New York Irish Center
Bodhrán Class
Bodhrán with colin harte
$165 for 8-week semester
Tuesdays @ 7 pm
This immersive, engaging class introduces beginners and intermediate students to different performance techniques and musical concepts for the Bodhrán. Different Irish traditional tune forms are explored in relation to percussive accompaniment. This class is suitable for beginners and intermediate students who are looking to hone their skills, of the classic Irish instrument, the Bodhrán! You will need to have a bodhrán for this online class. Email cfh745@gmail.com for more information.
about colin harte
Colin Harte earned his PhD in Ethnomusicology at the University of Florida’s School of Music, where he founded and performed with the UF Irish Traditional Music Ensemble. He earned his Masters in Educational Leadership from CUNY-Hunter College in 2018; his Master’s in Ethnomusicology from the University of Limerick; and his Master’s in Education from CUNY-Lehman College while teaching band, general music and percussion ensemble.
He currently teaches ethnomusicological courses for CUNY-Music/Irish Studies. He also teaches a world music curriculum for the NYCDOE in the north Bronx where he directs a 60 student West-African/Afro-Latin percussion ensemble, piano lab, world music courses, and music technology courses with the school recording studio. As a pianist, bodhrán player, and world music percussionist, he is active in the New York jazz, Latin and Irish traditional music communities. He wrote An Bodhrán: Experimentation and Innovation, which was published in May 2020 with the University of Tennessee Press.
