Celtic Music Society... East Rochester High School's Traditional Irish Music Ensemble











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Celtic Music Society will record their next album during the 2007-08 school year. Under the working title With A Little Help From My Friends, we will be calling on a number of Western New York's traditional musicians to join us.

Interested in joining Celtic? ER students and parents should contact Mr. Gowman, and should also read our new >>> brochure for interested students.

Celtic Music Society is a unique program comprised of student musicians from East Rochester Senior and Junior High Schools in East Rochester, New York. Founded in the fall of 2001, this group of young musicians performs the traditional music of Ireland in authentic traditional and contemporary styles. In our first six years, we performed more than 125 times, hosted seven workshops by All-Ireland Champion musicians, and shared the stage with some of the top Irish musicians from our region and the world. Celtic Music Society has presented teacher workshops at Nazareth College and the Eastman School of Music, as well as the 2003 and 2004 New York State School Music Association annual teacher conferences. We were one of only four student ensembles invited from the United States to perform at the 2006 National Music Student Leadership Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. In addition, our director, Mark Gowman, presented a workshop for more than 100 teachers from across North America at the corresponding Music Educators National Conference. Celtic Music Society is believed to be the only public school Irish music program in the United States.

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"Their enthusiasm and sheer enjoyment of making music is a delight to experience." —Kevin Crawford, Lunasa

"Congratulations to you and all your kids, they were fabulous. Please tell them I said so... you guys are really unique!" —Bob Phillips, Alfred Publishing Clinician and Author of String Explorer String Method, Fiddlers Philharmonic, Fiddlers Philharmonic Encore!, and Jazz Philharmonic

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At the Eastman School of Music's famed Kilbourn Hall