The best session I was ever at in my life was Vinnie Kilduff, Noel Hill, and some excellent guitar player, Dont know his name. It seems to me that this standard of music is impossible to find anymore as I have just come from 2 weeks of being at every possible session I could on a tour of Ireland. What a shame.
Surely there were more than the three of them, three is only a session by the skin of its teeth. Special sessions need a lot of different factors to be right and that doesn't necessarily happen that often.
i was fortunate enough to be able to play in multiple sessions in ireland for a stretch of weeks last summer, and the same thing the year before. and what i received what a dizzying abundance of heart-cracklingl, joy-inducing experiences in playing and listening.
i will say that the background-noise levels were too often dismaying and even painful disgusting, but no different from the dismay i've been feeling about this in the u.s.
but in terms of what you are calling "this standard of music".....it's there. and it's not rare.
One of the best sessions was in Quilly's in Milltown again the surperb Noel Hill with Sharon Shannon, they played for hours and Noel dumped the contents of Sharon's handbag onto the table to get a nosey, she was mortified.
To this day Noel asks did you see what was in it, only those who were there know....
I wish Tom "the gentleman"Quilly would open the bar just for Willie , class bar and I would say with out a doubt that al least 8 of my top ten sessions have been there. The Paddy Keenan one as well , and Mariead, Ciaran Curran,Dermie Diamond session under the Brass Fiddle...those where the days
Imagine that. Every other session is sh!te compared to the one you sat in with Vinnie.
VK is an amazing player it has to be said.
Therefore does that mean the rest of us rubbish?
I think we should all just burn our instruments and sit and watch Eastenders.
WTF is your point Andrew?
Are you any good yourself?
Even if you are, still, wtf is the point of your post?
Sheesh, danny. No sense in getting huffy... Unless you were at one of the sessions he attended in the last couple weeks... In which case, it sounds like you didn't measure up to Noel Hill and Vinnie Kilduff--which isn't much of an insult either (I certainly wouldn't be all that insulted).
The guy had a great night of music, and was lamenting that he hasn't been able to replicate it since. Something of a blessing and a curse, really. Honestly, I would have loved to have been there for that (provided I didn't ruin it).
...In which case, I'd say he's about as qualified as anyone to call the rest of us rubbish--not that the rest of us need necessarily agree with him... Though I sincerely doubt he would ever do such a thing.
Vinnie Kilduff
Vinnie Kilduff
The best session I was ever at in my life was Vinnie Kilduff, Noel Hill, and some excellent guitar player, Dont know his name. It seems to me that this standard of music is impossible to find anymore as I have just come from 2 weeks of being at every possible session I could on a tour of Ireland. What a shame.
Andrew
# Posted on May 29th 2010 by Andrew Mac
Re: Vinnie Kilduff
It doesn't mean that a thing is impossible just because you didn't achieve it in two weeks.
# Posted on May 29th 2010 by DaveL35
Re: Vinnie Kilduff
Surely there were more than the three of them, three is only a session by the skin of its teeth. Special sessions need a lot of different factors to be right and that doesn't necessarily happen that often.
# Posted on May 29th 2010 by bogman
Re: Vinnie Kilduff
i was fortunate enough to be able to play in multiple sessions in ireland for a stretch of weeks last summer, and the same thing the year before. and what i received what a dizzying abundance of heart-cracklingl, joy-inducing experiences in playing and listening.
i will say that the background-noise levels were too often dismaying and even painful disgusting, but no different from the dismay i've been feeling about this in the u.s.
but in terms of what you are calling "this standard of music".....it's there. and it's not rare.
# Posted on May 29th 2010 by ceemonster
Re: Vinnie Kilduff
Tell us where you went, Andrew Mac.
If you hit the main tourist spots, there's more than a hefty chance that you'd miss the kind of music for which you were searching.
# Posted on May 29th 2010 by MacCruiskeen
Re: Vinnie Kilduff
"It seems to me that this standard of music is impossible to find anymore..."
Yes, everything was better back in 'the day.'
# Posted on May 29th 2010 by leoj
Re: Vinnie Kilduff
Were you playing or listening?
# Posted on May 29th 2010 by gam
Re: Vinnie Kilduff
"Back in the day" I love that expression. Back in the day of air raids and smallpox and nonstop ecstatic dancing!
# Posted on May 29th 2010 by gravelwalks
Re: Vinnie Kilduff
Nostalgia, it ain't what it used to be.
# Posted on May 29th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Vinnie Kilduff
It never was, Fiddler.
Why, I can remember
...
...
Hmmn.
Actually, I can't.
# Posted on May 30th 2010 by Piece
Re: Vinnie Kilduff
One of the best sessions was in Quilly's in Milltown again the surperb Noel Hill with Sharon Shannon, they played for hours and Noel dumped the contents of Sharon's handbag onto the table to get a nosey, she was mortified.
To this day Noel asks did you see what was in it, only those who were there know....
I wish Tom "the gentleman"Quilly would open the bar just for Willie , class bar and I would say with out a doubt that al least 8 of my top ten sessions have been there. The Paddy Keenan one as well , and Mariead, Ciaran Curran,Dermie Diamond session under the Brass Fiddle...those where the days
# Posted on May 30th 2010 by belfastrab
Re: Vinnie Kilduff
Imagine that. Every other session is sh!te compared to the one you sat in with Vinnie.
VK is an amazing player it has to be said.
Therefore does that mean the rest of us rubbish?
I think we should all just burn our instruments and sit and watch Eastenders.
WTF is your point Andrew?
Are you any good yourself?
Even if you are, still, wtf is the point of your post?
# Posted on May 30th 2010 by Rudall the time
Re: Vinnie Kilduff
Sheesh, danny. No sense in getting huffy... Unless you were at one of the sessions he attended in the last couple weeks... In which case, it sounds like you didn't measure up to Noel Hill and Vinnie Kilduff--which isn't much of an insult either (I certainly wouldn't be all that insulted).
The guy had a great night of music, and was lamenting that he hasn't been able to replicate it since. Something of a blessing and a curse, really. Honestly, I would have loved to have been there for that (provided I didn't ruin it).
I have a suspicion that "Andrew Mac" is this guy: http://celticgrooves.homestead.com/CG_MacNamara_Andrew_Dawn.html
...In which case, I'd say he's about as qualified as anyone to call the rest of us rubbish--not that the rest of us need necessarily agree with him... Though I sincerely doubt he would ever do such a thing.
# Posted on June 1st 2010 by Georgi
Re: Vinnie Kilduff
Georgi, I'd be astonished if 'Andrew Mac' is the accordian player you mention.
He plays all the time with very fine musicians around Ennis and the rest of Clare.
He doesn't need to spend two weeks touring Ireland to find quality music - and if he did, I don't think he'd come here to whinge about it.
# Posted on June 4th 2010 by DaveL35