Harry Martin Heritage Arts Studio Classes

This page is continually updated as classes are scheduled. To get specific class info click the name of the class you are interested in.

If you wish to take any class, please:

  1. E-mail [email protected] to pre-register and then,
  2. Put a check payable to Blackstone River Theatre in the mail ASAP to: Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad Street, Cumberland, Rhode Island 02864. Payment via credit card option will be implemented by early 2025.

Through the Harry Martin Heritage Arts Studio initiative, Blackstone River Theatre pursues arts education outreach by offering classes and workshops at the theatre with respected performers and teachers. These classes allow the community to discover or reconnect with traditional art forms (music, song, dance, folk, visual and literary arts) and become participants in our regional arts heritage.

 

What is the Harry Martin Heritage Arts Studio?

Learn more about the renaming of its educational arts initiative as the Harry Martin Heritage Arts Studio.

Classes

Fiddle
Tuesday Fiddle and Thursday Fiddle classes with Cathy Clasper-Torch
5-string banjo
Beginner, Cont. Beginner & intermediate/advanced group classes with Ed Sweeney
Adult Irish Step Dance
Continuing Beginner Level 1 & 2 group classes for adults with Kevin Doyle
Ukulele
Continuing beginner, and intermediate group classes available with Armand Aromin
Singing Traditional Songs
Monthly group singing workshops with differing themes with Aubrey Atwater
Celtic Stone Carving
Fall and spring two-day workshops (12 hours) with Laura Travis
Irish Whistle
Workshops in beginner and continuing Irish whistle with Aubrey Atwater
Bodhran (Irish Drum)
Beginner, continuing, intermediate classes with Kyle Forsthoff
Dulcimer
Workshops in beginner and continuing mountain dulcimer with Aubrey Atwater
Clogging
Workshops in beginner freestyle flatfoot clogging with Aubrey Atwater
Rhythm Bones
Workshops in beginner, continuing rhythm bones with Dean Robinson
Tap Dance
Beginner & continuing group tap classes/workshops for adults with Kevin Doyle
Guitar
Continuing beginner finger style group workshop with Ed Sweeney
Irish Step Dance
Tir Na Nog Irish Dance offers many different classes in hard shoe, soft shoe and troupe for different ages and experience levels.

Harry’s House

Listen to the waltz “Harry’s House” commissioned by Blackstone River Theatre to honor Harry Martin and composed and performed by Hanneke Cassel.