examiner (Ireland) calls Randal Bays "a rare beast, a master of both the fiddle and the guitar", and Fiddler Magazine says he is "among the best Irish style fiddlers of his generation." That's high praise for this self-taught American whose recordings and concerts have earned him recognition on both sides of the Atlantic as a multi instrumentalist of uncommon talent. As writer Don Meade puts it in "The Irish Voice" (New York, Jan. 2001) "Still best known to many for his beautiful guitar accompaniment on fiddler Martin Hayes' early recordings, Randal himself is a marvelous fiddler, one of the best in the country." Randal's grasp of the Irish fiddle style is rare among non-Irish musicians, a result of more than twenty-five years of fiddling, listening, and sharing many a late-night session with the finest traditional musicians. He's an excellent teacher - In his workshops and private lessons, the focus is on helping non-Irish fiddlers internalize a sense of an authentic Irish style, making the music their own while nurturing respect and understanding for its roots in Irish culture. Roger Landes became interested in Irish music in 1981, while at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Being classically trained, when he first heard traditional Irish music on recordings, he was struck by similar aspects of melody and rhythm between medieval works and traditional music. He followed this interest and obtained a 10-string cittern, a close relative of the Irish bouzouki, and set about learning the intricacies of Irish dance tunes and accompaniments. In the mid-1960s, Irish musicians experimented with bouzoukis brought from Greece to Ireland. Soon this "borrowed" instrument was showing up regularly at informal sessions. It is a powerful accompaniment instrument. * Mr. Landes will also discuss accompaniment using mandolin, tenor banjo, guitar and cittern.

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