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David James, 2002
(three-time)
All-Ireland Champion,
is the first American ever to win solo All-Ireland Championships on the
hammered dulcimer, at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, Sligo in 1989
and then Listowel, in Ireland, in 1995 and 2002. He was featured in the
official Fleadh 1995 video. He was the U.S. National Hammered
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David
also plays fiddle, bouzouki, guitar, banjo, concertina, sings, and writes
songs. He has taught Irish dulcimer in workshops and master classes from
coast to coast, the first to pioneer many unique techniques on that
instrument. In 1989 he was awarded a Master Folk Artist Fellowship by the
Indiana Arts Commission. David’s latest album CD, entitled The Lone
Man’s Path, was released June 2002, featuring 11 tunes (three of which
are his own compositions) and 7 songs (3 of his own), with David on vocal,
hammered dulcimer, fiddle, keyboards, bouzouki, guitar and accordeon,
joined by Kim Hoffmann on vocals, bodhrán and whistle, Ethan James and Dan
Broder on guitars.. He teaches fiddle, dulcimer, bodhrán (Irish drum) and
whistle at World Folk Music Company on 103rd Street in Chicago,
and at St. Patrick’s Celtic Center in South Bend, Indiana, where he also
makes his home.
Kim Hoffmann plays tin
whistle, bodhrán, guitar and sings. Kim is the 1998 Midwest Fleadh
Cheoil champion on the tin whistle, and a former first place winner in
Singing in English, Slow Airs, Trio and Bodhrán competitions. Kim was a
finalist in 1995 in Ireland at the All-Ireland Championships in the Tin
Whistle, Tin Whistle Slow Airs, and the Women’s singing categories. She
was a finalist in the 2002 Listowel (Ireland) Fleadh Cheoil in
Women’s Singing and on piano with the Chicago Ceili Band. She teaches
workshops at festival events on tin whistle and bodhrán. Kim is also an
award-winning visual artist, and lives in South Bend, Indiana. She was
among five persons nominated for 1993 Woman of the Year in the Arts by the
South Bend YWCA. She was an Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist
Grant winner in 2000.
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