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Something to put you all in the Christmas Spirit

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6496701702492759601

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by ceolachan

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Not Irish... should be deleted.

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by The Merry Highlander

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So should Christmas.

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by bodhran bliss

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I was joking...

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by The Merry Highlander

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We used to play Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride for a Christmas ceili, and we had a bell shaker. We never did manage the coconut shells but a wood block worked just fine... Worse, we had a glockenspiel too... That could be the next big thing in Irish music ~ the glockenspiel...and Sousa marches... 8-)

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by ceolachan

Damn, where did I leave my Sousaphone?

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by ceolachan

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I wasn't....

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by bodhran bliss

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Wait a second here your name is "bodhran" bliss and you want to ban Christmas? You have now let yourself wide open... :8)

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by The Merry Highlander

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"Not Irish... should be deleted."

Hielander, that's ridiculous - you can't possibly determine his nationality just by looking at his hands.

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by ragaman

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"Manualism"- what a brilliant skill!
'Le pétomane' used to do something similar- but he was an arsonist.

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by P-K

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'Le pétomane' is also somewhere on the Internet, but not playing Christmas music.

I was expecting that BB, you are so predictable, BAH HUMBUG!...but I guess that comes with the instrument... :-D

On Grafton street, in Dublin, you would sometimes catch certain 'other' tunes peppering in the Christmas season of the commercial rush, this Leroy Anderson number and something that always makes us think of home, when it was there, from Prokofiev's Suite for Leutenant Kijé, the Troika...

Here is someone else's take on this number but with a bit more of what might be recognized ~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROvLqh-_jdM

It has also been played in Ireland, both symphonically and for a lark... So, if played by the Irish in Ireland can it be allowed? And if not, should we give up music all together? Now if only I can find a glockenspiel for a good, maybe 3 octaves, for a good price or given out of kindness for free, then I can start practicing until I'm ready to take it to sessions. What would be cool would be a marching glockenspiel. With a 'glock' in my mits who would question its appropriateness to Irish music? 8-)

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by ceolachan

Hmmmm. It's Christmas, what could I do to really wind up ol' BB and others of that ilk, besides showing up at their session with a glock? :-)

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by ceolachan

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This'll do for a start ~ :-D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsYUdWMARwA

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by ceolachan

Here's BB and the gang having a bit of family fun, getting in the mood ~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hkUpW9ZCBQ

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by ceolachan

I love the outfit BB, who's your tailor?

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by ceolachan

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"Sleigh Ride"
Key signature: C Major
Submitted on December 11th 2007 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8036

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by ceolachan

Http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8036

Not Irish... should be deleted.

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by Random_notes

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If we were on a purge, to 'delete' everything that wasn't 100% Irish, after elminating music, based on earliest origins, we'd be left then with a hell of a lot of people to delete... But that has never crossed my mind till now... ;-)

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by ceolachan

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Alright, forget Christmas and the commercial, let's all revert to those good ol' pre-Christian times and celebrations, when bullies ruled the world with might... I suspect the music was something like those Salsa bands, beating things together, including heads, and squeezin' bladders and hollerin' and jumping up and down... Hmmm, sounds like some sessions I've visited... :-/

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by ceolachan

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Excuse me, what makes pre and post christian times different? you think bullies dont rule the world with might now?!

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by jig

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Sorry, do you want me to shine your shoes now sir? ;-)

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by ceolachan

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Is this place like his every day?
I might want to come back.
Nah!

# Posted on December 12th 2007 by Random_notes

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I refuse to correct that typo.

# Posted on December 12th 2007 by Random_notes

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I'm sure he played that tune in the wrong key, but it brought back memories of the first time I made love. Yes..I was on my own.

# Posted on December 12th 2007 by Free Reed

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Here's BB and the gang having a bit of family fun, getting in the mood ~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hkUpW9ZCBQ

# Posted on December 11th 2007 by ceolachan

AAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHH> Green Kryptonite!

You remembered. Was it this site I confessed that I hate Christmas because of Childhood memories of "Andy Williams Show".

And Scrooge has nowt to do with it. I resent paying £30 for a lunch which was £6 the day before, just because it is Christmas. Now there is theft and theft, the liberation of plectrums from the multi-nationals notwithstanding.

# Posted on December 12th 2007 by bodhran bliss

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Yes! ~ See, I love you so much, in my Christmessy sort of way, that I remembered your achilles heel... Worse, the Williams brothers, more than one... AAH HA HA HA HA HA!!! (evil laugh!)

Worse is possible ~ 'shaky egg' accompaniment....

# Posted on December 12th 2007 by ceolachan

Hey BB, you can get a free Christmas lunch with the Sally Army...

# Posted on December 12th 2007 by ceolachan

And it ain't half bad either. The company is also varied and interesting... 8-)

# Posted on December 12th 2007 by ceolachan

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That's a classic ceolachan. Thanks for that. Have you seen this one?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuJrre_sITc

it should make you smile!

# Posted on December 12th 2007 by Rob Millner

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:-) ~ Ahhhh, me in my youth... You can't find a good musical pump anymore nowadays, and I have a hell of a time finding shoes... Was that BB sneaking up and clobbering me with the chair? I can't remember a thing since...

Thanks Rob, I enjoyed that... I remember seeing that a long, long time ago, before computers ruled the world, but can't remember where...

# Posted on December 12th 2007 by ceolachan

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my session needs a tuba player

# Posted on December 12th 2007 by zippydw

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Would a Sousaphone do? :-/

# Posted on December 13th 2007 by ceolachan

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I can nearly armpit squelch "The Britches full of stitches"!!

# Posted on December 13th 2007 by Rob Millner

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Armpit squelching!? I'd almost forgotten that lost art, along with hambone. I wonder how that would go down in a session?

# Posted on December 13th 2007 by ceolachan

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Try this to bring out your Christmas Spirit...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM_kmy9wcJc

It's a tune written by Gary O'Driscoll from Newfoundland and sung by the Punters.

# Posted on December 17th 2007 by newfiegirl