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    Apprentice Biography

    Douglas Barr

    Douglas Barr has been an instrumental music teacher at Totten Intermediate School 34
    on Staten Island for the past 33 years. He has also been a conductor with the Salute To Music
    program for 30 years and has conducted several times in Carnegie Hall with this group.
    He has played the concertina extensively in the NY/NJ area for the past 11 years.
    He was the regular host of a session in the pub Slainte, and has hosted sessions at the Landmark
    Inn in Manhattan, Saint James Gate and the Kilkenny House, and at the Irish American Association of
    Northwest Jersey (IAANJ). He is now one of the hosts of a session he started on Staten Island at the
    Wild Goose Pub
    He has recorded with the guitarist Iris Nevins and can be heard on her CD “Celtic Guitar
    Dreams”. He also hosted and recorded a live session at the Irish American Association of Northwest
    Jersey (IAANJ).
    In 2010 Mr. Barr along with flute player Linda Hickman, applied for and received a grant from
    The Council on the Arts & Humanities of Staten Island (COAHSi) to bring an Irish music session, which
    was lacking, to Staten Island. The session is to date is continuing past the grant funding.
    Mr. Barr was the curator and one of the performers in a very successful concert “An Evening of
    Irish Traditional Music, Song and Dance with Special guest Monsignor Charles Coen” on Staten Island in
    October 2010.
    Mr. Barr will also be involved with Christopher J. Mulé, Deputy Director & Director of Folklife
    Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI) and The National Endowment for the Arts
    to create a traveling exhibit of folklife on Staten Island.

    Discography

    2005 Iris Nevins, Celtic Guitar Dreams: Private issue

    2011 The Best of IAANJ Session, Volume 55, Doug Barr: Private issue

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