So, I was sat in the Royal Oak, at Meavy in South Devon last night and a group of guys walked in with assorted instruments and started playing. By the time they finished the place was packed. Them, their mates, some people who been mountain biking on the moors and a load of regulars, including the local morris side. Great fun. Turns out they are Mad Dog McCrea and do this quite a lot around Plymouth.
I seem to remember this sort of thing being fairly common back in the 70s but I have only seen it one other time down here, in the last thirty years. A great pity. Thanks Mad Dog, .
Another fiddler and myself used to take over a corner of the local pub on whim now and then, and you never knew who else would pop in and what might transpire. But we've both fallen into jobs with less flexible hours now. No joy.
Just before I moved to Canada, I was trying to cross into Quebec to attend a session there, and I got stopped at the border twice and turned back because I didn't have a work permit, which was required for performing artists working in a pub or restaurant.
I have always wanted to stop at that border crossing and ask a really complicated immigration question (the kind they have to look up) then start an impromptu session in the lobby of the immigration area at the border crossing, so that they may learn about what a session is.
impromptu sessions
impromptu sessions
So, I was sat in the Royal Oak, at Meavy in South Devon last night and a group of guys walked in with assorted instruments and started playing. By the time they finished the place was packed. Them, their mates, some people who been mountain biking on the moors and a load of regulars, including the local morris side. Great fun. Turns out they are Mad Dog McCrea and do this quite a lot around Plymouth.
I seem to remember this sort of thing being fairly common back in the 70s but I have only seen it one other time down here, in the last thirty years. A great pity. Thanks Mad Dog, .
Does it happen down your way?
# Posted on November 17th 2011 by greg sheils
Re: impromptu sessions
Nope, but sounds like great fun.
# Posted on November 18th 2011 by AlBrown
Re: impromptu sessions
Another fiddler and myself used to take over a corner of the local pub on whim now and then, and you never knew who else would pop in and what might transpire. But we've both fallen into jobs with less flexible hours now. No joy.
# Posted on November 18th 2011 by Will Harmon
Re: impromptu sessions
Do they ever go to pubs in Portmadog, N. Wales ...?
# Posted on November 18th 2011 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: impromptu sessions
I've always wanted to do a kitchen session...
...in an Ikea
# Posted on November 19th 2011 by Pontus Adefjord
Re: impromptu sessions
Just before I moved to Canada, I was trying to cross into Quebec to attend a session there, and I got stopped at the border twice and turned back because I didn't have a work permit, which was required for performing artists working in a pub or restaurant.
I have always wanted to stop at that border crossing and ask a really complicated immigration question (the kind they have to look up) then start an impromptu session in the lobby of the immigration area at the border crossing, so that they may learn about what a session is.
# Posted on November 28th 2011 by HipCzeck