Milwaukee Irish Fest Summer School Instructors
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Enda Scahill
Instructor Website: https://irishbanjolessons.com/
Teaching Irish Tenor Banjo (T-W-Th)
Enda is the 2022 winner of the prestigious Steve Martin Banjo Award.
Enda is the founding member of Billboard #1 mega band We Banjo 3. He has performed live with The Chieftains, Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Carlos Nunez, and Eileen Ivers, has recorded with Grammy winners Ricky Skaggs, Bryan Sutton and Aubrey Haynie, toured with Frankie Gavin and Stockton’s Wing, and was an original member of Instrumental Band of the Decade The Brock McGuire Band
Galway born banjo player Enda Scahill is one of the most critically acclaimed banjoists in Ireland today. Enda has long established himself as one of the finest exponents of traditional Irish banjo playing and is widely recognised for his technical prowess and banjo teaching abilities.
In 2008 Enda published his first Irish Tenor Banjo Tutorial book. This was the first ever pedagogical approach to banjo teaching and it laid out in simple terms the essential foundation techniques for good banjo playing Professor Mick Moloney wrote “Enda’s tutor is masterfully conceived, the product of years of playing and thoughtful reflection”. The tutor is now the top selling Irish banjo tutorial on the market. Enda then released Volume II of his banjo tutorial series which takes an in-depth look at creating a unique playing style and musicianship using techniques such as ornamentation, variation, harmony and rhythmical ideas.
In his foreword to the tutorial books, the late Professor Mick Moloney of NYU said
“Enda Scahill is a gifted banjo player blessed with extraordinary technique”