Murray Academy is again offering our popular 3-day Intro to Irish Dance mini camps this summer. Camps will be offered for ages 3½ to 5 and for ages 6-11. No prior experience needed. Come join us and let your little ones discover their love for Irish dance.
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We are so proud of how our dancers performed in Dublin at this year’s World Championships! Each of our dancers performed beautifully and professionally against the best of the best in his or her age group. In many of the age groups there were anywhere from 150-180 competitors. The stages were fantastic and the music couldn’t have been better; it was exciting to see dancers from literally all over the world come together in competition.
The dancers’ hard work leading up to the event was impressive and inspiring—please join me in extending a huge congratulations to these dancers and their parents, especially to our 4 dancers attending for the first time! Please find this year’s full competition summary here, including our medal winners below.
Top 20 World Medals
12th Fiona Marino. Ladies 18-19 (2nd World Medal) 14th Brielle Maguire, Girls 13-14 (4th World Medal)
Congratulations to our dancers who participated in the 2024 New England Region Oireachtas in Hartford, CT!
For the second year in a row, we had five New England Regional champions and four runners-up—a total of 15 soloists stood on the podium! Additionally, 22 of our soloists earned the right to compete at the World Championships in Dublin this spring!
Our Traditional Set dancers included 3 dancers on the podium, and 12 in the top 10 of their competitions. On the final day, we saw two of our teams take the top of the podium as champions with four runners-up and a total of 13 teams on the podium!
This was a very exciting year with another strong set of results for our school. We are so very proud of each of our dancers who competed at this year’s New England Oireachtas. It is always a joy seeing their hard work come to life on stage!
Special congratulations go to all our 1st place winners this year, including
U7 Boys Champion – Charlie Helling
U11 Girls Champion—Rowan Wong (x4)
U12 Girls Champion – Kelsey Lema (x2)
U18 Girls Champion—Fiona Marino
U19 Ladies Champion – Charlotte McDaniel (x2)
U12 Mixed 4-Hand Team A-Brielle Hadley, Amelia Jenness, Aly Philbrick and Finley Picanco
U12 Ceili – Orla Bolduc, Pippi Cole, Marley Gagne, Caroline Ganly, Kelsey Lema, Leah Rowe, Maggie Sierpien and Rowan Wong
What a great Oireachtas for the Murray Academy dancers!
Please see the full results summary herefor all the highlights, including the dancers who are now qualified to compete at the World Championships in Dublin this April.
We are so happy with our dancers’ performances at the 2024 North American Championships held in Grapevine, TX! They worked extremely hard leading up to the event and performed well under pressure in large/highly competitive groups, against dancers from overseas as well as Austrailia, Canada and Mexico! Some of the highlights were:
A very special shout out to Brielle Maguire, 1st place, Girls U13A Champion! She has stayed in the top 3 since attending her first North Americans as an Under 8— what an amazing track record!!
A huge congrats to Ava Krueger, 4th place in Girls U16B and Fiona Marino, 5th place, Ladies U18A, for reaching the podium for their second time each at a North Americans…fantastic dancing!
Another special acknowledgement goes to our podium-placing Under 16 Team of eight who came in 4th. We selected this team to attend, based on their performance at the Regionals, and they did not disappoint—excellent job!
Overall, there were many personal best performances and placements. We had 76% of our dancers recall, 7 of which were top 10 and 17 in the top 20. 😊 Additionally, 38% of our dancers placed highly enough to qualify for the World Championships in Dublin in 2025—our best yet!
Find the list of participating dancers and summary of resultshere.
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