Learn Sean-Nós (Old Style) Irish Singing with Autumn Rhodes

Tuesday March 19th, 7-8:30pm

at location tbc

$20 adults

$15 Sudbury Irish Assoc members

$10 youth

All welcome, no singing or Irish language experience required!

Sean-nós singing (/ˈʃænoʊs/ SHAN-ohss, Irish: [ˈʃan̪ˠ n̪ˠoːsˠ]; Irish for "old style") is unaccompanied traditional Irish vocal music usually performed in the Irish language. Sean-nós singing usually involves very long melodic phrases with highly ornamented and melismatic melodic lines, differing greatly from traditional folk singing elsewhere in Ireland, although there is significant regional variation within Ireland. Sean-nós songs cover a range of genres, from love song to lament to lullaby, traditionally with a strong focus on conveying the relevant emotion of the given song. The term sean-nós, which simply means "in the old way", is a vague term that can also refer to various other traditional activities, musical and non-musical.

Find out more about Sean-nós singing;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean-n%C3%B3s_singing

https://comhaltas.ie/music/treoir/detail/amhranaiocht_ar_an_sean_nos/

About Autumn

Autumn Rhodes was raised in a household full of Irish music.  At the age of 12, while living in rural Indiana, she was given a tin whistle for a birthday present and took to it right away. She hasn’t looked back - she started performing professionally the next year and hasn’t stopped since. Throughout the years she’s toured throughout the United States with bands such as Soltré, Míra, The Colleens, Purest Green, Edington, Barton, & Rhodes, The Bardic Apostles, Kennedy’s Kitchen, and The Wrenboys; she has played for various Irish dance groups including Siamsa, Celtic Fire, and Kaleidoscope, and has partnered up with Julie Henigan, Maldon Meehan, Susan Mashiyama, among others.

She now lives in San Francisco where she teaches music and performs with several bands and individual performers.

www.autumnrhodes.com