Mickey (Michelle) Stewart

Bodhran

  • Drumming experience: 42 years
  • Course Creator: BodhránExpert Platinum Membership – Level 1 & Keepers Of the Rhythm (Level 2, 3 & 4) with students from 40+ countries
  • My YouTube videos are watched in every country in the world
  • 11 Time #1 International Best-Selling Author
  • Coach to world-class musicians and dancers (including 4x Grammy Nominee)
  • TV and Film Artist
  • Former Bodhrán maker
  • In the mid-90‘s I moved to Scotland to play snare with the Grade 1 Vale Of Atholl Pipe Band under Five-Time World Drum Corps Champion Jim King. During that time I recorded the album ‘Live ‘N Well’ with the Vale and performed throughout Scotland, England, Germany, Brittany, and the Czech Republic.
  • I teach a variety of percussion, (pipe band snare, bass, tenor, drum kit and bodhrán) at schools in Perthshire, Scotland.
  • Been running the drum programme at Ardvreck School since 2002, ran the Pipe Band Drumming programme at Morrison’s Academy for fourteen years and taught bodhrán at the prestigious Glenalmond College.
  • Bodhrán Instructor at the Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic College in Cape Breton for over 25 years.
  • I have taught bodhrán to young, up and coming traditional musicians through the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama’s YouthWorks Program (now the Royal Conservatoire Of Scotland) and students of from ages 4 to 94 at summer programmes of the Pacific Institute Of Piping and Celtic Performing Arts on Vancouver Island, Canada and at numerous music camps throughout the UK and North America.
  • I believe teaching is my superpower with thousands of drum students having been through my classroom.

Summer Adult Session 1