An Australian concertina player is looking at spending a month in Lyon, France this August. She's hoping to indulge in some French and Irish music while there. Anyone offer any advice or connections? Do we have any musicians in Lyons?
Actually, Lyon is one of the big place in France for trad music, of all kinds. Between concerts, balls (called "bals folk"), sessions, workshops, the choice might even be too much for one month... There's even a Lyon branch of the RSCDS (very dynamic !)...
"Mumbai becomes Bombay"
er, it was the other way round. There's no record of it ever being called "Mumbai" before it was called "Bombay" and "Peking" was a close English transliteration of the Cantonese name for the city which possibly predates the Mandarin "Beijing".
If I was speaking in French I'd say your home is l'Australie and mine is l'Ecosse and there's no reason why , likewise, you shouldn't use the English names for French places when speaking in English.
Having said that, "Lyons" for Lyon has fallen out of fashion these days, so you can call me un smug ghitte if you wish and raise a glass to Joe Lyons, the second of the seven overtly Irish-Australian PMs so far. (Scullin, Lyons, Fadden, Curtin, Ford, Chifley and Keating, since you ask)
Irish and French music around Lyons
Irish and French music around Lyons
Hi
An Australian concertina player is looking at spending a month in Lyon, France this August. She's hoping to indulge in some French and Irish music while there. Anyone offer any advice or connections? Do we have any musicians in Lyons?
Terry
# Posted on June 9th 2011 by Terry McGee
Re: Irish and French music around Lyon
Whoops, I meant Lyon, not Lyons. I used to live in a suburb in Canberra called Lyons!
Thierry
# Posted on June 9th 2011 by Terry McGee
Re: Irish and French music around Lyons
There are many musicians in Lyon, many sessions and lot of traditional music, I'm sure that you can get some information there :
http://www.cmtra.org/spip.php
and for irish music sessions :
http://lyon.session.online.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=7
And there are people from Lyon on our flutes and whistles forum : http://whistle.xooit.fr/index.php , so you can ask there too, even in english, I'm sure you'll have answers very quickly.
# Posted on June 9th 2011 by Bran Ruz
Re: Irish and French music around Lyons
Don't feel bad.
It is (or was) Lyons in English, and Lyon in French
# Posted on June 9th 2011 by Bren
Re: Irish and French music around Lyons
Thanks Bran Ruz!
Sigh yes, Mumbai becomes Bombay, Beijing Peking, Torino Turin, etc etc.
To paraphrase Dr Doolittle, "Why can't the English teach their children how to LISTEN"!
Terry
# Posted on June 10th 2011 by Terry McGee
Re: Irish and French music around Lyons
Actually, Lyon is one of the big place in France for trad music, of all kinds. Between concerts, balls (called "bals folk"), sessions, workshops, the choice might even be too much for one month... There's even a Lyon branch of the RSCDS (very dynamic !)...
# Posted on June 10th 2011 by Nikita Pfister
Re: Irish and French music around Lyons
"Mumbai becomes Bombay"
er, it was the other way round. There's no record of it ever being called "Mumbai" before it was called "Bombay" and "Peking" was a close English transliteration of the Cantonese name for the city which possibly predates the Mandarin "Beijing".
If I was speaking in French I'd say your home is l'Australie and mine is l'Ecosse and there's no reason why , likewise, you shouldn't use the English names for French places when speaking in English.
Having said that, "Lyons" for Lyon has fallen out of fashion these days, so you can call me un smug ghitte if you wish and raise a glass to Joe Lyons, the second of the seven overtly Irish-Australian PMs so far. (Scullin, Lyons, Fadden, Curtin, Ford, Chifley and Keating, since you ask)
# Posted on June 10th 2011 by Bren