Band members and alumni offer festival workshops and private/group instruction on flute, tin whistle, fife, guitar, dulcimer, and voice. Please inquire how we can enrich your festival and support your teaching program.
Band Members
- David Rosen offers a unique workshop that teaches how to build and play the inimitable pogocello.
- Lynn Noel offers solo festival workshops in maritime music, harmony singing, English mumming and folk plays, Franco music, and more. A professional heritage interpreter, she leads training and professional-development workshops in first-person living history and in using music and storytelling in museum education.
- Diane Taraz offers solo festival workshops in women's history, songwriting, choral arranging, and song leading with small children. She also takes commissions for original choral works and choral arrangements.
- Diane and Lynn, Les Bostonnaises (the girls from Boston), offer a duo workshop in Songs of Old and New France, featuring traditional French and French-Canadian chansons à répondre and original songs of the Franco experience in New England.
- John Berger offers festival workshops in fingerstyle guitar, Celtic fiddle, and five-string banjo.
- Nancy Koch offers festival workshops in accordion styles and technique.
Band Alumni
See each alumni member's bio for more information.- Andrea Mori teaches Irish flute, whistle, and fife.
- Paul Harty offers workshops and teaching, both solo and with his many performing groups.