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From reels to relationships: Inside Norwood’s Riley School of Irish Music

From the moment a student steps inside Grace Methodist Church on Slane Avenue in Norwood on a Saturday morning, the bright lift of Irish reels spills throughout the hallways as a greeting. Fiddles test out quick runs of melody. A bodhrán, an Irish drum, taps out a steady pulse; on the church’s top floor, a piano in the hallway plunks out a section of a tune with an accordion. For a few hours most Saturdays,…