I regularly get this type of response when speaking with establishment owners about playing ITM regularly, somewhat regularly and even occasionally for them. They say "Oh, we love your playing, what are you doing on St. Patrick's Day" What do they think? That I only play ITM on St. Patrick's Day? I've even gotten this from Irish Pubs. Or should I say faux Irish pubs. Then they say something like, "you're so talented, can you mix it up and play some blues or other stuff like Jimmy Buffett and Van Morrison, maybe some bluegrass?" It's frustrating. What's your thoughts.
I played Folsom Prison Blues on my fiddle, at our local Irish session, just a couple weeks ago, filling while a cowboy sang the song.
It's not a regular happening, but every now and then someone shows up who wants to sing/play/hear something different. We don't always oblige, but it can be fun, part of the crack.
St. Pat's? If it's a pub owner asking, I usually reply "That's our busiest day of the year...how much are you paying?"
An occasional dalliance into other terrain for a bit of a chuckle doesn't bug me. I guess it's more of a niusance when I'm looking into new places to play. When your session is established, the comfort of home lends itself to people knowing who and what you are.
Run away. Run away. It's the faux Irish, the pubs that color the beer green and expect you to have a leprechaun sitting on your lap as you try to play. At least here in the states they do. Then they forget about you until next year.
Huh?? Didn't quite get that. Could you repear it into my recorder. I,ll go home and try to figure it out. With any luck I'll go watch the Hurling finals and cheer em on in my new found language.
No-one's ever said that to me. More like, What are you doing on Paddy's day, cos you can't come here; we've booked some real musicians instead of you lot.
Just playing with the google language tools;
Naomh желчный всем пути да! Gribby победили!
{Naomh zhelchnyĭ vsem puti da! Gribby pobedili!}
I don't read Russian, so pardon me if I spoke ill of any of your relatives.
The original question ~ I have no idea. A bunch of us once played at a Guy Fawkes Night event. The bonfire was fun.
It's the time of year that a trapdoor opens at your feet and you look down into it at what the Irish really like.
Well, I'm guessing, because you'd have to be in Ireland to do that. In England, a trapdoor opens at your feet and you look down into it at a droll heap of lumber bizarrely reminiscent of Christmas paraphernalia, musical and other. This is what is lugged out for St. Patrick's Day, because on St. Patrick's Day it is What One Does. St. Patrick's Day has been around here long enough to have become a tradition, and is accordingly celebrated in an unvarying way with phlegmatic horse-faced resignation. That is the default mode, at any rate.
I will very likely play The Fields Of Athenry to the guitar of someone who plays two chords and usually gets them wrong, because it's what we did last year and the year before.
"We love your playing"
"Your so talented"
Some will say just the opposite of what they mean. What that really means is.
"We hate that diddley doo."
"You've got no talent and take your vacuum cleaner with you."
It's too soon for all that, or...
...we were booked on March 18th '09......
But it is too soon, we haven't had Burns Night yet.
Oh, ye sleak, timorous, cowerin' beastie......
Were I to have infinite time and money (and interest), the stock of a certain stall in Durham(UK)'s covered market would I think cover all my likely local St. Patrick's Day musical repertoire needs.
It is short on trad gods but has compilations of tracks by dodgy groups one has never heard of. (Do The Fureys count in this context?) That is, till you're back in the era of The Dubliners and The Clancys. Lots of ceilidh records, crooners, Elvis and Fifties R&R, Country aplenty including Country and Irish. The core is really "Irish" / "Scottish" / "Rural" in a big way.
All this is bookmarked by holiday footage of the Battle of Kursk, Pavarotti, Demis Roussos, panpipes and Welsh choirs. They are obviously all Irish too.
I've very seldom bought anything at this stall but I'm very glad it's there. The material is well within my range of tolerance. It is really a whole slew of stuff that people here might, by some tail-on-the-donkey process, pin somewhere on the Irish / St. Patrick's Day entity.
huh. never mind St, Pat's day. Last night at a Burn's Supper was asked if the band did any Saw Doctors stuff (have I got that right?) or could we do any Irish...sheesh.
Burns'? ..... it's probably time you Saw A Doctor.
Tomorrow will be my third Burns' this year. Three more to go.
St. Paddys' ?
we will be playing for the local Catholic church dance at St. Asda's (it's across the road from the supermarket). Appreciative audience, good food, black stuff, always a sellout.
Once again I’ll be playing a 7.00am champagne breakfast concert at The New Sydney Hotel in Hobart. It’s something I’ve been involved with since I came to Tasmania.
I’m involved with the Irish Association of Tasmania, and for many of them now domiciled here in Australia, it really is a chance to celebrate their day, their heritage.
There’s as many as 100 attend at that time of the morning!
It has to be the best gig of the day; no one is pi#*ed; those who are there have risen early and it has none of the trashy approach alluded to by others in this post.
Some dear friends come along and play and it is the most lovely, gentle way to start to play. If any musician arrives, they’re invited to have a tune or song and the atmosphere is one of great celebration.
I get there early and hang my tricolour at the back of the stage where it remains all day.
The girls on the bar all make their own dresses and even go as far as painting their fingernails green and orange!
Obviously it’s Autumn down here but I always manage to find shamrock and leave it on a tray for people to wear.
So if you find your way to Hobart Town then please drop in, you’ll have the most wonderful welcome!
Last year we played SPD at Strathclyde uni.
It was a hoot and very well paid. Stage was about bar height though so a lot of pints were spilled and it got quite slippy
The other band was a tribute act called 2U, I still haven't found who they were meant to be tributing ...
I won't be doing any of that stuff. I'll be thinking of my Mom's family (Westmeath and Armagh) and although not Irish, my Dad's side as well (Glasgow). St. Patrick's Day is a Wednesday this year, and I'll be in school all day, so I'll have my fiddle and I'll play tunes all day with the kids.
On that particular day of the Gregorian calendar (Guinness Promotion Day) I shall avoid any pub that is actually or pretends to be ‘Irish’. I will therefore avoid all the immature amateur drinkers from Australia, South Africa, Poland, London and elsewhere who suddenly think of going to the pub because it’s a ‘party day’ and clutter it up with drunkenness and loud inappropriate behaviour.
But St Patrick’s Day is only number three in the charts of “times to avoid the pub at all costs”. At Numbers 1 & 2 are (1) the time after work on the last working day before Christmas and (2) New Year’s Eve.
My local last year (ostensibly an Irish pub as it is owned, managed and frequented by a lot of the Irish Diaspora) was roofed last 17 March. I couldn’t actually get in the door at about 5 pm and I couldn’t recognise a single customer (from a usual day pub full of regulars).
In my part of Chicago, its a time for amateurs to demonstrate that they are.
Much caterwalling in the guise of Irish Music.
But the Bar keeps have great sway. The neighborhood cancelled the regular annual South Side Irish Parade/spectacle/Communal puke fest. But Evergreen Park Picked up the rights to it so their bar keeps can profit and enjoy the blessings of the day.
Hmmm........ Comunal puke fest in Chicago? or Champange breakfast in Hobart town Tazmania? I'm so torn up I'll never stop laughing. Briantheflute, make room for an onslought of misplaced refugees. Who's got a boat?
What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
I regularly get this type of response when speaking with establishment owners about playing ITM regularly, somewhat regularly and even occasionally for them. They say "Oh, we love your playing, what are you doing on St. Patrick's Day" What do they think? That I only play ITM on St. Patrick's Day? I've even gotten this from Irish Pubs. Or should I say faux Irish pubs. Then they say something like, "you're so talented, can you mix it up and play some blues or other stuff like Jimmy Buffett and Van Morrison, maybe some bluegrass?" It's frustrating. What's your thoughts.
# Posted on January 23rd 2010 by Gone to work
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
I once got asked if I could play Elvis Presley on my fiddle. It's very annoying I agree
# Posted on January 23rd 2010 by D.J.F.
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Yeah, sometimes I can't tell if they're serious or just yanking my chain.
# Posted on January 23rd 2010 by Gone to work
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
I played Folsom Prison Blues on my fiddle, at our local Irish session, just a couple weeks ago, filling while a cowboy sang the song.
It's not a regular happening, but every now and then someone shows up who wants to sing/play/hear something different. We don't always oblige, but it can be fun, part of the crack.
St. Pat's? If it's a pub owner asking, I usually reply "That's our busiest day of the year...how much are you paying?"
# Posted on January 23rd 2010 by Will Harmon
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
An occasional dalliance into other terrain for a bit of a chuckle doesn't bug me. I guess it's more of a niusance when I'm looking into new places to play. When your session is established, the comfort of home lends itself to people knowing who and what you are.
# Posted on January 23rd 2010 by Gone to work
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I expect I'll be staying in for fear that the faux Irish may get me.
# Posted on January 23rd 2010 by ethical blend
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Run away. Run away. It's the faux Irish, the pubs that color the beer green and expect you to have a leprechaun sitting on your lap as you try to play. At least here in the states they do. Then they forget about you until next year.
# Posted on January 23rd 2010 by Gone to work
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
Watching the All Ireland club hurling and football finals, hopefully featuring St Gall's from Belfast, and Dunloy from North Antrim.
After that......well, go with the flow.
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by bodhran bliss
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
Isn't being asked to play in other styles a bit like you asking them if they can speak Russian? Ie it's humanly possible but not what you do?
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Mark Harmer
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Or should I say, "Я здесь отдыхаю, мой случай."
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Mark Harmer
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
Huh?? Didn't quite get that. Could you repear it into my recorder. I,ll go home and try to figure it out. With any luck I'll go watch the Hurling finals and cheer em on in my new found language.
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Gone to work
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
"you're so talented..."
No-one's ever said that to me. More like, What are you doing on Paddy's day, cos you can't come here; we've booked some real musicians instead of you lot.
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Rudall the time
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Hopefully is rite B Bliss.. Naomh Gall all da way!! won Gribby !
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Miss Mulligan
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Just playing with the google language tools;
Naomh желчный всем пути да! Gribby победили!
{Naomh zhelchnyĭ vsem puti da! Gribby pobedili!}
I don't read Russian, so pardon me if I spoke ill of any of your relatives.
The original question ~ I have no idea. A bunch of us once played at a Guy Fawkes Night event. The bonfire was fun.
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Ben Steen
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
It's the time of year that a trapdoor opens at your feet and you look down into it at what the Irish really like.
Well, I'm guessing, because you'd have to be in Ireland to do that. In England, a trapdoor opens at your feet and you look down into it at a droll heap of lumber bizarrely reminiscent of Christmas paraphernalia, musical and other. This is what is lugged out for St. Patrick's Day, because on St. Patrick's Day it is What One Does. St. Patrick's Day has been around here long enough to have become a tradition, and is accordingly celebrated in an unvarying way with phlegmatic horse-faced resignation. That is the default mode, at any rate.
I will very likely play The Fields Of Athenry to the guitar of someone who plays two chords and usually gets them wrong, because it's what we did last year and the year before.
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by nicholas
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
"We love your playing"
"Your so talented"
Some will say just the opposite of what they mean. What that really means is.
"We hate that diddley doo."
"You've got no talent and take your vacuum cleaner with you."
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Gone to work
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Nicholas
"...phlegmatic horse-faced resignation" lol
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Eòsaph
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Elvis who?(just kidding D.J.F.)
I didn't know that there was an Irish tune named after the late King of Rock'n'Roll.
This faux Irishman will probably be rehearsing with the mandolin and guitar group whom he plays bass with on St. Patrick's Day.
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by fauxcelt
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
It's too soon for all that, or...
...we were booked on March 18th '09......
But it is too soon, we haven't had Burns Night yet.
Oh, ye sleak, timorous, cowerin' beastie......
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
That's no way to address a haggis!
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by gam
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
Were I to have infinite time and money (and interest), the stock of a certain stall in Durham(UK)'s covered market would I think cover all my likely local St. Patrick's Day musical repertoire needs.
It is short on trad gods but has compilations of tracks by dodgy groups one has never heard of. (Do The Fureys count in this context?) That is, till you're back in the era of The Dubliners and The Clancys. Lots of ceilidh records, crooners, Elvis and Fifties R&R, Country aplenty including Country and Irish. The core is really "Irish" / "Scottish" / "Rural" in a big way.
All this is bookmarked by holiday footage of the Battle of Kursk, Pavarotti, Demis Roussos, panpipes and Welsh choirs. They are obviously all Irish too.
I've very seldom bought anything at this stall but I'm very glad it's there. The material is well within my range of tolerance. It is really a whole slew of stuff that people here might, by some tail-on-the-donkey process, pin somewhere on the Irish / St. Patrick's Day entity.
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by nicholas
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
I will be putting down my hat at the local biker bar.
The landlord send me drams, chicks ask me how my pipes work, and the crowd digs the change from the usual noisy-noise.
They throw me cash, and never ask for "Danny Boy".
Cheers.
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Piece
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
I will be putting down my hat at the local biker bar.
The landlord send me drams, chicks ask me how my pipes work, and the crowd likes the change from the usual noise.
They throw me cash, and never ask for "Danny Boy".
Cheers.
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Piece
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
huh. never mind St, Pat's day. Last night at a Burn's Supper was asked if the band did any Saw Doctors stuff (have I got that right?) or could we do any Irish...sheesh.
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by john knoss
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sorry that should be Burns Supper.
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by john knoss
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
On referring to my diary I find I've at least three other music engagements that week - and none whatsoever to do with St Pat's
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Trevor Jennings
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
'I once got asked if I could play Elvis Presley on my fiddle. It's very annoying I agree'
Check out track 8 - http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/1184.
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by MacCruiskeen
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
Burns'? ..... it's probably time you Saw A Doctor.
Tomorrow will be my third Burns' this year. Three more to go.
St. Paddys' ?
we will be playing for the local Catholic church dance at St. Asda's (it's across the road from the supermarket). Appreciative audience, good food, black stuff, always a sellout.
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by geoffwright
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
'Saw a Doctor' groan, oh dear oh dear, that was awful - Geoff you need to be more careful with the matches...or does that count as self harm?
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by john knoss
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A chairde! Bail ó Dhia oraibh!
Once again I’ll be playing a 7.00am champagne breakfast concert at The New Sydney Hotel in Hobart. It’s something I’ve been involved with since I came to Tasmania.
I’m involved with the Irish Association of Tasmania, and for many of them now domiciled here in Australia, it really is a chance to celebrate their day, their heritage.
There’s as many as 100 attend at that time of the morning!
It has to be the best gig of the day; no one is pi#*ed; those who are there have risen early and it has none of the trashy approach alluded to by others in this post.
Some dear friends come along and play and it is the most lovely, gentle way to start to play. If any musician arrives, they’re invited to have a tune or song and the atmosphere is one of great celebration.
I get there early and hang my tricolour at the back of the stage where it remains all day.
The girls on the bar all make their own dresses and even go as far as painting their fingernails green and orange!
Obviously it’s Autumn down here but I always manage to find shamrock and leave it on a tray for people to wear.
So if you find your way to Hobart Town then please drop in, you’ll have the most wonderful welcome!
Brian xx
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by briantheflute
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Now that's how it should be. You've warmed my heart and made my day Brianthe flute!!
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Gone to work
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I thought it was Colonel Parker who played Elvis on the fiddle.
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by nicholas
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Playing the Celtic Celebration at the St. Ignatius Loyola School on the upper east side. Well, actually March 5.
# Posted on January 25th 2010 by BarryM
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
Doing a gig in Toulouse and getting bolloxed with shane mcgowan.
# Posted on January 25th 2010 by Choonz
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
Last year we played SPD at Strathclyde uni.
It was a hoot and very well paid. Stage was about bar height though so a lot of pints were spilled and it got quite slippy
The other band was a tribute act called 2U, I still haven't found who they were meant to be tributing ...
# Posted on January 25th 2010 by Bren
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
I won't be doing any of that stuff. I'll be thinking of my Mom's family (Westmeath and Armagh) and although not Irish, my Dad's side as well (Glasgow). St. Patrick's Day is a Wednesday this year, and I'll be in school all day, so I'll have my fiddle and I'll play tunes all day with the kids.
# Posted on January 25th 2010 by Greg the Piano Tuner
What are you doing on Guinness Promotion Day?
On that particular day of the Gregorian calendar (Guinness Promotion Day) I shall avoid any pub that is actually or pretends to be ‘Irish’. I will therefore avoid all the immature amateur drinkers from Australia, South Africa, Poland, London and elsewhere who suddenly think of going to the pub because it’s a ‘party day’ and clutter it up with drunkenness and loud inappropriate behaviour.
But St Patrick’s Day is only number three in the charts of “times to avoid the pub at all costs”. At Numbers 1 & 2 are (1) the time after work on the last working day before Christmas and (2) New Year’s Eve.
My local last year (ostensibly an Irish pub as it is owned, managed and frequented by a lot of the Irish Diaspora) was roofed last 17 March. I couldn’t actually get in the door at about 5 pm and I couldn’t recognise a single customer (from a usual day pub full of regulars).
# Posted on January 25th 2010 by yhaalhouse
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
In my part of Chicago, its a time for amateurs to demonstrate that they are.
Much caterwalling in the guise of Irish Music.
But the Bar keeps have great sway. The neighborhood cancelled the regular annual South Side Irish Parade/spectacle/Communal puke fest. But Evergreen Park Picked up the rights to it so their bar keeps can profit and enjoy the blessings of the day.
# Posted on January 25th 2010 by zippydw
Re: What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?
Hmmm........ Comunal puke fest in Chicago? or Champange breakfast in Hobart town Tazmania? I'm so torn up I'll never stop laughing. Briantheflute, make room for an onslought of misplaced refugees. Who's got a boat?
# Posted on January 25th 2010 by Gone to work