New This Year:

  • Three Piping Instructors of awesome caliber.
  • Full Day program for Beginners
  • Registrations will be limited to maintain an appropriate instructor to student ratio.
  • Classes will be in 1.5-hour blocks - geared toward participant levels.
  • Piping Chair opportunities during lunch
  • Session times added to the schedule 
  • Salad option for Lunch this year


All participants must have their own pipes.  Intermediate and Advanced pipers should work to ensure their entire kit is in acceptable playing condition.  Beginners will be assisted - as able - on-site to address issues with their chanter reed.  

Date:    Nov. 2, 2024

Location: Charlottesville Waldorf School Classrooms/Music Room. Get Directions

Schedule:  (participants will be sent a complete schedule closer to the event)

Check-in           9:30-10:00 am

Classes                10-4:30 pm

Evening Concert        7pm        

If you have question, please contact Piping Coordinator Randy Seelye. [email protected]

Registration Options

  • Learning basic skills, developing auditory skills, takes more time to learn, has learned 20 tunes or less; (not playing drones or regulators)

  • able to tune and maintain instrument; working on tune intermediate
    ornamentation; can tune and play drones; starting or ready to start regulators if equipped)

  • Good auditory learner; Can pick up tunes quickly, working on
    advanced ornamentation; regular drone play; Regular regulator play if pipes are equipped

($22.00/ea.)
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Our Instructors

Brandon Davis

Brandon been obsessed with uilleann piping for fifteen years and counting. As a youth, he started and excelled with Great Highland Pipes. He then added Small Pipes- and eventually Uilleann Pipes. He has had instruction from many world class pipers at Tionóls and Workshops in the US and Ireland. He has been hosting a local Irish session in Roanoke VA for thirteen years now and also host a slow session for the past four years. He has taught Pipes and Reeds a the last tew BRIMS Tionól. He is currently a member of the Star City Céilí Band playing various tin whistles and Uilleann Pipes.

Eamonn Dillon

Born in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Uilleann Piper and whistle player Eamonn has toured and recorded both as a solo artist and with a varied group of performers, touring shows and bands. Working between the US, Canada and Europe , his music has been featured on several film and television programs around the world. He has performed and recorded as a featured artist in both traditional , theatrical and mixed genre ensembles, including Needfire, John McDermott, (The Irish Tenors,) Celtic Bridge, King James, Sarah Packium, & Paloma Faith amongst others. He first learned the tin whistle from his father, and Tara Diamond, before getting his first set of Uilleann Pipes, made by the great master Sean McAloon, who mentored him while starting out.

Patrick D’Arcy

Patrick hails from Dublin, Ireland. As a young man, he started his learning journey with the help of Na Píobairí Uilleann – the Dublin piping club, as well as attending classes and various Tionóil - including the West Coast Tionól and also the Willie Clancy Summer School in Miltown Malbay, Ireland. He is the creator of UilleannObsession.com and a founding member of the Southern California Pipers Club. Now living in Nashville Tennessee! In the early 2020’s, he had the opportunity to host an online uilleann pipe specific talk show called PIPER SUNDAY for the So Cal Pipers Club. He has written music for TV and played with many folk and pop performers. Patrick tours regularly both in the US and internationally teaching workshops and performing.

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