2nd 'Berklee in Dublin' - apply SOON!

Thanks to Nick Balkin of Berklee College of Music, Boston, Mass., for this welcome news:

Boston's renowned Berklee College of Music presents its second annual 'Berklee in Dublin' event, a week of improvisation workshops and scholarship auditions, 5-11 April 2010, at Newpark Music Centre, Newtownpark Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.

The application deadline is Friday 19 March. Apply here.

Ties between Berklee and Ireland have never been stronger. Dublin native Matt Halpin is the recipient of Berklee's highest honor, the full-ride Presidential Scholarship, and is an inaugural member of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, the college's new center for musical creativity and global activism. Grammy-winning Riverdance composer Bill Whelan serves on Berklee's board of trustees. In 2007, U2's The Edge was awarded an honorary degree by the college.

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As mentioned in the BIB posts of March and April 2009, Berklee covers improvisation in all genres of music and has a distinguished and strongly bluegrass-friendly faculty.

Update 23 Feb.: The teenage mandolin phenomenon Sierra Hull is now in the first year of her presidential scholarship at Berklee. A snatch of her new DVD on AcuTab is on the Bluegrass Blog today.