Just thought i'd post this thread for the sake of novelty. Just got back from a trip to mexico city. was there for business, but i brought my whistle and my friends insisisted on taking me to the *one* irish pub in all of mexico city, The Dubliners. this being a city of, oh, roughly twenty million people. after few guinesses into the night, i ended up playing some chunes in the corner. I was hoping to smoke out some other musicians, but to no avail. Anybody out there in the wide, wonderful world of thesession have any experience/knowledge of irish music action in mexico? looks like i'll be going down again in the not-too-distance future, and would be delighted to connect to any scene/person that could be found.
yes, i am aware of the prohibition against posting requests for "Hey are there any sessions in X." (Jeremy--I hope you don't mind me having bent the rule here slightly..) I did check the session part of the web site and--crazy!--there are no sessions listed in mexico. It is very well a good possibility that i went to the only irish pub in all of mexico. but that does not mean that there's nobody south of the border into the tunes.
and anyway, i wanted to brag about irish music exploits in mexico city. ;)
It won't help you much, it is just my "Irish music exploit" in Mexico...
Last february, we were invited to a wedding in Mexico with my girlfriend, as I had never been there before, we backpacked in a round trip to end up with the wedding party.
I took my flute (a special one made by a friend of mine, a single tube of aluminium, no problem with heat, sand, usefull to take the pulp out of the coconuts, the sound is not too bad).
The wedding party was great, 100% Mexican people (except two frenchies...), we danced a lot, and as the cousins of the bride played guitar, I asked if I could join with the flute, playing a couple of reels. They liked it very much, and I became immediately popular among the bride's family, I remember I asked the bride about the nature of the transparent liquid contained in bottles on every table, it looks really good, do you give this to kids to drink ? Oh do you want to drink one with me so they can take a picture ? And the bride had the glass straight... And me ? I'm not really that thirsty yet so I'll take my time... Very unpolite...? OK... 1,2,3... ahhhhh waaaahhhhhhhhhh.....
I was given a few small glasses of this kind of water like stuff, which enhanced my playing style, at the beginning at least, but after a few more glasses produced a terrible effect on the rythm of my reels, which our mexican friends did not really notice, keeping on clapping and shouting.
How did this end is something I cannot remember apart from the fact I threw my flute in the swimming pool of the place, but they did not let me go and get it, I had to wait for the morning...
Just to tell you that the spirit of Irish music is simple and beautifull and therefore universal, and seems to work with Tequila and I guess any stuff on earth...
Robinson
PS: We have a good festival/workshop in Périgord (middle west-south-west of France), never tried an Irish music fest with Confit de canard/Magret/Foie gras cooked with Peaches& Cahors Wine & Warm weather ? I like Irish weeks in Ireland, with Irish stew & Guiness & Rain, but as Irish music is universal, sometimes you know...
Yeah... I've played Irish music in some interesting places.
- St. Patrick's Day 2000 I played in Ryan's Irish Pub in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. The bar owner, an Irish expat, was beside himself to have some real, live Irish music in a pub in West Africa. So was I.
- St. Patrick's Day 2001 I played in an Irish pub right below the Duomo in Florence, Italy. The bar staff gave me as much beer as I could drink and I was the bar hero.
- St. Patrick's day 2003 I played in a restaurant in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. The owner played a bit of Irish music herself but thought she was the only person in Mexico who played. She almost fell out of her seat when I started busting out the tunes.
- St. Patrick's day 2004 - I'll be playing in an Irish pub in San Jose, Costa Rica... if they don't drown me out with salsa music before I'm through!
At a conference dinner in Budapest way back with a Gypsy band entertaining, I got inspired after a few glasses of hungarian wine, and asked to borrow the fiddle to play some jigs. ¨The gypsies joined in with all their inistruments inclueing a whoa-whoa bowed string base, and the fusion fusion result would probably, if broadcast on this site, call for all the f*words in the dictionary, but it was fun. An englishman burst up on to the table and started playing spoons...
I play some ITM in Mexico City with my band, but its not the main thing. We play world fusion based primarily on balkanic gypsy music, jazz, afro cuban, etc. and the possible mixtures...
Irish is new to us, so we're trying to play as traditionally as possible.
As far as I know there are 5 musicians interested in ITM in Mexico City of which 4 are my band.....
Not a very good perspective..... :(
Tunes in Mexico City
Tunes in Mexico City
Just thought i'd post this thread for the sake of novelty. Just got back from a trip to mexico city. was there for business, but i brought my whistle and my friends insisisted on taking me to the *one* irish pub in all of mexico city, The Dubliners. this being a city of, oh, roughly twenty million people. after few guinesses into the night, i ended up playing some chunes in the corner. I was hoping to smoke out some other musicians, but to no avail. Anybody out there in the wide, wonderful world of thesession have any experience/knowledge of irish music action in mexico? looks like i'll be going down again in the not-too-distance future, and would be delighted to connect to any scene/person that could be found.
# Posted on September 30th 2003 by Brendan
Re: Tunes in Mexico City
You'll get a note from Jeremy if you're not careful! Something about checking the sessions page.
Sorry - apart from the facetious comment I can't help, but wish you luck.
Dave
# Posted on September 30th 2003 by showaddydadito
Re: Tunes in Mexico City
yes, i am aware of the prohibition against posting requests for "Hey are there any sessions in X." (Jeremy--I hope you don't mind me having bent the rule here slightly..) I did check the session part of the web site and--crazy!--there are no sessions listed in mexico. It is very well a good possibility that i went to the only irish pub in all of mexico. but that does not mean that there's nobody south of the border into the tunes.
and anyway, i wanted to brag about irish music exploits in mexico city. ;)
# Posted on September 30th 2003 by Brendan
Re: Tunes in Mexico City
I may frown upon session requests but I actively encourage bragging about Irish musical exploits in far flung corners of the globe.
Anybody else got some?
# Posted on September 30th 2003 by Jeremy
Re: Tunes in Mexico City
Hi,
It won't help you much, it is just my "Irish music exploit" in Mexico...
Last february, we were invited to a wedding in Mexico with my girlfriend, as I had never been there before, we backpacked in a round trip to end up with the wedding party.
I took my flute (a special one made by a friend of mine, a single tube of aluminium, no problem with heat, sand, usefull to take the pulp out of the coconuts, the sound is not too bad).
The wedding party was great, 100% Mexican people (except two frenchies...), we danced a lot, and as the cousins of the bride played guitar, I asked if I could join with the flute, playing a couple of reels. They liked it very much, and I became immediately popular among the bride's family, I remember I asked the bride about the nature of the transparent liquid contained in bottles on every table, it looks really good, do you give this to kids to drink ? Oh do you want to drink one with me so they can take a picture ? And the bride had the glass straight... And me ? I'm not really that thirsty yet so I'll take my time... Very unpolite...? OK... 1,2,3... ahhhhh waaaahhhhhhhhhh.....
I was given a few small glasses of this kind of water like stuff, which enhanced my playing style, at the beginning at least, but after a few more glasses produced a terrible effect on the rythm of my reels, which our mexican friends did not really notice, keeping on clapping and shouting.
How did this end is something I cannot remember apart from the fact I threw my flute in the swimming pool of the place, but they did not let me go and get it, I had to wait for the morning...
Just to tell you that the spirit of Irish music is simple and beautifull and therefore universal, and seems to work with Tequila and I guess any stuff on earth...
Robinson
PS: We have a good festival/workshop in Périgord (middle west-south-west of France), never tried an Irish music fest with Confit de canard/Magret/Foie gras cooked with Peaches& Cahors Wine & Warm weather ? I like Irish weeks in Ireland, with Irish stew & Guiness & Rain, but as Irish music is universal, sometimes you know...
# Posted on September 30th 2003 by Robinson
Re: Tunes in Mexico City
Yeah... I've played Irish music in some interesting places.
- St. Patrick's Day 2000 I played in Ryan's Irish Pub in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. The bar owner, an Irish expat, was beside himself to have some real, live Irish music in a pub in West Africa. So was I.
- St. Patrick's Day 2001 I played in an Irish pub right below the Duomo in Florence, Italy. The bar staff gave me as much beer as I could drink and I was the bar hero.
- St. Patrick's day 2003 I played in a restaurant in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. The owner played a bit of Irish music herself but thought she was the only person in Mexico who played. She almost fell out of her seat when I started busting out the tunes.
- St. Patrick's day 2004 - I'll be playing in an Irish pub in San Jose, Costa Rica... if they don't drown me out with salsa music before I'm through!
Best,
Chris
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by ChrisLaughlin
Re: Tunes in Hungary
At a conference dinner in Budapest way back with a Gypsy band entertaining, I got inspired after a few glasses of hungarian wine, and asked to borrow the fiddle to play some jigs. ¨The gypsies joined in with all their inistruments inclueing a whoa-whoa bowed string base, and the fusion fusion result would probably, if broadcast on this site, call for all the f*words in the dictionary, but it was fun. An englishman burst up on to the table and started playing spoons...
# Posted on October 1st 2003 by MrGanAinm
Re: Tunes in Mexico City
I play some ITM in Mexico City with my band, but its not the main thing. We play world fusion based primarily on balkanic gypsy music, jazz, afro cuban, etc. and the possible mixtures...
Irish is new to us, so we're trying to play as traditionally as possible.
As far as I know there are 5 musicians interested in ITM in Mexico City of which 4 are my band.....
Not a very good perspective..... :(
# Posted on August 7th 2006 by BaSaSa