The Stringsters and I performed as the lobby pre-show of Mick Moloney's Irish-American Music & Dance Festival with special guests: Paraic Keane & Friends.  We then joined Mick Moloney and company on the main stage .

  On March 2nd, 2003, we performed with The Chieftains, Ireland's foremost traditional band!

Information, pictures, and sound files from last year's show with The Chieftains below!

The Chieftains concert
at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts
on March 2, 2003!

  And, we were there on stage.  Click here to hear an MP3 file of us on stage with the Chieftains playing "Give Me Your Hand"!  Click here to hear an MP3 file of "Orange Blossom Special"!

  I was given the honor of selecting seven of my best students to perform on stage, with The Chieftains, and in the lobby at that show!  We call ourselves "mrfiddle's Stringsters", and have be practicing a lot!   The kids and I have worked up two new (actually very old!) Irish tunes by the famed Irish harpist, Turlough O'Carolan, to perform.  I've included sheet music and MIDI files of the songs for those of you who would like to learn to play them!

Give Me Your Hand            The King of the Fairies