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ITM in Rochdale Lancs England - Anyone interested in a Session?

ITM in Rochdale Lancs England - Anyone interested in a Session?

3 players (bodrahn, pipes & piano Accordian) who have played together a little, wonder if there might be some more players in Rochdale area who might be interested in getting a session together say once a month to start. We have a venue just need one or two more melody players. We hope to start small so we can share tunes etc. Please give me a shout if you are interested. If we can get it going then we will post it in the sessions section on this site once its up and running.
Cheers Phil

# Posted on January 12th 2008 by PNBarratt

Re: ITM in Rochdale Lancs England - Anyone interested in a Session?

Session - Whitefield Thursday night
Monday night Middleton - lots of songs there though.
Where do you fancy meeting up? Steve

# Posted on January 13th 2008 by stevekeene

Re: ITM in Rochdale Lancs England - Anyone interested in a Session?

Hello Phil,
Fiddle player from the Norden area here. I'd certainly be interested. Where's the venue, and what night did you have in mind?
Andy.

# Posted on January 13th 2008 by riverrunner

Re: ITM in Rochdale Lancs England - Anyone interested in a Session?

G'Day Phil,

Desi Friel is the man to ask - father of Anna. You'll get him at :- des@egenica.com
Desi is a superb guitarist and has played ITM most of his life as well as writing / composing / recording much of his own. He was born in Andersonstown in Belfast but moved to Rochedale after uni, where he taught French and Spanish. I can't remember if their session, on a Monday night, is in Rochedale or Bury, however if you email him he' ll be delighted to hear from you. I supposed my view of him is coloured and why not? Wouldn't any brothers'?
regards,
Tony Friel,
Hervey Bay - Queensland.


# Posted on January 14th 2008 by friel

Re: ITM in Rochdale Lancs England - Anyone interested in a Session?

Desi Friel plays - occasionally these days - busy man - at the session in Middleton - Monday nights.

# Posted on January 14th 2008 by stevekeene

Re: ITM in Rochdale Lancs England - Anyone interested in a Session?

Yep!
You're spot on Steve - Middleton it is. Now why didn't I remember that, having spent the weekend after Christmas with Julie and him. Anyway. The idea is to get Phil into a session so that he can get his own venue going. Maybe he can contact yourself or Desi for starters.
Regards,
Tony Friel - Hervey Bay.

# Posted on January 14th 2008 by friel

Re: ITM in Rochdale Lancs England - Anyone interested in a Session?

Thanks for these! I know about the monday session in Middleton but where is the Whitefield session on a Thursday please steve? I played at one a few years ago in St bernadettes church club - great guiness if my memory serves me correct, but I thought that had folded. Whitefield's not too far away.

Cheers Phil

# Posted on January 15th 2008 by PNBarratt

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