The Riley School of Irish Music opened for classes in January of 1996. The founder of the School, Susan Cross, started the school in memory of her mother, Elsie Riley Goodman. We teach students aged 8 to 80 how to play music in the Irish traditions.

Classes are held on Saturdays, beginning at 9:30 a.m. at

in the Columbia-Tusculum area of Cincinnati.

The classes are taught on a quarterly basis. Most students pay $150 for the quarter, which is 10 weeks long. Students attend small group classes and band rehearsal (or slow jam for beginners). Beginning fiddle students receive 30-min. private lessons.

Each student or family is given a compact disc containing the tunes to be learned during the quarter. The student should listen to the CD and become as familiar as possible with the tunes. The tunes are then taught slowly in class, along with style and phrasing.

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