Dave Boyd Musician
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Dave has been playing and teaching bodhrán for over 30 years - learning his craft and tunes in hundreds of traditional sessions throughout Ireland and Scotland. He has toured and recorded with North Atlantic Trio, and played with many notable traditional musicians - Luke Plumb, Ashley MacIsaac, Angus R Grant, Ross Ainslie, Isaac Muller and Siard De Jong, among others. 

Beyond traditional music, he has a particular interest in the place of bodhrán as a part of the wider family of frame drums and how it relates particularly to the Italian tamburello, Middle Eastern Tof Miriam, South Indian Kanjra, North African Bendir and Persian Daf. He has studied with master drummers Zohar Fresco, Andrea Piccioni, Ganesh Kumar, Salim Belitane and Mohsen Taherzadeh and performs and teaches regularly at Tamburi Mundi Frame Drum festival sharing the stage with Glen Velez, Pete Lockett, Murat Coskun, and many others.

He brings this diverse experience to his new online project Bodhrán Beyond and 
to his teaching - which is focused in musicality, active listening and clear solutions to technical problems that players come across.
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​One to One Lessons via Skype, Zoom, or FaceTime can be arranged here 

‘an Irish percussive magician wielding the bodhrán’
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‘Dave Boyd is hugely supportive without being intrusive, effective to the Nth and no hint of over-playing… I’m convinced that if his tracks were removed, the remainder of whole would suffer.
Tasteful is probably the word I’m looking for’
Maverick Magazine
U​pcoming ONLINE Workshop/Classes

1st November 2020 1600GMT
World Rhythms for Bodhrán 
in Seven

15th November 2020
World Rhythms for Bodhrán in Nine

29th November 2020
World Rhythms for Bodhrán in Eleven
contact for lessons
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specially created pictorial notation for both hands
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    • BRÚ
    • THE SHIFTING UNITS
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