To sign up for our music classes AS A NEW MEMBER, please complete the registration form.
To RENEW for Terms 2 and 3, click here.
To find out more, contact us here.
Armagh Pipers Club has provided Irish traditional music education since 1966. For 2021-22, it offers up to 40 courses, covering eight instruments and singing, at up to four levels. If you are joining as a new student, you can register here. The first term (September-December 2021) consists of nine lessons and costs £100, with discounts as follows: two students from the same household £175, three £225, four or more £275. The second term (eleven lessons, same cost) runs from January to Easter, and the short third term, to mid-June, is free of charge for all students.
All the lessons are on Monday evening, 7-8pm and 8-9pm in the Irish-medium unit (lower block) of St Catherine’s College, Armagh.
For accordion, banjo, concertina, fiddle, flute, harp, tin whistle and uilleann pipes, classes will be provided at four levels. Level 1 is for complete beginners. Level 2 is for junior students who have been playing for at least year or two, so they will have a few tunes learned off. Level 3 is for intermediate students, roughly at Grade 4 in terms of the London College of Music exam structure. Level 4 is for advanced students, LCM Grade 6 and above.
We also offer adult tin whistle and adult fiddle classes. Adult students who have reached at least Level 3 are welcome to join the adult session multi-instrument class, open to anyone who can play jigs and reels.
Finally, we offer junior singing classes (Level 1/2) and advanced singing (Level 3/4).
All our classes are provided by experienced tutors, most of whom have been with the Pipers Club for years. Class sizes are kept small to ensure individual attention in the Zoom lessons and, when circumstances permit, face-to-face.
The Club facilitates access to the London College of Music examination system, enabling students to gain formal qualifications which can count towards third-level entrance points.
Payment options: you can pay the appropriate fee on our Shop page, or simply by using the “donate” button on this page. However payments through the website are processed by a company that charges us a small fee, so from our point of view, it is best if you could transfer the amount direct to our bank account: Armagh Pipers Club, sort code 98-01-90, account 12884667, using the student’s name as the payment reference. If you are unable to pay online, please call 07712 809933 to make other arrangements. Please do not come into the school to pay on class nights; you may send a payment in with the student if they arrive at least 20 minutes before class time.