Herself had never been on a Cruise, had a couple of weeks before returning to her classroom full of smiling young faces and raging hormones- and needless to say woefull lack of undersanding about the use of deodorant.
Anyway. Took a boat to Nova Scotia.
Collected a bunch of CD's some good, some bad, some in between.
Most 'interesting' one was Eddie Coffey and The Coffey-Mates. 'Come Closer Eastcoaster'! Certainly not one the of High visibility international ensembles....
Anyone else come across local/small distribution cds in their travels?
If Herself the English Teacher reads this thread I will hear about what sorts I frequent with for the rest of my like......added into her comments about the sorts I have frequented with previously.
Lyme disease is no joke..Having worked deep in the forest all summer bucking up logs I have avoided 'getting got' by ticks..or punki as they are called here.. I have also managed to avoid making freinds as my crys of "get her bucked" b4 each new log pile has worrys the locals quite considerably..Grim recitation of various 90s pop songs while the saw is off does not help matters..but so far has kept the bears at bay
Our daughter got some obscure disease from ticks many years ago. She was in the hospital for over a month.
Oh and Trucks...If you think 90's music keeps bears away, you should try a bit of early 80's and disco. Keeps everything away except guys in plaid polyester jump suits.
Bears - yup. few clicks east of my current location in Lappenranta a woman was mauled by a Bear couple of weeks back. She survived and the Bear and two small cubs where trapped and shot. Which was just plain reactionary and wrong. There was prior knowledge of Mother and Cubs in the immediate area. But Hippy jogger woamn decides this does not affect her oneness with nature- proceeded to p*ss Mrs Bear off get a bite in the head - (run home!) -gurn a bit - and get the local Hillbilly Cops to put a bullet in the whole family.. My whole point is , 90s pop tunes aside, my proximity to this event makes me hardcore. as f##k.. In reality im a bag of nerves, the most dangerous animal in Ireland is probably Christy Moore.. Hope your daughter recovered fully, I have heard similar accounts, being from the city its easy to overlook things like that.
Joggers, ramblers, hill walkers, shoot the lot of them then feed them to the bears. Sorry to disappoint you, Trucks but Christy is no longer the most dangerous animal here, the tossers caged in stormont are, shooting and feeding to bears would be far too good for them, prolonged torture might suffice if it was done in public.
It would seem rude to totally hijack a thread.In relation to the initial poster query/comments Anyway.
"Took a boat to Nova Scotia.
Collected a bunch of CD's some good, some bad, some in between.
Most 'interesting' one was Eddie Coffey and The Coffey-Mates. 'Come Closer Eastcoaster'! Certainly not one the of High visibility international ensembles....
Anyone else come across local/small distribution cds in their travels?"
If you would be interested in a bit of virtuoso Cape Breton style fiddle playing mixed with Uillean Pipes try the "Neff Brothers - Soundpost and Bridle" they are from Cork and really push the boundaries both in terms of style and in what can be done on both instruments. Not sure of the label but its not a major one. They have two cds to my knowledge..
Also, thers an albu of Barry Kerrs from the 90s available online from his website-Colum Sands own label "the three sisters".. Raw flute playing, very exiting album. The website lets you down load it 3 times for some reason. In practice this means ye can phone a couple of mates, give them the acess code and they can download it from different locations..
Actaully Trucks....as you can tell by the ephemeral tone of my initial post, I fuly expected the thread to get hijacked several times.
It was a 'Monday morning' post. Get some conversation started on the lesser known players who make up 99% music. My greatest concern was the thread seeming negative or denigrating about Mr. Coffey. Granted, may not be the music we normally deal with, but he certainly has his heart in the right place if one looks at his web site, and had to expect some rolling eyes naming his band as he did.
And I suppose after several beers, we'd all be singing along with Come Closer East Coaster...and certainly with Black Velvet Band!
Just curious what other folks saw and watch where the conversation goes.
Im in Northern Finland not far from Oulu. Theres Black bears here too but Im talking about Brown bears or Grizzlys OR Kodiaks as they are also known..Having worked here for a while now, its seems the same strange phenomenon pervades Finnish Hillbilly language as it does tunes at some remote sessions.
" JUST BECAUSE YOU LOOK AT ME WITH GROWING EXPECTATION AND earnest INTENSITy WHISLT SPEAKING (playing) without GIVING ME A CHANCE TO TRY TO SPEAK - DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MEAN I KNOW WHAT THE F##K U ARE ON ABOUT".
Having reviews a few of the mustard boards recent offerings Im convinced things are going downhill so my post stops here for fear of making things worse
All in fun, Trucks, all in fun. You can't have too many bear reports on this website. The naturalists over on the more "Bear-centric" websites will strive for accuracy in their accounts. Here, one hopes, the narrators would be more inclined to indulge in invention.
Police have shot a bear that mauled a woman jogger in Lappeenranta on Friday. Cubs being protected by the bear were also shot. Experts say the cubs would have been unable to fend for themselves in the forest.
Authorities say the female jogger's injuries are not life-threatening.
Following the encounter in the Kasukkala-Sunila area, south-east of Lappeenranta, the bear headed toward the centre of town. The incident was reported shortly before 6 pm.
Police were assisted by frontier guard officers and 50 hunters in their search for the bear.
Encounters with bears are common in the South Karelia region. In Lappeenranta alone, 137 bear sightings have been reported to authorities this year.
In June 1998, a jogger was killed after startling a mother bear in Ruokolahti, some 50 km from Lappeenranta -- the first such fatality in the country in more than a century.
Cubs Unable to Fend for Themselves
According to Dr. Jonna Katajisto, who has studied bears and their movements, the cubs would probably not have been able to survive without their mother. Admitting their shooting gave rise to emotions, she added the cubs would not have survived alone in the forest. It would have been most unlikely for them to have made a winter nest without their mother’s help.
Putting the cubs in a zoo was not an alternative as bears needed a much larger environment in which to survive, she added.
I'm with you on this one: killing the bear was reactionary, and wrong. This is the same reasoning that sealed the fate of California's last Grizzly and her cubs, back in the 1920s. This recent situation not withstanding, are the browns in Finland still more or less thriving?
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Herself had never been on a Cruise, had a couple of weeks before returning to her classroom full of smiling young faces and raging hormones- and needless to say woefull lack of undersanding about the use of deodorant.
Anyway. Took a boat to Nova Scotia.
Collected a bunch of CD's some good, some bad, some in between.
Most 'interesting' one was Eddie Coffey and The Coffey-Mates. 'Come Closer Eastcoaster'! Certainly not one the of High visibility international ensembles....
Anyone else come across local/small distribution cds in their travels?
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by zippydw
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Could have been worse zippy, you could have went to the Catskills and got Lyme disease. Been quite the outbreak, apparently!
Eddie Coffey and The Coffee-Mates. HA! Love the name.
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
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'you could have went'?
Clearly, Ian, you've not been reading the language fascists thread!
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by MacCruiskeen
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"you could have went'?!
Constructions such as this seem to be quite common among Anglophone South Africans - maybe in parts of the US as well. 'Incorrect' English or dialect?
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by CreadurMawnOrganig
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Careful!
If Herself the English Teacher reads this thread I will hear about what sorts I frequent with for the rest of my like......added into her comments about the sorts I have frequented with previously.
Obviously an archaic form of the subjunctive!
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by zippydw
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Also....forgot to mention
They play alot of strathspeys. I didn't realize that until I started playing some of the CD's.
Eddie C. seems to play alot of polkas and waltzes with a heavy dose of Country Western guitar, backing his three row guerini.
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by zippydw
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And he has a website. http://www.eddiecoffey.ca/
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by zippydw
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heres a gem of a whistle album..(like f##k)..who said that??..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsXQYNBwI08
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by Miss Mulligan
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Lyme disease is no joke..Having worked deep in the forest all summer bucking up logs I have avoided 'getting got' by ticks..or punki as they are called here.. I have also managed to avoid making freinds as my crys of "get her bucked" b4 each new log pile has worrys the locals quite considerably..Grim recitation of various 90s pop songs while the saw is off does not help matters..but so far has kept the bears at bay
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by Miss Mulligan
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Bears?
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by Atahualpa Quigley
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Our daughter got some obscure disease from ticks many years ago. She was in the hospital for over a month.
Oh and Trucks...If you think 90's music keeps bears away, you should try a bit of early 80's and disco. Keeps everything away except guys in plaid polyester jump suits.
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by zippydw
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Bears - yup. few clicks east of my current location in Lappenranta a woman was mauled by a Bear couple of weeks back. She survived and the Bear and two small cubs where trapped and shot. Which was just plain reactionary and wrong. There was prior knowledge of Mother and Cubs in the immediate area. But Hippy jogger woamn decides this does not affect her oneness with nature- proceeded to p*ss Mrs Bear off get a bite in the head - (run home!) -gurn a bit - and get the local Hillbilly Cops to put a bullet in the whole family.. My whole point is , 90s pop tunes aside, my proximity to this event makes me hardcore. as f##k.. In reality im a bag of nerves, the most dangerous animal in Ireland is probably Christy Moore.. Hope your daughter recovered fully, I have heard similar accounts, being from the city its easy to overlook things like that.
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by Miss Mulligan
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Joggers, ramblers, hill walkers, shoot the lot of them then feed them to the bears. Sorry to disappoint you, Trucks but Christy is no longer the most dangerous animal here, the tossers caged in stormont are, shooting and feeding to bears would be far too good for them, prolonged torture might suffice if it was done in public.
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by strayaway
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remind me not to p*ss in your thermos..No Stormont talk if you will I am still on holidays
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by Miss Mulligan
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I'm a-fixin' to be done, gone and went, as a matter of fact!
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
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i see
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by Miss Mulligan
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It would seem rude to totally hijack a thread.In relation to the initial poster query/comments Anyway.
"Took a boat to Nova Scotia.
Collected a bunch of CD's some good, some bad, some in between.
Most 'interesting' one was Eddie Coffey and The Coffey-Mates. 'Come Closer Eastcoaster'! Certainly not one the of High visibility international ensembles....
Anyone else come across local/small distribution cds in their travels?"
If you would be interested in a bit of virtuoso Cape Breton style fiddle playing mixed with Uillean Pipes try the "Neff Brothers - Soundpost and Bridle" they are from Cork and really push the boundaries both in terms of style and in what can be done on both instruments. Not sure of the label but its not a major one. They have two cds to my knowledge..
Also, thers an albu of Barry Kerrs from the 90s available online from his website-Colum Sands own label "the three sisters".. Raw flute playing, very exiting album. The website lets you down load it 3 times for some reason. In practice this means ye can phone a couple of mates, give them the acess code and they can download it from different locations..
grand job
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by Miss Mulligan
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Actaully Trucks....as you can tell by the ephemeral tone of my initial post, I fuly expected the thread to get hijacked several times.
It was a 'Monday morning' post. Get some conversation started on the lesser known players who make up 99% music. My greatest concern was the thread seeming negative or denigrating about Mr. Coffey. Granted, may not be the music we normally deal with, but he certainly has his heart in the right place if one looks at his web site, and had to expect some rolling eyes naming his band as he did.
And I suppose after several beers, we'd all be singing along with Come Closer East Coaster...and certainly with Black Velvet Band!
Just curious what other folks saw and watch where the conversation goes.
Not terribly deep.
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by zippydw
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So are there bears in the Belfast backwoods then? Would they be black bears? Ours are western black bears, and usually very shy.
# Posted on August 3rd 2009 by Atahualpa Quigley
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Im in Northern Finland not far from Oulu. Theres Black bears here too but Im talking about Brown bears or Grizzlys OR Kodiaks as they are also known..Having worked here for a while now, its seems the same strange phenomenon pervades Finnish Hillbilly language as it does tunes at some remote sessions.
" JUST BECAUSE YOU LOOK AT ME WITH GROWING EXPECTATION AND earnest INTENSITy WHISLT SPEAKING (playing) without GIVING ME A CHANCE TO TRY TO SPEAK - DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MEAN I KNOW WHAT THE F##K U ARE ON ABOUT".
Having reviews a few of the mustard boards recent offerings Im convinced things are going downhill so my post stops here for fear of making things worse
..
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# Posted on August 5th 2009 by Miss Mulligan
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All in fun, Trucks, all in fun. You can't have too many bear reports on this website. The naturalists over on the more "Bear-centric" websites will strive for accuracy in their accounts. Here, one hopes, the narrators would be more inclined to indulge in invention.
# Posted on August 5th 2009 by Atahualpa Quigley
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in fairness Atahualpa - http://yle.fi/uutiset/news/2009/07/bear_shot_in_lappeenranta_after_mauling_jogger_844285.html
Police have shot a bear that mauled a woman jogger in Lappeenranta on Friday. Cubs being protected by the bear were also shot. Experts say the cubs would have been unable to fend for themselves in the forest.
Authorities say the female jogger's injuries are not life-threatening.
Following the encounter in the Kasukkala-Sunila area, south-east of Lappeenranta, the bear headed toward the centre of town. The incident was reported shortly before 6 pm.
Police were assisted by frontier guard officers and 50 hunters in their search for the bear.
Encounters with bears are common in the South Karelia region. In Lappeenranta alone, 137 bear sightings have been reported to authorities this year.
In June 1998, a jogger was killed after startling a mother bear in Ruokolahti, some 50 km from Lappeenranta -- the first such fatality in the country in more than a century.
Cubs Unable to Fend for Themselves
According to Dr. Jonna Katajisto, who has studied bears and their movements, the cubs would probably not have been able to survive without their mother. Admitting their shooting gave rise to emotions, she added the cubs would not have survived alone in the forest. It would have been most unlikely for them to have made a winter nest without their mother’s help.
Putting the cubs in a zoo was not an alternative as bears needed a much larger environment in which to survive, she added.
# Posted on August 5th 2009 by Miss Mulligan
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I'm with you on this one: killing the bear was reactionary, and wrong. This is the same reasoning that sealed the fate of California's last Grizzly and her cubs, back in the 1920s. This recent situation not withstanding, are the browns in Finland still more or less thriving?
# Posted on August 5th 2009 by Atahualpa Quigley