Here in the US, it is the eve before Thanksgiving, a wonderful day where we get together with family and friends, laugh a lot and eat too much, and all without the pressure of finding that perfect gift!
In addition to the other many things I am thankful for in my life, I am thankful for:
1. This very entertaining and useful website.
2. Local sessions, the publicans that sponsor them, and the musicians that haunt them.
3. Being able to play in a band, something I aspired to, but never thought I would achieve.
4. The fact that there are more good tunes than I will ever learn, so I have no fear of running out of new things to do.
Amen to those exepct two and three as I am not in a band and the local sessions are few and far between. I am also thankful for the amount of instrument makers and the ease of comunication via the internet, I doubt I would be playing ITM with out that. The ease of purchasing music, go to Amazon or Ossian type in my card number and in 3 days I got a new CD and I don't even have to move my fat arse to the store.
1. Same as Al---this is an AWESOME website, and so is everyone on it.
2. Finally coming to my senses and realizing that I can no longer procrastinate on learning to play the fiddle. I've only got one lifetime!
3. My teacher, without whom I likely would have given up after the first week.
4. Friends and family, all of whom haven't a clue about Irish music, but encourage me anyway and let me drag them to the local sessions.
What a maudlin post this is turning out to be. Cue the chick-flick orchestral string score in the background...
My friends who got me into ITM and play, my dog who will actually listen when I play, and my family who just barely puts up with it. Happy Thanksgiving.
Then you douls play Whistle, Guitar, and Harmonica all at the same time. Rembmered some stuff. I am definatly thankful for owning quality instruments, and getting in to college a year early.
"Sitting back with good company,
Thinking of all the things that I have seen.
I've been to here, I've been to there.
But I ain't going anywhere,
..'cos...
I'm luckier than most,
I sit with my friends and I drink a toast
To the times we've had, the times to come;
Our music's in the sun..."
from 'Times' by Don Jarmey
A great mate of mine, and a song that really sums it up for me here in sunny Brissie. I'm typing this under the guise of 'working from home' while watching the first day of the ashes on telly - it's 31 degrees C with a cool breeze and all's well with the world.
Eno
P.S. I'm off to the UK next week. Ten degrees? What's that?
-The guy whom gave me a baloney sandwich in 1973 on a Greyhound bus to Detroit from Seattle. The kindness enabled forty two cents in my pocket to stretch the whole trip- and buy hot soup in Lincoln, Nebraska. There's nothing like food to the hungry! A professor of mine later described his joy at finding an unexpected potato while on starvation diet while prisoner of the Nazis. A small thing can be very big.
Trevor - you're too kind. It was a great session. Good to meet you guys. There you go, I'm thankful for all the good people out there that I know well, that I've just met and those I've yet to meet.
My mum showing us that playing music isn't just a 'hobby' - more a way of life. She's given up the keyboards and restricts herself to the recorder now she's turned 90. And - I'm thankful she's still alive.
I'm thankful the Pilgrim Fathers didn't turn back, so the religious fundamentalists stayed in America.
But we do know we owe you guys a lot - Ben and Jerries', Nantucket Nectars, Jean Ritchie, John Hartford, Dave Bromberg, the Dead, Guy Clark, the Beers Family, Jim Kweskin, Leo Fender, C.F.Martin.........and my 'ol lady too.....
This site -- thanks, Jeremy -- great company all around!...family and good friends -- shared time with each yesterday...music in general, but especially ITM, which has gotten me into more good things (and at times, seemingly more trouble) than I could otherwise imagine.
What are you thankful for?
What are you thankful for?
Here in the US, it is the eve before Thanksgiving, a wonderful day where we get together with family and friends, laugh a lot and eat too much, and all without the pressure of finding that perfect gift!
In addition to the other many things I am thankful for in my life, I am thankful for:
1. This very entertaining and useful website.
2. Local sessions, the publicans that sponsor them, and the musicians that haunt them.
3. Being able to play in a band, something I aspired to, but never thought I would achieve.
4. The fact that there are more good tunes than I will ever learn, so I have no fear of running out of new things to do.
What are you thankful for?
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by AlBrown
Re: What are you thankful for?
Amen to those exepct two and three as I am not in a band and the local sessions are few and far between. I am also thankful for the amount of instrument makers and the ease of comunication via the internet, I doubt I would be playing ITM with out that. The ease of purchasing music, go to Amazon or Ossian type in my card number and in 3 days I got a new CD and I don't even have to move my fat arse to the store.
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by Unseen122
Re: What are you thankful for?
Jeremy's abiding patience with this cybersocial experiment.
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by Will CPT
Re: What are you thankful for?
This site.
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by crazy_fingerz
Re: What are you thankful for?
that i get paid in a couple of days. i have £1 to do me till then.
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by DubChieftain
Re: What are you thankful for?
One of my very favorite holidays, indeed.
1. Same as Al---this is an AWESOME website, and so is everyone on it.
2. Finally coming to my senses and realizing that I can no longer procrastinate on learning to play the fiddle. I've only got one lifetime!
3. My teacher, without whom I likely would have given up after the first week.
4. Friends and family, all of whom haven't a clue about Irish music, but encourage me anyway and let me drag them to the local sessions.
What a maudlin post this is turning out to be. Cue the chick-flick orchestral string score in the background...
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by kennedy
Re: What are you thankful for?
My friends who got me into ITM and play, my dog who will actually listen when I play, and my family who just barely puts up with it. Happy Thanksgiving.
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by IrishElf
Re: What are you thankful for?
What do you expect... I wouldnt put up with an Irish Elf either...!
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by The Merry Highlander
Re: What are you thankful for?
all same as beginning post- also all the wonderfully talented musicians who have taught me, encouraged me, and welcomed me at thier sessions.
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by BE
Re: What are you thankful for?
Walking up alive every morning.
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by dafydd
Re: What are you thankful for?
You couldn't wake up dead,could you?
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by dafydd
Re: What are you thankful for?
I wouldn't know - 've never woken up dead so far.
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by EastPole
Re: What are you thankful for?
i have, its not nice at all. trust me, it's so overated.
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by Scrappy the Godo
Re: What are you thankful for?
I think one of the criteria for the All Ireland is you have to be alive ...
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by benhall.1
Re: What are you thankful for?
I'm thankful for my friend who wasn't playing her Olwell flute and sold it to me.
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by jtrout
Re: What are you thankful for?
I'll have to agree...this site, and everybody who's been patient enough to teach me anything. Life in general, it's all good.
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by possumawesome
Re: What are you thankful for?
I'm thankful that I won't be kept late at work, talking to people from Houston who can never remember time zones, for at least two days this week
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by Bren
Re: What are you thankful for?
I'm thankful that I wasn't born with two heads.
While I was holding the whistle to one mouth, the other head would feel incredibly frustrated.
To be born with two heads and four arms would be asking the moon.
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by nicholas
Re: What are you thankful for?
Then you douls play Whistle, Guitar, and Harmonica all at the same time. Rembmered some stuff. I am definatly thankful for owning quality instruments, and getting in to college a year early.
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by Unseen122
Re: What are you thankful for?
I am thankful for all the things which AlBrown mentioned, and additionally that the real Thanksgiving took place, as always, in October.
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by oldstrings
Re: What are you thankful for?
my kids most of all.
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by Kheelch
Simple irish folk
us wee simple irish folk here in éire dont celebrate thanksgiving.....what a shame!
mabye you could be thankful that americans do and get that little bit of extra holiday time......
oh wel, back to work i suppose for me then!
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by saxwhistle
Re: What are you thankful for?
My music teacher.
Mary
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by Antikhntr
Re: What are you thankful for?
that the Atlantic is really quite wide
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by llig leahcim
Re: What are you thankful for?
1) This site, which got me jacked into the local session scene and has provided many hours of entertainment and occasionally a useful bit of info.
2) My new Murray flute
3) Ears
4) A good election result
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by wormdiet
Re: What are you thankful for?
I'm thankful we moved away from Massachusetts
(Taxachusetts).
Still spreading democracy at the end of a musket I see?
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by Ray Mariani
Re: What are you thankful for?
All the renewal I get from playing music.
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by cathrynb
Re: What are you thankful for?
I am thankful for a great Dad that I had for all of my 55 years, and for the musical ability to play Taps at his funeral last month.
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by Greg the Piano Tuner
Re: What are you thankful for?
"Sitting back with good company,
Thinking of all the things that I have seen.
I've been to here, I've been to there.
But I ain't going anywhere,
..'cos...
I'm luckier than most,
I sit with my friends and I drink a toast
To the times we've had, the times to come;
Our music's in the sun..."
from 'Times' by Don Jarmey
A great mate of mine, and a song that really sums it up for me here in sunny Brissie. I'm typing this under the guise of 'working from home' while watching the first day of the ashes on telly - it's 31 degrees C with a cool breeze and all's well with the world.
Eno
P.S. I'm off to the UK next week. Ten degrees? What's that?
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by bc_box_player
Re: What are you thankful for?
Being extended by a great fiddler from Ross-on-Wye who made an unexpected and very welcome appearance at our Monday session at The Lion in Bristol.
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by lazyhound
Re: What are you thankful for?
i am thankful for the fall election results and the democratic congressional majority.....
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by ceemonster
Re: What are you thankful for?
My supportive family
and my wonderful mentor, who made me what I am today.
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by Red Crow
Re: What are you thankful for?
-The guy whom gave me a baloney sandwich in 1973 on a Greyhound bus to Detroit from Seattle. The kindness enabled forty two cents in my pocket to stretch the whole trip- and buy hot soup in Lincoln, Nebraska. There's nothing like food to the hungry! A professor of mine later described his joy at finding an unexpected potato while on starvation diet while prisoner of the Nazis. A small thing can be very big.
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by pubpersona
Re: What are you thankful for?
Family
County Clare - the people, the music, the scenery.
Everybody else and their music
Brendan, who started me playing bodhran.
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by RockyRoader
Re: What are you thankful for?
Trevor - you're too kind. It was a great session. Good to meet you guys. There you go, I'm thankful for all the good people out there that I know well, that I've just met and those I've yet to meet.
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by benhall.1
Re: What are you thankful for?
My mum showing us that playing music isn't just a 'hobby' - more a way of life. She's given up the keyboards and restricts herself to the recorder now she's turned 90. And - I'm thankful she's still alive.
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by kuec
Re: What are you thankful for?
Thanks for this thread, Al.
And thank you to Jeremy for this site.
Thank you all for entertaining and informing me through this year.
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by fidkid
Re: What are you thankful for?
for being Irish, female, for my good friends, my dogs and of course my musical life partner!
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by MollyB
Re: What are you thankful for?
llig, you scamp!!
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by Mark Harmer
Re: What are you thankful for?
not wide enough, Michael
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by Conán McDonnell
Re: What are you thankful for?
LMFAO @ llig
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by Dow
Re: What are you thankful for?
(tee he)
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by llig leahcim
Re: What are you thankful for?
I'm thankful for most of the stuff above, plus last Sunday's low morning sunlight on the moor between mist patches.
# Posted on November 23rd 2006 by millionyears_bc
Re: What are you thankful for?
I'm thankful the Pilgrim Fathers didn't turn back, so the religious fundamentalists stayed in America.
But we do know we owe you guys a lot - Ben and Jerries', Nantucket Nectars, Jean Ritchie, John Hartford, Dave Bromberg, the Dead, Guy Clark, the Beers Family, Jim Kweskin, Leo Fender, C.F.Martin.........and my 'ol lady too.....
# Posted on November 24th 2006 by Guernsey Pete
Re: What are you thankful for?
PS went out to a Thai restaurant for Thanksgiving dinner - no turkey !
# Posted on November 24th 2006 by Guernsey Pete
Re: What are you thankful for?
This site -- thanks, Jeremy -- great company all around!...family and good friends -- shared time with each yesterday...music in general, but especially ITM, which has gotten me into more good things (and at times, seemingly more trouble) than I could otherwise imagine.
# Posted on November 25th 2006 by pn5jn
Re: What are you thankful for?
For Lligs sense of humour...or is he really serious???
# Posted on November 26th 2006 by bowburner