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Flying Irish Feiseanna

All Flying Irish Feiseanna are Open Platform. We are members of Rince Tua Nua.

Flying Irish Feiseanna do not have an 8 bar wait between solo dancers.

A dancer's age is the age they will be on the day of the feis.

The feis year starts in Sept. An even year would be Sept 2022-August 2023; an odd year would be Sept 2023-August 2024.

Tir na nOg: Through competitive age 6.

  • Reel (124) - 16 bars

  • Light Jig (116) - 16 bars


Beginner (will be counted in)

  • Reel (124)

  • Light Jig (116)

  • Slip Jig (124)

  • Single Jig (124)

  • Treble Jig (92) - 16 bars

  • Championship Event: Reel & Light Jig


Intermediate (counted in up through age 10)

  • Reel (113)

  • Light Jig (116)

  • Slip Jig (113)

  • Single Jig (120) 

  • Treble Jig (92)

  • Hornpipe (138)

  • St Patrick's Day (94)

  • Championship Event: Reel, Light Jig, Treble Jig

             
Novice

  • Reel (113)

  • Slip Jig (113)

  • Single Jig (120)

  • Treble Jig (73)

  • Hornpipe (113)

  • Trad Sets: Jockey to the Fair (92), Blackbird (144)

  • Treble Reel 118 - 16 bars

  • Championship Event: Reel, Hornpipe, Jockey (even years); Slip Jig, Treble Jig, Blackbird (odd years)

 

Prizewinner

  • Reel (113)

  • Slip Jig (113)

  • Single Jig (120)

  • Treble Jig (73)

  • Hornpipe (113)

  • Trad Sets: Three Sea Captains (96), Job of the Journeywork (138)

  • Treble Reel 118 - 16 bars

  • Championship Event: Reel, Hornpipe, Three Sea (even years); Slip Jig, Treble Jig, Job (odd years)
     

Champion 

  • Reel (113) - 40 bars

  • Slip Jig (113)

  • Single Jig (120)

  • Treble Jig (73)

  • Hornpipe (113)

  • Trad Sets: White Blanket 138; Garden of Daises 138; King of the Fairies 130

  • Treble Reel 118 - 16 bars

  • Grade Event - soft shoe for the year, hard shoe in contrasting tempo to the non-trad set & non-trad set dance

  • Championship Event - soft shoe (Slip Jig in feis seasons starting in even years, Reel in odd feis years), hard shoe, non-trad set of choice (must be contrasting tempo to hard shoe round)

Preliminary Champion - Offered at Championships only (once a dancer wins first in a Preliminary or in any Open Champion Event, regardless of the number of competitors or adjudicators, they can no longer enter Prelim)

  • Reel (113)

  • Non-trad Set of Choice

By attending Flying Irish Feiseanna, you agree to release and forever discharge Flying lrish, LLC, its heirs, successors, administrators, instructors and assigns, including sponsoring and affiliated organizations for any and all claims, action, causes of action or liability for any and all losses, whether based on allegations of negligence or not, resultant from the your family's participation (as a dancer or a spectator) in its programs and events connected with the activities of Flying lrish, LLC. Permission is given for The Flying lrish, LLC, and its affiliations to use dancers' images for publicity reasons on the Internet, in print, or on video. We reserve the right to deny admission to anyone.

There are no refunds, transfers or credits for any funds associated with Flying Irish events.

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New England Championships*

*Qualifying Championship for RTN Nationals, CRDM All Ireland & World Championships

April 13, 2024

Townsend, MA

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Dancers must be present and in costume to accept their awards. Awards will not be given to another competitor or a teacher.

Champion & Prelim dancers must provide their own dongle for set dance music played on a bluetooth device.

RTN music can be found on the Feis & Beat apps:

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the Beat app logo
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