Third Annual Irish Trad Session at AirVenture!

[mcdewey]

Are you excited about flying? Are you excited about traditional Irish music? Are you especially excited about both flying and Irish music? This year at AirVenture 2025, the Flying Musicians Association is hosting the third annual trad seisiún on Thursday night.


All attendees are welcome, especially those who play an instrument associated with Irish music—be it fiddle, tin whistle, uilleann pipes, concertina, button accordion, bodhrán, guitar, banjo, or mandolin. We’re inviting musicians of all skill levels, and we’ll find some tunes for you to join in. We’ll even have sheet music for playing along and lyric sheets for singing along!

For those who perform Irish dance—be it céilí dance, step dance, or anything else—you’re welcome to join the fun. Maybe rope in some spectators and show them how it’s done!

Finally, for those who don’t dance or play an instrument, come on down! We need enthusiastic clappers, foot stompers, and cheerers.
This is our chance to show off some Irish music and culture at the world’s greatest aviation gathering—and have a fantastic time together!

To allow folks to get a head start on the music, I’m putting up the lyrics and sheet music at https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...ZS?usp=sharing. It’s read-only. I’ll be adding sheet music for the trad tunes soon and a proposed “kick off the evening” set list.

[mcdewey]

Oh, and here's a poster.

[rwanttaja]

*Damn*, I'd like to go to that.

Ron "No, nay, never" Wanttaja

[mcdewey]

We'd love to have you rove over and join us!

[skyfixer8]

Where on the grounds will this be ?

[steve]

In the Ultralight forum tent next to the Ultralight Red Barn and west of the Ultralight wayfinding tower.

[mcdewey]

I've put up the proposed set list at the google drive site. I'm working on getting the music for the trad tunes up at the site.