Irish Music and Culture Experience

  Ireland

• Other Cities in Ireland: 
Templemore

Dates: ongoing

Description: Enjoy a host of activities during your unique, week-long Fiddlers Retreat Irish holiday. Packages created for singles, couples and groups. Based in rural Ireland, in the heart and soul of the countryside yet within a few minutes drive of thriving towns. This holiday takes you away from the tourist trail and you will explore and experience a 'real' Ireland.

* The Irish Music, Culture and Cookery Appreciation Holiday:

The Appreciation Holiday is designed specifically for non-musicians and musicians of other instruments, styles and traditions of music who want to experience many elements of our rich cultural heritage.

* The Irish Fiddle Course:

The Irish Fiddle Courses is designed for fiddlers and violinists, players of all levels from total beginners to advanced level are welcome to attend the courses that run throughout the year. Class sizes are always small and students placed in courses with players of similar standards.

Highlights: You can enjoy a combination of the following elements on both the Irish Fiddle Courses and on the Appreciation Courses:

* Irish music tuition, variety of instruments: fiddle, tin whistle, bodhran
* Traditional Irish cookery demonstration
* Irish language and dancing workshops
* Escorted historic and scenic sightseeing
* Night-time traditional Irish music pub sessions
* Horse-riding, golf or hill-walking

and more.

Cost in US$: 1,700 U.S dollars

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Ireland Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups of 1 - 6, or larger groups on request

Application Process Involves:

• Other

Fiddlers Retreat's Mission Statement: At Fiddlers Retreat we welcome guests into a 'real and living' Ireland with off the beaten track experiences presented through Irelands music, culture, landscape and people.

Year Founded: 2005