have played in Kilkenny with a trad/folk band callin ourselves Turas. mainly becasue at the time the lads started they didnt have a better name and it just stuck at home with them.
Anyone else outthere callin themselves turas, trad, celtic, folk or otherwise? cause we reckon theres cound t have been about 50 of them!
Turas was the name of the trad group which included concertina player Padraig Rynne, piano player Padraic O'Reilly, flute player Ronan Ryan and fiddler, Liam O'Connor back in the mid nineties. They've been split up for many years so you'll probably have no trouble using the name now.
'hungry grass' takes a bit of cutting in the back field too, to be stacked into sacs
and years ago, i did a 'st parick's' college gig with a young, strong combo of pipes & flute (Ring & Keegan) as 'The Pioneers of The Sacred Heart' _my dad wasn't too impressed with that name at the time, as he's a real one, and i took ''the pin'' too but barely lasted two weeks with it
but the best name yet, i think, was simply 'Alana' _? mid-'70's on Brendan Mulkere's own label; these were a group of youngsters with the strong concertina playing of Mandy Murrey (now in brighton); her grandad called her by this name when she was a child
five years ago, nicola and i gave it to our second daughter
"hungry grass" goes back to the time of The Famine, when people dropped dead in the fields of starvation. The story is that if you get lost and wander across such a patch of ground where someone had died of starvation a century and a half ago, you too will fall exhausted to the ground. The remedy is always to carry a bit of bread with you, and this effects instant recovery.
I wonder if this reflects instances of travellers in the past running out of food and going into low blood-sugar levels, to which the cure is ingesting carbohydrate as quick as possible.
Band name turas
Band name turas
have played in Kilkenny with a trad/folk band callin ourselves Turas. mainly becasue at the time the lads started they didnt have a better name and it just stuck at home with them.
Anyone else outthere callin themselves turas, trad, celtic, folk or otherwise? cause we reckon theres cound t have been about 50 of them!
# Posted on May 8th 2005 by phiddle
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I have a CD by a band called "Turas" recorded in 1997.
# Posted on May 8th 2005 by Kenny
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And then there's always the American band "Journey" ;)
# Posted on May 8th 2005 by MacTireRua
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Apart from being a journey, T(o)uras(s) might be someting you get from sitting on your butt for a long time travelling between gigs!
# Posted on May 8th 2005 by On Sabbatical
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I had a band that played Middle Eastern trad called "The Baghdad Bad Boys." I don't think I have to worry about anyone stealing that name.
# Posted on May 8th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Turas was the name of the trad group which included concertina player Padraig Rynne, piano player Padraic O'Reilly, flute player Ronan Ryan and fiddler, Liam O'Connor back in the mid nineties. They've been split up for many years so you'll probably have no trouble using the name now.
# Posted on May 8th 2005 by Bannerman
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saw a band from tasmania at the national festival in canberra this year who were playing under that name.
# Posted on May 9th 2005 by late in the evening
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I'd ask permission from both before attempting to use the name. The Irish "Turas" was distributed by Claddagh.
# Posted on May 9th 2005 by kkrell
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http://www.turas.ie/ 'nuff said!
# Posted on May 9th 2005 by breandan
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I have a band (kinda)....and we call ourselves "Na dTonnta".....hope there is no-one else with that name out there!!!
# Posted on May 9th 2005 by Edja
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"The Fiddlin' Lawyers" is a good, honest name, and can deter law suits.
# Posted on May 10th 2005 by bodhran bliss
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'hungry grass' takes a bit of cutting in the back field too, to be stacked into sacs
and years ago, i did a 'st parick's' college gig with a young, strong combo of pipes & flute (Ring & Keegan) as 'The Pioneers of The Sacred Heart' _my dad wasn't too impressed with that name at the time, as he's a real one, and i took ''the pin'' too but barely lasted two weeks with it
but the best name yet, i think, was simply 'Alana' _? mid-'70's on Brendan Mulkere's own label; these were a group of youngsters with the strong concertina playing of Mandy Murrey (now in brighton); her grandad called her by this name when she was a child
five years ago, nicola and i gave it to our second daughter
# Posted on May 10th 2005 by lisaniska
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"hungry grass" goes back to the time of The Famine, when people dropped dead in the fields of starvation. The story is that if you get lost and wander across such a patch of ground where someone had died of starvation a century and a half ago, you too will fall exhausted to the ground. The remedy is always to carry a bit of bread with you, and this effects instant recovery.
I wonder if this reflects instances of travellers in the past running out of food and going into low blood-sugar levels, to which the cure is ingesting carbohydrate as quick as possible.
Trevor
# Posted on May 10th 2005 by Trevor Jennings