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The mission of the Irish Music and Dance Association is to support and promote Irish music, dance, and other

cultural traditions to insure their continuation. *

4th Annual Saint Paul Irish Arts Week

Celtic Junction Arts Center

This May is a particularly busy one at the Celtic Junction Arts Center. Not only do we celebrate our Ten Year Anniversary on May 4th, but we are a sponsor and venue for Irish Fair of MN's 4th Annual Irish Arts Week May 3-12. We're also holding a raffle for two roundtrip tickets to Ireland compliments of our sponsor, Aer Lingus. Purchase raffle tickets for $20 at the CJAC kiosk (4:30-9:30pm M-TH), during CJAC concerts, and at our Tenth Anniversary Celebration on May 4th! Act quickly - there are only 300 tickets available. The drawing will take place at 8pm, May 4th at the Celtic Junction Arts Center. Restrictions apply.

Visit celticjunction.org for more info.

Here is a list of events and classes taking place at CJAC this month.

Friday, May 3

SuperCELTifragilisticexpialidocious Dance and Art Ball, 7:30-10 pm.

Advance tickets $15, $20 at the door. Art and dance mingle in an immersive art film experience accompanied by The Langer's Ball and DJ Drew Miller. Wear white to become part of the exhibit.

Saturday, May 4

Celtic Junction’s 10th Anniversary and the Kick-off Day to Irish Arts Week!

1:00-2:00 pm. Courtney Buck "Murder Ballads - From Ireland and abroad.” $10 per person. McKiernan Library.

2:00-3:00 pm. Carrie Finnigan. "Drawing Celtic Mythology." $10 per person. McKiernan Library.

3:00-4:30 pm. Ethna McKiernan 'Swimming with Shadows' Poetry Book Launch. Free. Celtic Junction Studio 2.

4:30-5:30 pm. Consul General Brian O’Brien on Brexit and the Global Ireland 2025 initiative. Free. Celtic Junction Main Room.

5:30-6:00 pm. Gallery Opening with Margaret Mulligan. Free. Lobby.

May 2019

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Saturday, May 4

CJAC's Ten Year Anniversary Celebration! 6:00-10:00pm. Free. It's been ten years since we opened our

doors and it's time for a party! 6:00-8:00 pm. Program with MPR radio host Tom Crann as

Master of Ceremonies for musicians and speakers featuring Irish Consul General, Brian O’Brien. Main studio.

8:00-10:00 pm. Party with the Gunn Slingers! Cash bar available.

Sunday, May 5 Historic Bus Tour of St. Paul’s Connemara Patch. 12:00-2:00 pm. Tickets: $36 A walking tour of this historic area with tour-guide Teresa McCormick. Limited to 30 participants. Celtic Junction Arts Center Children's Fair. 2:00-4:00 pm. Free to the public! Your young ones can dance a jig, try out instruments, listen to some rollicking tunes, enjoy story time and puppets, play games, and munch on snacks. Irish Tenor Paul Byrom in Concert. 7-9 pm. Advanced tickets $25, $30 at the door. Paul is one of the original soloists in the hit show Celtic Thunder. He and the group had six #1 World Billboard albums.

Monday May 6

“Silver Apples of the Moon: The World of W.B. Yeats.” 7:30-9:00 pm Tickets: $10.00 Celtic Junction Arts Center, McKiernan Library Performance by Phoenix Theater

The IMDA Board is:

President: Julia Rogers

Vice President: Jan Casey

Treasurer: Open

Secretary: Jean Bergstrom

Board Members: John Concannon Kathie Luby Amber Ladany Maureen Engelhardt Aja Beers Gemma Forbush Editor: Kathie Luby IMDA Board Meetings are open to the membership. The Board meets regularly on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:00 pm at the Dubliner Pub, St. Paul. Members are encouraged to verify the time and location shortly before, as meeting times and locations can change.

Contact Information

E-mail: info@irishmusicanddanceassociation.org

Newsletter Submissions We welcome our readers to submit articles of interest, news, and notices of events to be published in the newsletter. The deadline is the 18th of the preceding month.

Send to: editor@irishmusicanddanceassociation.org

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Tuesday, May 7

Tom Dunn: “Irish in MN.” 7:30-9:00 pm. Free. Joe and Stan’s Pub

Documentary film: "Máirín de Burca: A Loner's Instinct.” 7:30-9:00 pm. $5 per person. Celtic Junction/McKiernan Library. A candid portrait of an Irish campaigning feminist and political activist.

Wednesday, May 8

Clare Pelzel Art Wall. 5:00-6:00 pm. Free. Emmett’s Public House

Patsy O'Brien presents "The Boy Patrick." 7:30-9:00 pm. $10 per person. McKiernan Library. A musical and educational presentation on the youth of Ireland’s national saint.

Thursday, May 9

Inland Seas opening band at the Danny Schwarze Small Adventures album launch. 7:00-10:00pm. Free FINNEGANS Brew House Tap Room

Friday, May 10

Sonoglyph: Literary and Musical Group. 7:00-8:00 pm. Free. Eastside Freedom Library

Piper Paddy Keenan in Concert. 7:30-9:30 pm. Advance tickets $18, $22 at the door. Irish Mu-sic Awards 2010 'Top Uilleann Piper' and 2011 'Lifetime Achievement Award' winner Paddy Keenan will be accompanied by guitarist Paul Garding.

Saturday, May 11

O’Shea Irish Dance Spring Recital. 3:00-5:00 pm. $10 per person. Main studio. The unstoppable and world-class OID showcases its youngest dancers.

Dan Milner: “The Unstoppable Irish: Songs and Integration of the New York Irish, 1783-1883.” 3-4:00 pm. $5 per person. McKiernan Library. New York-based author and music historian discusses his well-regarded song history book.

Dan and Bonnie Milner. 7:00-9:00 pm. $10, $15 at the door. Presented by The Traditional Singers Club and Celtic Junction Arts Center's Eoin McKiernan Library. Dan and Bonnie Milner sing traditional Irish, Irish-American and maritime songs solo and in unaccompanied harmony.

Sunday, May 12

Center for Irish Music Spring Recital. 1:00-6:00 pm. Free. Main studio. The award-winning musicians of this St. Paul gem demonstrate their abilities.

Bonfire and a new 30 foot "Creativity Labyrinth" created by Marilyn Larson. 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Newell Park

Later in May

Honeywine: featuring Dennis Curley, Dorian Chalmers and Becky Schlegel, May 17 & 19, 7:30-10 pm both nights. Advance tickets $20, $25 at the door. Pure, sweet trio singing with a real Americana sound. Celtic Junction Arts Center

Scottish Ceilidh with Neil Gunn and the Gunn Slingers. May 31. Celtic Junction Arts Center.

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Language has a lot to do with our sense of time. Most importantly, words allow us to share how we experience time with others. Certainly I have non-verbal memories of events in my past. But I can use language to recreate those experiences so that you can more or less experience them yourself. I can even create past events that didn't actually happen ("Back when I was an astronaut ..."). Similarly, language gives me the power to paint pictures of scenes that have not yet arrived. We can talk about events and conditions that will apply tomorrow or next week or next year. In many languages, this distinction among past, present and future is largely carried by the verb. If you took something like French or Spanish in high school, you probably remember conjugating verbs, changing their form according to "past tense," "future tense," and so on. We tend to assume that these tenses are conceptually the same across languages, that the past is the past and that's all there is to it. But the truth is that different languages may handle time somewhat differently. And we can see some differences in how these tenses reflect our understanding of time when we compare Irish with English. Some of these differences are subtle. Say we're expecting a visitor and we want to discuss something when she arrives on some future date. In English, we might say, "We'll talk about it when she comes tomorrow." or "We'll discuss that when she gets here tomorrow." Notice that that phrase about tomorrow, "when she comes," is actually in the present tense. Irish is a bit fussier about that and requires that you use a future tense in that phrase. We would say, "We'll talk about it when she will come tomorrow." More interesting are what are called the "habitual tenses," the past habitual and the present habitual. Use

of these tenses implies that an action is repeated.

I can say, Bhí mé ag an rang aréir, "I was at class last night." That's the simple past tense, describing a single event. But to translate, "I was at class every

week last year," I use a different tense, the past habitual, to indicate that this happened repeatedly in the past:Bhínn ag an rang 'chuile sheachtain anuraidh. ‘

As mentioned earlier, there is also a present habitual tense. When I say, Ithim arán, I eat bread," that present habitual tense form lets you know that I eat bread on a regular basis, that I make a habit of it. But here's the rub: unlike the past, there is no simple present tense for all but one verb in Irish, which brings us to bí.

There are two verbs in Irish that translate the English "to be," and bí is the one used for most descriptive situations: "The car is red," "The cow is in the corn," and so on. Bí is unique among Irish verbs in that it has a simple present form in addition to the habitual form used by all other verbs. That is, bí is the only verb that has two present tenses.

So when I say, Tá an trácht go dona (Tá is the simple present form of bí), I mean "The traffic is bad (right now, today)." But when I use the present habitual, Bíonn an trácht go dona, I mean, "Traffic is (generally) bad," that is, traffic jams are a regular problem.

One of the reasons learning Irish, or any language, is fun is that it gives you new perspectives on familiar things, it teaches you new ways of looking at the world. And at least in the case of Irish, you learn even to think about time a little differently than you used to.

With more than 35 years of teaching Irish in the Twin Cities, you'd have to say that Gaeltacht Minnesota definitely has a past with the language. And given how much fun we're having learning its intricacies in the present, you can expect to see us at it for the foreseeable future.

Ná cuir do ghnóthaí ó inniu go dtí amárach Don't put off your business from today until tomorrow.

The Gaelic Corner By Will Kenny

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WORKSHOPS · LECTURES · CONCERT · SESSIONS

Registration now open at centerforirishmusic.org/mim

Minnesota Irish Music Weekend, presented by the Center for Irish Music, is a unique festival that pairs world-class traditional Irish musicians and teachers with learners of all ages for a weekend of workshops, lectures, a Great Session Experience and a rare and virtuosic Saturday night concert. Start your weekend early with a Thursday night Opening Reception on June 13th! Each of our visiting artists is recognized for their musical mastery, and will offer insights and techniques to help learners tap into the deep roots of

traditional Irish music.

PROGRAMMING

PUBLIC EVENTS

Trad Immersion Camp (9-12 years) intermediate level

Friday

Teen Program (12-19 years) intermediate-advanced level

Friday - Sunday

Adult workshops, lectures, inter-views all levels!

Saturday & Sunday

Opening Reception Thursday, June 13th, 7:00-9:00 pm

An interview with the Friel sisters by Dáithí Sproule, a session, and refresh-ments. $15/free for Immersion & Teen

Program participants

The Great Session Experience Friday June 14th, 7:00-9:00pm FREE! Join in the fun as we fill

every nook and cranny of the building with tunes and songs.

MIM Master Artist Concert Saturday June 15th, 7:30pm

The signature event of Minnesota Irish Music Weekend, featuring visit-ing artists. $20/$6 before May 5, $25/

$10 after May 5

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For 86 years, the Festival of Nations has inspired people throughout the region to discover more about our world and embrace the rich cultural diversity brought to us by immigrants from around the globe.

Since 1932, its goal has been to inspire people to discover more about our world and embrace the rich cultural diversity in our community. Nearly 100 ethnic groups will come together for a unique, 4-day experience that celebrates cultural heritage through dancing, performances, exhibits, demonstrations and cuisine. The Festival is a department of the International Institute of Minnesota, whose mission is “helping New Americans achieve self-sufficiency and full membership in American life.”

As the Minnesota cultural landscape expands to include more immigrants, our community benefits culturally and economically. By providing a platform to showcase diversity and a stage for new artists we share and document this most precious heritage. The Festival evolves each year by welcoming new ethnic groups and by offering programming that reflects the cultural fluidity of our community.

Irish on Grand will be part of the International Bazaar and Irish and Celtic cultures will be represented through performances by Rupalai (Siobhan Dugan, Tom Juenemann, Chad McAnally, Buddy Ferrari) for the Irish and Laura MacKenzie for the Scottish, plus Irish dance represented by O’Shea Irish Dance, Knocknagow Irish Dancers and Mooncoin Céili Dancers.

The Festival of Nations is held at RiverCenter in downtown St. Paul on May 3 thru 5 beginning at 4:30 pm on Friday. Thursday (student hours) and Friday day hours are reserved for student groups. Advance tickets are available on the festival website. Free transportation is available through MetroTransit by downloading a free pass through the Festival website - www.festivalofnations.com.

IMDA Welcomes A New Board Member Gemma Forbush is a digital marketing specialist and event producer, specializing in programming and stage management for non profit organiza-tions and associations. With deep Irish roots on both sides of her family, Gemma found her love of the stage when she first started Irish dancing at the wee age of four. After 12 years on the stage as a dancer with groups like the Saint Paul Irish Dancers and Rince Na Chroi, Gemma now manages the Irish Fair of Minnesota Dance Stage with her husband Rafael.

Gemma currently works as a content strategist for the Minneapolis ad agency giant, Carmichael Lynch, and serves as the Director of Programming for the Minneapolis Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA). She is an entrepreneur, owning several small businesses in partnership with her husband. Her work in digital strategy focuses on website, email, social media, event activations and cross-channel communication strategy. When Gemma isn’t at the office (or planning an event) she’s likely to be found listening to music or tending to the family garden with her husband and two dogs.

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Best Wishes to Kevin Carroll Many thanks and best wishes to Kevin Carroll, whose term on the IMDA Board ended in December. Kevin has served on the board since May 2015. In that time, Kevin was the principal grant writer for IMDA, securing Metropolitan Regional Arts Council and St. Paul STAR Grants in support of IMDA’s St. Patrick’s Day Irish Celebrations and Days of Irish Dance and helping to insure IMDA’s financial future. Kevin’s eagle eye for detail was welcome as assistant editor for the IMDA newsletter. Kevin also organized and hosted the IMDA Open Mic Nights at the Black Dog Wine Bar (with support from his Legacy bandmates Patty Drew and David McKoskey). These events help strengthen our community and encourage community members to share their talents. Kevin will continue to perform with Legacy, so we’ll be seeing him around town. The board will miss his sense of humor and his dedication to our mission. Our heartfelt thanks for his many contributions and best wishes for a music-filled future!

Don’t Miss Bloomsday 2019 in St. Paul

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Northwoods Songs: Irish Songs from Lumberjacks and Great Lakes Sailors By Brian Miller

Northwoods Songs features a new song each month pulled from my research into old songs collected in the pine woods region that stretches from New Brunswick west through northern Minnesota. In the 1800s, a vibrant culture of singing and song-making developed in lumber camp bunkhouses and on Great Lakes ships. The repertoire and singing style were greatly influenced by Irish folk repertoire and Irish singing styles. Many singers in the region had Irish background themselves.

Each installment of Northwoods Songs is also published online at www.evergreentrad.com. My hope is that others will learn some of these songs and make them their own as I have. -Brian Miller

THE GALLAGHER BOYS

Come all brother sailors I hope you’ll draw nigh, For to hear of the sad news, it will cause you to cry, Of noble Johnny Gallagher, who sailed to and fro, He was lost on Lake Michigan where the stormy winds blow.

It was in October in seventy three, We left Beaver harbor and had a calm sea, Bound away to Traverse City, our destination to go, We were crossing Lake Michigan where the stormy winds blow.

We left Traverse City at nine the next day And down to Elk Rapids we then bore our way, We took in our store and to sea we did go, We were crossing Lake Michigan where the stormy winds blow.

At nine that same night a light we did spy, That is Beaver Island, we are drawing nigh, We carried all sails, the Lookout, she did go, We were crossing Lake Michigan where the stormy winds blow.

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Oh Johnny got up and he spoke to his crew, He says, “My brave boys, now be steady and true, Stand by your fore halyards, let your main halyards to, There’s a squall on Lake Michigan where the stormy winds blow.”

The Lookout’s she’s a-runnin’ before a hard gale. Upset went her rudder and overboard went her sail, The billows were foaming like mountains of snow. We shall ne’er cross Lake Michigan where the stormy winds blow.

Says Owen, “Brother Johnny, it grieves my heart sore, To think we will never return to the shore, God help our poor parents, their tears down will flow, For we’ll sleep in Lake Michigan where the stormy winds blow.”

I am looking forward to a talk on the Irish music of Beaver Island, Michigan that I will be giving in June at the Center for Irish Music’s Minnesota Irish Music Weekend! In anticipation of that, I thought I would share song composed on Beaver Island this month: “The Gallagher Boys.”

Island singer Dominick Gallagher was six years old in 1873 when word came to the island that a boat went down in a gale while making the 70 mile return trip from a supply run to Traverse City. Dominick’s own father, Dominick Sr., had left on the same boat and was assumed to be among the lost.

“…when the news came and the report was that all hands was lost, I remember runnin’ and hangin’ around mother. I couldn’t realize what they were all cryin’ about. I had six sisters and they were all home and they were all cryin’, too. That night they had a wake and all, just as though he was there, and all the next day the neighbors came around.”

-Dominick Gallagher to Alan Lomax, 1938

Miraculously, Dominick Sr. returned the next day. His friend Captain Roddy had also been in Traverse City and had convinced him not to make the crossing. Still, the Beaver Islanders who did venture out (including a Johnny Gallagher) were lost and the above song was composed shortly after by local song-maker Dan Malloy.

Above is my transcription of Dominick’s own melody and four verse text as sung for Lomax with the addition of three verses (1, 4 and 5 above) that were sung that same year by fellow Islander Johnny Green who had a much longer version of the song.

Visit a full archive of all Northwoods Songs columns and songs online at www.evergreentrad.com

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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Smidirini* (*Irish for ‘Bits and Pieces’)

By Copper Shannon

Go mbíodh biseach ort gan mhoill! (May there be improvement on you without delay!) to Erin Hart. Erin is sporting some new hardware (screws and tightrope) from a broken ankle and fibula when she slipped and fell on the ice back in March. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Look for an imaginative dance event with live music at the Northrop this Fall. With support from Culture Ireland, Northrup is presenting Swan Lake/Loch na hEala by the Irish dance company Teac Damsa Oct. 24 to 27. “From the imagination of Michael Keegan-Dolan – one of Ireland’s foremost dance and theater-makers – comes this new, contemporary adaptation of the world’s most famous ballet. With a cast of eight dancers, two actors, and three musicians (Dublin-based Slow Moving Clouds) playing an original score of traditional Irish and Nordic folk music, ancient Irish mythology meets modern Ireland head-on. The result is a world of magical realism, with a beauty as fierce and rugged as the landscape of Ireland itself.” Local connection: Anna Lethert’s husband Danny Diamond collaborated to compose the beautiful original score for this wonderful, unique and riveting version of the classic ballet and will be here to perform the music live on stage. According to Liz Welch, this is “a relevant and powerful story based in the Irish midlands … an absolutely stunning and mesmerizing production of dance theater that will stay with you long after you leave the show”– and one that has played to rave reviews all over the world. Single ticket sales begin June 10 through the Northrop box office. Check out the trailer at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B8AM-_KASr0.

Welcome news from Unwelcome Visitors! That’s the trad band of Rosa Wells on fiddle, Ryan Behnke

on Uilleann pipes/flute, and Buddy Ferrari on bouzouki/song. The band has a new CD coming out! You can follow them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/unwelcomevisitors/. (It’s nice to have Ryan back in town – at least for a little while!)

Looking for the IMDA Community Calendar?

The IMDA Community Calendar is your go-to place to find out what’s happening in Irish music, dance, liter-ature and cultural events in the Twin Cities and beyond.

Find it at www.imda-mn.org/calendar.

The calendar on our website is updated often – and is “searchable” for your favorite artist, venue or type of event. Check it out – and return often!

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Irish Festival Preview – Save these dates!

The festival season will soon be here – are you ready for some fun?

Chicago Gaelic Park Irish Fest, Chicago, IL – May 24-26. Three days of great music, dance, children’s ac-tivities, exhibits, a petting zoo, Irish horse exhibition and sports contests and more at Gaelic Park in Oak For-est. Featured bands include JigJam, Colm Keegan, Joe Cullen, Billow Wood, The Dancing Noodles, Rocks Off, The Fitzgeralds and more. Details at chicagogaelicparkirishfest.org/ Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival, Cleveland, OH – July 19-21. This is the 37th year for the Cleveland festi-val held at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds. Gaelic Storm, We Banjo 3, The Stanfields, The Byrne Brothers, Cherish the Ladies, Rory Makem, and Derek Warfield & the Young Wolf Tones are some of the bands plus Irish schools and pipe bands! Details at clevelandirish.org. Dublin Irish Festival, Dublin, OH – Aug. 2-4. “Celebrating the Homeland from the Heartland.” Altan, Gael-ic Storm, The Red Hot Chilli Pipers, We Banjo 3, Slide, Scythian, Doolin’, Socks in the Frying Pan, The East Pointers and Emmet Cahill are just a taste of the bands that will help you experience a world of music! Details at www.dublinirishfestival.org. Iowa Irish Festival, Waterloo, IA – Aug. 2–4. The schedule has yet to be announced but this festival always includes great national and international bands. The festival is held in a lovely, relaxed park setting in down-town Waterloo, just a few hours from the Twin Cities! Check it out at www.iowairishfest.com. Irish Fair of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN – Aug. 9-11. We Banjo 3, Screaming Orphans, Doolin’, Aoife Scott, The High Kings, The Fitzgeralds plus our wonderful local bands! Get the whole story at www.irishfair.com. Milwaukee Irish Fest, Milwaukee, WI - Aug. 15-18. For four days every August, Milwaukee's lakefront comes brilliantly alive with the sounds and sights of Ireland. The family-friendly festival is "the mother of all Irish festivals" and is the largest celebration of its kind anywhere in the world. Here’s a taste of the music: Aoife Scott, Backwest, Boxing Banjo, Connla, Doolin’, Elephant Sessions, Emma Langford, Gaelic

Storm, Hank Cramer, The High Kings, Moxie, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Rum Ragged, Realta, Socks in the

Frying Pan, Tommy Sands, and We Banjo 3. A four-day pass is available on-line until Aug. 1. Be sure to check out the website at www.irishfest.com to plan your weekend. Irishfest Central Wisconsin, Weston, WI – Aug. 24. Held in Kennedy Park in Weston, Irishfest is a free ad-mission charity event, with proceeds benefiting local community partners. Details on entertainment and activ-ities will be on the website - www.irishfestcentralwisconsin.com Indy Irish Fest, Indianapolis, IN – Sept. 13-15. Indy Irish Fest is held in historic Military Park in downtown Indianapolis. The Fighting Jamesons and the Fenians have been announced - check in for more as the bands are announced at www.indyirishfest.com. Michigan Irish Music Festival, Muskegon, MI – Sept. 12–15. This is the 20th Year for this amazing festival in Muskegon – just across Lake Michigan from Door County. Leave your car and take the ferry for a great weekend of music! Gaelic Storm, High Kings, Aoife Scott, JigJam, Doolin’, Connla, Colm Keegan and more. Details and updates are posted at www.michiganirish.org.

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Ceili Corner By Bhloscaidh O’Keane Check www.lomamor.org for all up-to-date Irish folk dancing information.

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