Students of Jean Hill have reaped the benefits of her multifaceted love of Irish culture and arts for decades. This appreciation is apparent in everything from her music selection to the ancillary cultural influences and the tenacity of maintaining one of the state’s only Irish dance outposts for over 20 years. Hill began independently teaching […]
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Tapping tradition
Wayne Cantwell Photo: Mark Hancock An Irish jam session, known as a seisiún in Irish Gaelic, includes an array of musical instruments. Most often, one would find a combination of fiddle; button accordion; flute; tin whistle; guitar; tenor banjo; piano; uilleann (elbow) pipes; and a bodhrán, a goatskin Irish drum. The bouzouki, a Greek stringed […]