Online registration for the 2025 Northeast Tionól will open in July 2025.
Please note that you need to arrange your accommodations directly with Gavin’s, and they often sell out before we open registration. If you want a room at Gavin’s for the tionól, we recommend that you reserve a room (which includes all meals) with them as soon as you can; call them at 518-634-2582. The dates for the 2025 tionól are October 17-19 (most people stay over on the Sunday night and leave Monday morning).
If you want to make a donation to the tionól, please use the link below; our registration software can’t handle donations. Thank you! Donations are tax-deductible. We will send you a receipt for your records.
Good morning,
I need to cancel my registration for 2024 Tionol due to a medical emergency. I registered early bird for $190. I wanted to ask: is there a way to apply my registration fee towards next year’s Tionol 2025? If not, please let me know how I can receive the refund. Please contact me via email listed in this submission. Thank you for your help.
Hi Andrew — I’ll get back to you via email shortly!
-Brad Hurley
Is there a way to attend on Sunday only, and attend one of the workshops that is not full?
Hi Brian, yes you can do that. If you arrive in time for the open meeting with the Tionól board at 1pm to 1:30 pm in the Tea Room, please come there and ask for Hallie Stokes. If you arrive after that, please look for her in the reedmaking workshop with Benedict Koehler, which will be held in room 36.
Thanks… is there by chance a prorated rerated for just Sunday?
Hi Brian — the only event on Sunday is the workshops (and the Piper’s Chair concert, which is free). So if you’re only coming on Sunday and attending a workshop, you pay the “workshop only” rate, which is $70.
Good evening,
I registered already, but I wanted to ask: what is the Tionol’s cancellation policy in the event I was unable to attend?
Thanks for asking; we will add this info to our website. If you cancel before online registration closes, we’ll give a 100% refund. After that it’s 50% until the Friday of the tionól, at which point no refund. However, we can be flexible in special circumstances, which we’ll consider on a case-by-case basis.
I have submitted a new message, but I also wanted to reply to my original inquiry to ensure it is addressed. Please assist at your earliest convenience, thank you
Good morning, I need to cancel my registration for 2024 Tionol due to a medical emergency. I registered early bird for $190. I wanted to ask: is there a way to apply my registration fee towards next year’s Tionol 2025? If not, please let me know how I can receive the refund. Please contact me via email listed in this submission. Thank you for your help.
The registration page seem to only show the $60 workshop-only ticket, and has no option for the full registration. Is there a problem or am I doing something wrong?
Hi Conor, sorry that was a glitch in the settings of our registration app; it’s fixed now. The Early Bird $190 price is available until 11:30 pm today (August 20).
Thanks Brad. Also, so I can know what time/day to get in (I have to arrive late in the evening due to travelling from the Southwest), do the actual piping/workshop activities start on the 18th, or is there just a social or something like that that evening, with festivities commencing the next day?
Hi Bryant — the classes don’t start until Saturday morning. Friday evening we’ll have the first of two concerts (of instructors; one set of instructors will perform on Friday night and the others will perform on Saturday night). And there’ll be a slow session after the concert. Those are the only activities that occur on the Friday. We’ll post the schedule later this month, but in a nutshell Friday evening has an instructor concert and slow session, classes are on Saturday morning and afternoon, Saturday night is another concert of instructors, then on Sunday we have workshops in the afternoon (sometimes a lecture in the late morning as well), and then Sunday evening is the “Piper’s Chair” concert that’s like a sign-up open mic, where students and other participants get to perform if they want to.
Thanks for the prompt reply Brad — that all makes sense.
Hi Bryant — you should definitely book your room, as Gavin’s often sells out even before we open registration (although if that happens there are other places nearby, such as Shamrock House, where you can stay). We do have an upper limit but have never reached it and I don’t anticipate reaching it this year either, so don’t worry about that. See you in October!