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August Week II Flute & Pennywhistle

Jim DiCarlo

Instrument: Flute & Pennywhistle
Session(s): August Week II, June Week, June Weekend II
Instrument by Session(s): August Week II Flute & Pennywhistle, June Week Flute & Pennywhistle, June Weekend II Flute & Pennywhistle

A self-described “tune hound,” Jim DiCarlo has been playing Irish music on whistle and wooden flute for contra dances, at sessions, and in the hallways of music festivals for the past 25 years.  He loves learning new tunes and has even composed a few of passable quality.  A long-time member of the Maine-based, not-entirely-traditional group Wake the Neighbors, he played alongside Lissa Schneckenburger, John Cote, Jessie & Greg Boardman, Ed Howe, Anthony Shostak and Alfred Lund.  (more…)

Sharon Pyne

Instrument: Flute & Pennywhistle
Session(s): August Week I, August Week II, June Week, June Weekend I, June Weekend II, VMFC - Feb 2021
Instrument by Session(s): August Week I Flute & Pennywhistle, August Week II Flute & Pennywhistle, June Week Flute & Pennywhistle, June Weekend I Flute & Pennywhistle, June Weekend II Flute & Pennywhistle, Whistlers

Sharon has been a student of tin whistle and wooden flute since 1977 when she attended the Willy Clancy Summer School while working in Ireland for the year. On her return to Boston to care for her grandmother, she studied with master flute players in the Hanafin /Cooley Comhalthus branch. She move to Maine to raise her children and became a member of the Portland Ceili Band and Ladies of the Lake. She runs a music studio in Bath, Maine where she teaches flute and whistle and Music Together. For a few months every year since 2000, she happily lives and breathes Maine Fiddle alongside director Doug Protsik.  Sharon can be contacted at sharonpynemusic@gmail.com or 207-522-3900.

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