Time, Date & Location:

10.30am - 1.00pm, Saturday 19th Feb, St. Malachy’s College.

The Tutor:

Cathal Hayden from Pomeroy Co. Tyrone is one of the biggest names on the traditional music circuit. Both his solo recordings and his collaborative recordings with the acclaimed Four Men and a Dog, with the Maritin O’Connor Trio, and more recently with Christy Moore, have become standard bearers for emerging musicians over the last twenty years.

Described as one the foremost Fiddle and Banjo players of his generation, his long-awaited debut Banjo CD ‘Hooked on Banjo’ was launched at the Bantry Fleadh 2016 to great acclaim. Siobhan Long from the Irish Times described the CD as ‘a force to be reckoned with, complex and elegant in equal measure and a very fine snapshot of a musician in full swing’. Christy Moore shares a similar opinion - ‘a beautiful album with tunes carefully chosen to form a perfect mixture of old and new’.

The Workshop:

We are delighted to co-host this workshop with Belfast TradFest.

For more information and booking:

www.belfasttraditionalmusic.com/workshops-2022/tbc-music-masterclass-cathal-hayden-banjo-venue-tbc