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Once again, the Whittier stage is fortunate to host a performance by the teaching staff of the esteemed Friday Harbor Irish Music Camp.  On Friday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m., the camp celebrates the end of its ninth annual session by bringing the teachers to the Theatre to share their talents, both solo and in improvised ensembles.

Founded by acclaimed Irish fiddler Randal Bays of Whidbey Island, and Friday Harbor’s own Irish music enthusiast and musician Dan Paulson, the camp is renowned for its caliber of teaching musicians, as well as its master-class style format and intimate class sizes.  For the first time, the camp will be located at Roche Harbor.

Bays says 2010’s staff is “probably one of the most exciting groups of musicians we’ve ever brought to the Island.”  Those instructors include: Irish fiddler Antóin MacGabhann; flautist Sean Moloney; Ireland’s young star accordion player Johnny  Óg Connolly; Florence Fahy on the concertina; fingerstyle guitarist Tony McManus; and tinwhistle instructor Andrea Cooper.