Performance Ready Tunes
Arranged & Played by All Ireland Champion Musicians

At the Irish Trad Academy, we draw on decades of competition experience and performance-focused teaching. We take core traditional tunes and shape them with your stage performance in mind.

Our tutors teach top-tier competition material, carefully crafted with ornamentation and tasteful variations.

Our performers are seasoned traditional musicians, many holding multiple All-Ireland titles across a range of instruments.

Every Angle Covered

Using multiple camera angles and the latest online music teaching tech, we bring you the highest quality, most immersive learning experience.

HD video lessons

Scrolling notation in stave, ABCs and TAB

Multiple camera angles

Tools to slow down, zoom in, or loop sections

Fully transcribed including all ornaments, slides, pull offs, triplets, double stops

Decades of Experience

Meet Enda Scahill, Director of the Irish Trad Academy and lead course producer.

A multiple-time All-Ireland Champion, founder of We Banjo 3, and recipient of the prestigious Steve Martin Banjo Prize, Enda is recognised internationally as one of the foremost innovators in Irish traditional music.

With decades of performing, recording, and teaching behind him, Enda has built a reputation for producing some of the highest-quality banjo and mandolin instruction available today through his site IrishBanjoLessons.com.

Across platforms, Enda has cultivated a vibrant learning community, attracting over 10,000 YouTube followers and more than 2,000 Patreon subscribers. His approach blends cutting-edge technology with deep musical knowledge to create immersive, expertly structured lessons that help students progress quickly and confidently.

Meet George Grasso, Galway-based multi-instrumentalist

A gifted player of uilleann pipes, guitar, flute, bouzouki, banjo and many more, George brings decades of experience as both performer and teacher. He is also the Academy’s lead transcriber, creating all of the high-quality musical transcriptions used in our courses.

George has a deep knowledge of the tradition, combined with his sharp ear and versatile musicianship.