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SUMMARY:SSWC Willie Clancy Summer School
DESCRIPTION:Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy is a week-long summer school in t
 raditional music and set dance held annually at Miltown Malbay\, Co. Clare.
  The first and biggest of such events\, it commemorates the town's best-kno
 wn uilleann piper\, Willie Clancy\, and has been running since just after h
 is death in 1973. The idea was initiated by Clancy himself\, and implemente
 d within six months by teacher Muiris Ó Rócháin in collaboration with CC
 E's timire ceoil Séamus Mac Mathúna and local musicians Martin Talty\, Pa
 ddy Joe McMahon and Junior Crehan. The school is focused around the teachin
 g of instruments and set dancing in formal classes\, but stresses the value
  of the oral/aural tradition. In its fleadh-style volume of music-making in
  bars it has become something of a Mecca in the music\, its retinue of up t
 o a hundred and fifty teachers\, and hundreds of improving and competent mu
 sicians\, dancers and singers drawing in thousands of listeners. The school
  addresses the cultural and intellectual side of traditional music by the i
 nclusion of daily workshops on singing and the tradition\, afternoon lectur
 es and evening recitals. The 'Breandán Breathnach memorial lecture'\, give
 n by various authorities in traditional music\, opens the school\, a music 
 tribute at Clancy's grave\, launch of albums and publications in traditiona
 l music follow. Scores of impromptu sessions accompany these organised acti
 vities\, nightly set dance and céilis complement a routine of morning clas
 ses given by top players on uilleann pipes\, flute\, tin whistle\, concerti
 na\, fiddle\, button accordion and set dancing. [Classes in harp\, banjo an
 d harmonica have been added in recent years.]\n- Adapted from The Companion
  to Irish Traditional Music\, edited by Fintan Vallely\, (Cork University P
 ress (1999)
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