Date: Fri 3rd Feb 2023
Time: 19:00pm (Approx 90 mins)
Location: Radio Fáilte, 30 Divis Street, Belfast, BT12 4AL
Cost: £5 - includes a ticket (plus guardian, if u18) to Martin Hayes and the Common Ground Ensemble at the Grand Opera House on Sat 4th Feb)

This very special Martin Hayes fiddle workshop is presented by Belfast International Arts Festival in association with Belfast Tradfest with special project support from Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust and Radcliffe Trust.

Participants will also be invited to attend Martin’s performance with his new group, the Common Ground Ensemble on Saturday 4th February at the Grand Opera House, Belfast.

The class is geared towards  intermediate and advanced players with a minimum 3 years fiddle playing experience and will take place in the Raidió Fáilte building at 30 Divis Street, Belfast, BT12 4AL

“Anyone can write a complicated melody … it’s the simple ones that take the most talent.” Martin Hayes

Martin Hayes  is one of the world’s most celebrated fiddlers and an influential figure in Irish traditional music. Rooted in the classical, folk and contemporary worlds, Hayes is the founder of the seminal Irish-American supergroup The Gloaming, and has collaborated with everyone from Bill Frisell and Yo-Yo Ma to Sting and Paul Simon. He is equally respected as a master teacher and during this special workshop, he discusses in detail his own approach to Irish music: how he has learned to think about melody, his approach to shaping melodic lines, thoughts on bowing technique, and advice on working with other musicians.

Martin Hayes will demonstrate how to break down a melody to its essential bare bones elements and rebuild it through a process of interpretation, variation, and ornamentation. By looking at elements of shape, harmony, feel, and groove Martin will help you better understand how to make traditional melodies all your own.

Belfast International Arts Festival is supported by The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council, British Council NI, the Government of Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Tourism Northern Ireland.
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MARTIN HAYES AND THE COMMON GROUND ENSEMBLE
Saturday 04 February 2023

7.30pm

£27.50 - £17.50 Prices include maximum applicable per ticket booking fee.

Tickets - https://www.goh.co.uk/whats-on/martin-hayes-and-the-common-people/