Cork Pipers’ Club present our 2010 Tionól on March 20 & 21 at the Wilton SMA Hall in Cork.  Eoin Ó Riabhaigh and Ciaran Ryan will be providing tuition for the pipes classes on the Saturday from 10am-1pm and again after lunch from 2-4.30pm.  Dave Hegarty will provide reedmaking classes at the same times on Saturday and again on Sunday from 10am-12pm to perfect those reeds!

We will hold a session on Saturday March 20 in a nearby pub at which all musicians are welcome.

Please go to the Classes page to register your interest for either beginner or improver classes or the reedmaking course.

Classes at Cork Pipers’ Club start again on Thursday January 21.  Cost for the term of 12 classes is €100 as before. Beginners classes start at 7pm with improvers at 8pm.  Please register your interest on the Classes page.  We have a registration night in Wilton SMA Hall on Thursday January 14 from 7-7.30pm.  That is dependent on weather but we will be in touch with those of you who register interest on the site if we need to postpone the registration night due to bad weather.  Also check back here for any further updates.

We are re-introducing a club membership fee to help pay for running costs of the club.  To this end we will be looking for €20 from each member.  Non-pipers are also more than welcome to join the club.  Please contact us if you are interested.

The Cork Pipers’ Club classes will recommence on September 24 at Wilton SMA Hall.  We will be registering at the same venue on September 21 from 7pm to 730pm.  If you can’t make that and would like to register, please leave a comment here or email me using the details on the Contact page.  Classes will cost €100 for a 12 week term.

For those of you who have loan sets from the club, we will be contacting you shortly as we may need to redistribute loan sets to newer members.  The aim of the loan sets is to give people a flavour of what uilleann pipes are like while you make up your mind if it’s for you but it should be for a short-term basis.

Looking forward to seeing you again.

The South Wales Uilleann Pipers have been in touch to let us know about their upcoming Tionól on September 5th.  From their website:

Tionól: A day of piping workshops and an evening of concerts.

The next SWUP tionól will be held on Saturday 5th September 2009.

Venue: Holy Trinity Church, Tylorstown.

Piping classes: Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn & Alan Burton; Reed making: Alan Moller.

Start at 10am – 4pm, afterwards there will also be a concert of celtic music at the same location starting at 7.00pm.

The famed Brendan Ring is running piping workshops in a unique setting in the South-West of France. These will include pipe workshops and reed-making sessions and he will even give due care and attention to your uilleann pipes if they are in need of a service.  Can’t say fairer than that!

The cherry on top for these workshops is the unique location which is a chateau with four-poster beds.  The price includes two nights stay in the chateau with what looks like plenty of wine .

Please note, this isn’t a Cork Pipers Club venture, it just looks a really good idea!