What Can I Study in 2025?

Each year, the Festival will feature these six core disciplines: Fiddle, Guitar, Piano, Flute, Dance, and Community Singing. In addition to our core disciplines, we include additional disciplines each year. In 2025, we will also offer: Bodhran, Bouzouki, Harp and Mandolin.

Here are the groups we will be offering for each discipline in 2025:

• Fiddle – Moose, Seals, Bears, Eagles
• Guitar – Moose, Seals, Bears, Eagles
• Dance – Moose, Seals, Bears, Eagles

• Piano – Seals, Bears, Eagles
• Flute – Seals, Bears, Eagles
• Bouzouki – Seals, Bears, Eagles

• Community Singing – One group for all singers (regardless of experience)
  
• Bodhran – Seals & Bears together, Eagles
• Harp – Seals & Bears together, Eagles
• Mandolin – Seals & Bears together, Eagles

Click the buttons below to read more and choose the group where you’re going to dance, play, and sing your best!

Please refer to the Schedule Overview to see a “day at a glance.”

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Note: For those just wanting to attend the festival in afternoons and evenings, daily/weekly passes for workshops and concerts will be available for purchase at a later date.

Also note: The AFTMD is programmed for students who are 12 years of age and older.  Certain exceptions may be made for children younger than 12 years who are especially promising and dedicated. If you would like to discuss such an exception with the artistic team, please contact our Festival Director.