ok so i live in Dingle, County Kerry, which is a very seasonal tourist town, and summer ends in about 4 days. This means that a crazy nonstop few months of gigs, sessions etc is about to end. it also coincides with my wife leaving to teach English in Japan for 4 months (tomorrow is our 1st wedding anniversary!) - so basically i am going to have a hell of a lot more time on my hands. And one of the ways i intend to spend it is to get my repertoire of tunes that i can play (as oppose to "back") up to 100! The goal is 100 tunes by March 1st. So wish me luck!
lol -"conjugal visits"-reminds me of Office Space! i hope to meet up with her in Erie, PA at her families place in the New Year.
For tunes, i play once a week with a great piper and so am getting familiar with his repertoire, and he said when things quieten down he'll sit down and give me names to a lot of them. Here in Kerry they are Polka crazy (and Slides too) so there wil be a few of them. I have about 35-40 tunes down but they are ALL reels! I don't know why..so i'll be learning a lot of jigs etc to balance things out!
Good luck! I'm leaving my husband on Saturday, to go to school. At least we will only be 2 1/2 hours away from each other. I'll be living on campus, so I don't know if I'll have to keep one foot on the floor during our "visit." ha! might be fun! Actually, I'm in an on-campus apartment, and he can visit as much as he wants.
I have the same goal, to learn tunes while I am away. I might try and get a session going, too. But when I asked a celtic (Celtic Sage) band from there about sessions, they laughed at me and said I might want to try an orchestra (!!??!!) that they have there. I don't think they knew what I was talking about!
wish me luck!
wish me luck!
ok so i live in Dingle, County Kerry, which is a very seasonal tourist town, and summer ends in about 4 days. This means that a crazy nonstop few months of gigs, sessions etc is about to end. it also coincides with my wife leaving to teach English in Japan for 4 months (tomorrow is our 1st wedding anniversary!) - so basically i am going to have a hell of a lot more time on my hands. And one of the ways i intend to spend it is to get my repertoire of tunes that i can play (as oppose to "back") up to 100! The goal is 100 tunes by March 1st. So wish me luck!
# Posted on August 26th 2008 by hakanozel
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Best of luck to you, hakanozel! Wow, 4 months separation, that's hard time. Hope you get to break it up with conjugal visits.
Just curious -- any particular tunes you have your eye/ears on?
# Posted on August 26th 2008 by fidkid
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lol -"conjugal visits"-reminds me of Office Space! i hope to meet up with her in Erie, PA at her families place in the New Year.
For tunes, i play once a week with a great piper and so am getting familiar with his repertoire, and he said when things quieten down he'll sit down and give me names to a lot of them. Here in Kerry they are Polka crazy (and Slides too) so there wil be a few of them. I have about 35-40 tunes down but they are ALL reels! I don't know why..so i'll be learning a lot of jigs etc to balance things out!
# Posted on August 26th 2008 by hakanozel
Re: wish me luck!
Good luck! I'm leaving my husband on Saturday, to go to school. At least we will only be 2 1/2 hours away from each other. I'll be living on campus, so I don't know if I'll have to keep one foot on the floor during our "visit." ha! might be fun! Actually, I'm in an on-campus apartment, and he can visit as much as he wants.
I have the same goal, to learn tunes while I am away. I might try and get a session going, too. But when I asked a celtic (Celtic Sage) band from there about sessions, they laughed at me and said I might want to try an orchestra (!!??!!) that they have there. I don't think they knew what I was talking about!
# Posted on August 26th 2008 by Wyogal
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I'm unemployed and on a similar quest. I just don't have a hard number to meet.
Good luck!!!
# Posted on August 27th 2008 by Fishmonger