Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
Life changing opportunities, long gone but never forgotten. The tunes have always been there, unjudgemental, whenever I have needed to turn to them, so the driving compulsion to play remains. Its my 'me time', as it was back then when I started.
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I've been raised with traditional music at folk like farms and festivals that I was run around to by my parents - which I'm very greatful. I started fiddle when I was eleven and studied old-time fiddling, this led to pursuing other forms of traditional music and Irish music just happened to top the list of styles I like and want to study. Add the nice people and the fun times, well it was just to good to pass up. The stories behind the songs and tunes, the circumstances of the people who played the music (historically speaking) all of that calls to me.
As to getting started, as I've said I've been fiddling for a while so switching to Irish tunes has so far simply been a matter of switching resources for learning and going to more Irish music concerts and sessions and stuff.
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
Here in chicago we have a place called 'The Old Town School of Folk Music.' (http://www.oldtownschool.org/) You can sign up for classes on anything from Didgeridoo to Salsa to classes where you'll learn how to sing like Bob Dylan. I'd gotten back from a trip to Ireland, had a nine-to-fiver type job, so i signed up for tin whistle classes. didn't know the teacher from adam, but the instant i heard my teacher play there was absolutely no turning back. i was hooked. i simply could not believe that so much music could come out of a piece of tin with a few holes in it. that was, oh, well over ten years ago. just last week i was going through some of those old cassette recordings of lessons, which i'm turning into mp3s so I don't lose them. i still learn from those lessons to this day. perhaps now some of it's starting to click too.
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
One day my wife and I were in a bookstore. She picked up a tape (not an 8 track!) by Enya and said I would really like it. So I bought it and loved it. I bought all of her CDs and then discovered L. Mckennit. Bought all of hers. Discovered that they were classed as Celtic (whatever that was). Bought a bunch more of others in that catagory. I especially like ancient sounding songs sung by ladies in gaelic.
I learned a few Carolan tunes on a recorder, guitar and an old mandolin I picked up in Italy, and that was fine with me.
One day a friend took me to a Camhaltus meeting. The music was different, and it wasn't really what I really liked (less peaceful), but the people at the meeting were great. Then I learned about and was attracted to the concept of sessions, so decided to learn the whistle and low d so I could participate. It has been, for the most part, real fun.
I still like Enya, Loreena, and Turlough a lot better, but I like ITM a lot more than at first.
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I was playing largerphone in a bush band and the rest of the band politely suggested I should take up the bodhran, they are still not much into ITM but I am besotted.
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
Its really great to hear your stories, i love to learn what ITM has given to you and the passion i can almost feel when i read each of your comments. I only recently figured out what ITM is and its been from here talking and piecing things together from your discussions. It has already changed my life tremendously as i have found out that the instrument, the violin, is not just that, its a fiddle, and the word itself has so many connotations, it suggests that my future with the music is profound. I cannot wait to delve more deeply into the music and learn more about the people who play it.
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I was hoping to "refer my learned friend to the discussion of . . . . " but I can't find it, so I'll tell my tale again.
In the seventies I was involved in the design and print of sleeves and labels for Traditional Sound Recordings in Macclesfield (see: Universe, centre of). Part of the deal was that I got a cassette tape of each album made. I ended up with around 70 albums of traditional music then being played in england. That's where my head full of tunes comes from. In the eighties my wife thought I was too full of work and had no creative interests (she was right) and presented me with a whistle and a big yellow book of ONeills. Local session was and still is good fun with lots of encouragement for all comers. Special thanks to Sully (Tony Sullivan) for his encouragement over the years.
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I went to an Irish festival in Cincinnati, OH, where I stumbled upon the Riley School of Irish Music. Fell in love with the sounds, enrolled in the school and got addicted.
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I used to listen in at sessions in Hughes and it was only a matter of time until I went to see Planxty with my family last January 05 and that was beginning of everything.
That Concert was in my head for ages.
I learnt my first tune on Paddy's day [britches full of stiches].
I am playing whistle and flute now.
I didn't start to play though for another 5 months from January.
I have had classes from Sean O' Briain, Maureen McGrattan, Conor Byrne, Tara Diamond, Catherine McEvoy and Seamus Tansey. I'm so lucky to live in Ireland, I think.
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I started listening to Irish traditional music as a substitute for Scottish folk music. I've got into Irish music for years since almost nobody plays Scottish or Cape Breton stuff here. What a shame!
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I had listened to various types of folk music my entire life, and as I was growing older, I was liking any type of electric or electronic instruments less and less, and preferring sparser arrangements. Sometime in the early 1990s (or maybe late 1980s), I started listening to a Boston radio program called Celtic Sojourn while driving up to a monthly writer's workshop, and fell in love with what I heard. A few years later, I discovered that I could participate in all this through sessions, and the rest is history.
I only sold two stories out of the many stories I wrote for that workshop, and the one editor who bought my stuff got laid off, so my writing career was a short one. But like many things in life, what seemed like a peripheral activity (listening to the radio in the car) turned out to be the key that brought me into something wonderful.
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
For some of the stories of some of the, um, more, um, senior of our posters (dig the discussion number), take a look at http://thesession.org/discussions/display.php/71 . You're right, though, Dave, I couldn't find the last time we had a round of who are you and how'd you get started threads, just the first one.
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
It was a gradual and natural progression for me. Since childhood, in the 1950’s, I’ve been drawn to folk music of all kinds. I played in rock & roll bands for a few years and enjoyed it, but my heart was always with the folk music. During the early 70’s, I fell in with a classical guitar gang, but discovering Steeleye Span, The Chieftains, Planxty and The Boys of the Lough saved me from that fate and put me back on the true path.
I’ll always dabble in all manner of folk musics, but nothing else speaks to me quite like the Irish tunes.
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I’ll bite—I’m a NooB. I backed into it; I’d never played music before.
The tale of the cheap bodhran: My 14 year old son plays drums, percussion of all types. I took him to a local seminar put on by the local drum shop, and I was impressed by what the folks were doing, and how they could get so much varied sound from such simple instruments. A little while later I was ordering some drum set parts over the internet for him and thought about the simple drums and things those folks were using, and decided to throw in something inexpensive into the order, for myself, or him, whatever. The cheapest thing was a frame drum, called a bodhran. I had no idea what it was but put it on the order. After receiving it, I started looking up (internet again) what it was. Irish drum, for Irish music, how about that, means nothing to me. But I got curious, and kept looking, figured out how to play (!), bought a few traditional Irish CDs to play along. Started getting hooked, at least for the challenge. Just another of Dad’s obscure hobbies. Then a coincidence. My son wanted me to drop him off at a concert, a band I’d never heard of, just something the local Jr High kids were into at the moment. Attempting to be the responsible parents, my wife and I said we didn’t want him going to something “adult” in nature, and to let me have a CD of the band I can listen to first to see if it’s appropriate. Turns out that it was an Irish/punk band that 1) I liked and 2) reminded me of some music I listened to a bit in the 80’s and liked, if simply for the weirdness (Pogues). There were new versions of traditional songs, and I was now more interested, not so much in the new, but the traditional, so I started looking into it further. Not just the instrument, but all aspects of the music, traditions, etc (again, internet), in which I came across the fact that there was a session close to me. I went, and to not further bore with the long tale, started to become a “regular”, acquired a tin whistle....it’s all just fun.
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I once read a book on Intra-Thoracic Medicine.
I was so enthused that I became obsessed by any subject or text beginning with those three letters.
Independent Tory Minds...hmmm, yeah, bit of an oxymoron that one but it kept my interest up...
Ipsilateral Testicular Masturba....that kept me coming back for more, but I couldn't finish it.
Iguanas To Morrow? ...definitely off the menu.
I Take Mushrooms.....well, I was young at the time.
Islamic Text Mullahs - who love their religion, and their god Allah so much that they cannot abide to see the name of his prophet Mohammed spoken or written without following it with a blessing. How very touching...and then there's...
Irish Traditional Morons...who can't even think up a decent form of shorthand without reverting to initialise the music they love so much and spend so much time discussing it all the time.
I Think Maybe there
Is Too Many sheep on this board, who obediently follow...using phrases that have been used before merely because the precedent has been set: the
ITM phrase has been used before and is now part of the vocabulary. What a Fruckin shame
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
Several years ago, Deaf Shepherd played in my city. It was like being struck by lightning, I was bowled over! I remember that I wondered, "how the heck can they learn these complicated tunes by heart, and above all, how can they play them that fast?"
I was hooked. Since that gig, ITM and STM are amongst my favourite musical genres.
Several years later, I'm learning some of those complicated tunes by heart, and I can play them at reasonable speed... One of the most rewarding musical experiences in my life!
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
jeez i dunno how to take that comment danny. was it you who said its not just your communal to another member? i just got here mate, an im sorry if i have insulted you or the music at all. Thanks to everyone who has answered my question. Thanks zina for the opportunity to read more about the people who dwell here. Instant Tragic Moment reading that comment
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
Don't worry, leigh, I wasn't getting at you in particular, just the ubiquitous overuse of the ITM thing. I get like that - one of my pet hates ....and I would never actually *say* ITM in the real world.
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
ITM - the enigmatic music:
ITM isn't Irish traditional music... it's just "the music".
You can't be an Irish traditional musician even though you play Irish traditional music unless you're born in Ireland and learned it from a family member etc.
Tunes have names, but their irrelevant and unnecessary.
At a public session you perform music -- but it's not a public performance.
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I like "trad". Trad is rad. It's also Dart backwards, which is the way my dyslexic friend Ferd writes Drat, which, in turn, is "Tard" backwards - only two casual letters away from being Dr Who's dimensional transportation device. And that's kinda cool.
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I once was a bass player in a bluegrass group ,ATM, don't you know. The Chieftains kidnapped me around 1975 and I burned all my clasical music and took up jigs and reels and bought some tap shoes. I have been happy ever since. BTW saw them (again) live at Merl Fest last April. Old guys are still kicking it. .
What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
Going to change my name to clueless! But seriously interested and would love to hear your comments....
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by leigh
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
"What interested you about ITM?"
The sound.
"How did you get started?"
Listening.
KFG
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by KFG
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
Life changing opportunities, long gone but never forgotten. The tunes have always been there, unjudgemental, whenever I have needed to turn to them, so the driving compulsion to play remains. Its my 'me time', as it was back then when I started.
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by Clear Drops
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I've been raised with traditional music at folk like farms and festivals that I was run around to by my parents - which I'm very greatful. I started fiddle when I was eleven and studied old-time fiddling, this led to pursuing other forms of traditional music and Irish music just happened to top the list of styles I like and want to study. Add the nice people and the fun times, well it was just to good to pass up. The stories behind the songs and tunes, the circumstances of the people who played the music (historically speaking) all of that calls to me.
As to getting started, as I've said I've been fiddling for a while so switching to Irish tunes has so far simply been a matter of switching resources for learning and going to more Irish music concerts and sessions and stuff.
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by musicfan
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
Here in chicago we have a place called 'The Old Town School of Folk Music.' (http://www.oldtownschool.org/) You can sign up for classes on anything from Didgeridoo to Salsa to classes where you'll learn how to sing like Bob Dylan. I'd gotten back from a trip to Ireland, had a nine-to-fiver type job, so i signed up for tin whistle classes. didn't know the teacher from adam, but the instant i heard my teacher play there was absolutely no turning back. i was hooked. i simply could not believe that so much music could come out of a piece of tin with a few holes in it. that was, oh, well over ten years ago. just last week i was going through some of those old cassette recordings of lessons, which i'm turning into mp3s so I don't lose them. i still learn from those lessons to this day. perhaps now some of it's starting to click too.
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by Brendan
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I was minding my own business, messing around with electric violin in rock bands, when it snuck up behind me and bit me on the.... ;>}
When friends ask me what happened, I babble something about "ancient and noble rock-n-roll designed for the fiddle!"
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by John Galt
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
One day my wife and I were in a bookstore. She picked up a tape (not an 8 track!) by Enya and said I would really like it. So I bought it and loved it. I bought all of her CDs and then discovered L. Mckennit. Bought all of hers. Discovered that they were classed as Celtic (whatever that was). Bought a bunch more of others in that catagory. I especially like ancient sounding songs sung by ladies in gaelic.
I learned a few Carolan tunes on a recorder, guitar and an old mandolin I picked up in Italy, and that was fine with me.
One day a friend took me to a Camhaltus meeting. The music was different, and it wasn't really what I really liked (less peaceful), but the people at the meeting were great. Then I learned about and was attracted to the concept of sessions, so decided to learn the whistle and low d so I could participate. It has been, for the most part, real fun.
I still like Enya, Loreena, and Turlough a lot better, but I like ITM a lot more than at first.
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by feardearg
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I was playing largerphone in a bush band and the rest of the band politely suggested I should take up the bodhran, they are still not much into ITM but I am besotted.
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by mcknowall
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
the drinkin'
the women
the smokin'
the fartin'
the arguin'
the cryin'
the singin'
& the playin' of course
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by Ripthecalico
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
Its really great to hear your stories, i love to learn what ITM has given to you and the passion i can almost feel when i read each of your comments. I only recently figured out what ITM is and its been from here talking and piecing things together from your discussions. It has already changed my life tremendously as i have found out that the instrument, the violin, is not just that, its a fiddle, and the word itself has so many connotations, it suggests that my future with the music is profound. I cannot wait to delve more deeply into the music and learn more about the people who play it.
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by leigh
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
And thats you guys thanks so much for sharing your lives and allowing me to see a part of it.
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by leigh
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I was hoping to "refer my learned friend to the discussion of . . . . " but I can't find it, so I'll tell my tale again.
In the seventies I was involved in the design and print of sleeves and labels for Traditional Sound Recordings in Macclesfield (see: Universe, centre of). Part of the deal was that I got a cassette tape of each album made. I ended up with around 70 albums of traditional music then being played in england. That's where my head full of tunes comes from. In the eighties my wife thought I was too full of work and had no creative interests (she was right) and presented me with a whistle and a big yellow book of ONeills. Local session was and still is good fun with lots of encouragement for all comers. Special thanks to Sully (Tony Sullivan) for his encouragement over the years.
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by showaddydadito
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I went to an Irish festival in Cincinnati, OH, where I stumbled upon the Riley School of Irish Music. Fell in love with the sounds, enrolled in the school and got addicted.
Ken
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by RogueFiddler
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I used to listen in at sessions in Hughes and it was only a matter of time until I went to see Planxty with my family last January 05 and that was beginning of everything.
That Concert was in my head for ages.
I learnt my first tune on Paddy's day [britches full of stiches].
I am playing whistle and flute now.
I didn't start to play though for another 5 months from January.
I have had classes from Sean O' Briain, Maureen McGrattan, Conor Byrne, Tara Diamond, Catherine McEvoy and Seamus Tansey. I'm so lucky to live in Ireland, I think.
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by flauta dolce
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
Rugby of all things! London Irish.
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by country bumpkin
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I started listening to Irish traditional music as a substitute for Scottish folk music. I've got into Irish music for years since almost nobody plays Scottish or Cape Breton stuff here. What a shame!
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by slainte
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I had listened to various types of folk music my entire life, and as I was growing older, I was liking any type of electric or electronic instruments less and less, and preferring sparser arrangements. Sometime in the early 1990s (or maybe late 1980s), I started listening to a Boston radio program called Celtic Sojourn while driving up to a monthly writer's workshop, and fell in love with what I heard. A few years later, I discovered that I could participate in all this through sessions, and the rest is history.
I only sold two stories out of the many stories I wrote for that workshop, and the one editor who bought my stuff got laid off, so my writing career was a short one. But like many things in life, what seemed like a peripheral activity (listening to the radio in the car) turned out to be the key that brought me into something wonderful.
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by AlBrown
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
For some of the stories of some of the, um, more, um, senior of our posters (dig the discussion number), take a look at http://thesession.org/discussions/display.php/71 . You're right, though, Dave, I couldn't find the last time we had a round of who are you and how'd you get started threads, just the first one.
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by Zina Lee
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
Wow, that was a blast from the past. Thanks for digging that one up Zeens.
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by Will Harmon
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
It was a gradual and natural progression for me. Since childhood, in the 1950’s, I’ve been drawn to folk music of all kinds. I played in rock & roll bands for a few years and enjoyed it, but my heart was always with the folk music. During the early 70’s, I fell in with a classical guitar gang, but discovering Steeleye Span, The Chieftains, Planxty and The Boys of the Lough saved me from that fate and put me back on the true path.
I’ll always dabble in all manner of folk musics, but nothing else speaks to me quite like the Irish tunes.
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by Bob himself
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I’ll bite—I’m a NooB. I backed into it; I’d never played music before.
The tale of the cheap bodhran: My 14 year old son plays drums, percussion of all types. I took him to a local seminar put on by the local drum shop, and I was impressed by what the folks were doing, and how they could get so much varied sound from such simple instruments. A little while later I was ordering some drum set parts over the internet for him and thought about the simple drums and things those folks were using, and decided to throw in something inexpensive into the order, for myself, or him, whatever. The cheapest thing was a frame drum, called a bodhran. I had no idea what it was but put it on the order. After receiving it, I started looking up (internet again) what it was. Irish drum, for Irish music, how about that, means nothing to me. But I got curious, and kept looking, figured out how to play (!), bought a few traditional Irish CDs to play along. Started getting hooked, at least for the challenge. Just another of Dad’s obscure hobbies. Then a coincidence. My son wanted me to drop him off at a concert, a band I’d never heard of, just something the local Jr High kids were into at the moment. Attempting to be the responsible parents, my wife and I said we didn’t want him going to something “adult” in nature, and to let me have a CD of the band I can listen to first to see if it’s appropriate. Turns out that it was an Irish/punk band that 1) I liked and 2) reminded me of some music I listened to a bit in the 80’s and liked, if simply for the weirdness (Pogues). There were new versions of traditional songs, and I was now more interested, not so much in the new, but the traditional, so I started looking into it further. Not just the instrument, but all aspects of the music, traditions, etc (again, internet), in which I came across the fact that there was a session close to me. I went, and to not further bore with the long tale, started to become a “regular”, acquired a tin whistle....it’s all just fun.
# Posted on January 18th 2006 by TiiiM
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I once read a book on Intra-Thoracic Medicine.
I was so enthused that I became obsessed by any subject or text beginning with those three letters.
Independent Tory Minds...hmmm, yeah, bit of an oxymoron that one but it kept my interest up...
Ipsilateral Testicular Masturba....that kept me coming back for more, but I couldn't finish it.
Iguanas To Morrow? ...definitely off the menu.
I Take Mushrooms.....well, I was young at the time.
Islamic Text Mullahs - who love their religion, and their god Allah so much that they cannot abide to see the name of his prophet Mohammed spoken or written without following it with a blessing. How very touching...and then there's...
Irish Traditional Morons...who can't even think up a decent form of shorthand without reverting to initialise the music they love so much and spend so much time discussing it all the time.
I Think Maybe there
Is Too Many sheep on this board, who obediently follow...using phrases that have been used before merely because the precedent has been set: the
ITM phrase has been used before and is now part of the vocabulary. What a Fruckin shame
# Posted on January 19th 2006 by Rudall the time
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
"Iguanas To Morrow? ...definitely off the menu."
Ya know how they say everything "Tastes like chicken"?
I've had iguana; and sure enough, tastes like . . .lizard.
"I Take Mushrooms.....well, I was young at the time."
Come to think of it it was the mushroom shaman that brought in the iguana too. I wonder . . .
Nah! I probably would have eaten it anyway. I was young at the time.
KFG
# Posted on January 19th 2006 by KFG
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
Several years ago, Deaf Shepherd played in my city. It was like being struck by lightning, I was bowled over! I remember that I wondered, "how the heck can they learn these complicated tunes by heart, and above all, how can they play them that fast?"
I was hooked. Since that gig, ITM and STM are amongst my favourite musical genres.
Several years later, I'm learning some of those complicated tunes by heart, and I can play them at reasonable speed... One of the most rewarding musical experiences in my life!
# Posted on January 19th 2006 by Guidus
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
jeez i dunno how to take that comment danny. was it you who said its not just your communal to another member? i just got here mate, an im sorry if i have insulted you or the music at all. Thanks to everyone who has answered my question. Thanks zina for the opportunity to read more about the people who dwell here. Instant Tragic Moment reading that comment
# Posted on January 19th 2006 by leigh
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
Don't worry, leigh, I wasn't getting at you in particular, just the ubiquitous overuse of the ITM thing. I get like that - one of my pet hates ....and I would never actually *say* ITM in the real world.
# Posted on January 19th 2006 by Rudall the time
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
ITM ITM ITM ner
# Posted on January 19th 2006 by Just a person
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
How do you pronounce ITM?
Itmmm?
Eye Tea Emm?
Item?
?
# Posted on January 19th 2006 by Rudall the time
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
"The Music"
# Posted on January 19th 2006 by Just a person
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
As I thought.
# Posted on January 19th 2006 by Rudall the time
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
How do you pronounce ITM?
"it'm"
A bit like pronouncing '-ism' with a lisp and an Irish (not Ulster) accent. Sorry - Is that acceptable on this forum?
# Posted on January 19th 2006 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
"Eye Tee Em, Eye Tee Em!"
Isn't that what Dorothy was wailing when she was captured by the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz?
# Posted on January 19th 2006 by AlBrown
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
sorry i got defensive. its just a typing thing, you wouldnt want to write Irish Traditional Music every time you have a convo!
# Posted on January 19th 2006 by leigh
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
Not to worry, Leigh. Believe me, you're not the first to have said that in the same situation, nor will you be the last.
# Posted on January 19th 2006 by Zina Lee
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
quirl you really are a stirrer!
# Posted on January 19th 2006 by leigh
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
Ok i feel better now thanks zina
# Posted on January 19th 2006 by leigh
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
ITM - the enigmatic music:
ITM isn't Irish traditional music... it's just "the music".
You can't be an Irish traditional musician even though you play Irish traditional music unless you're born in Ireland and learned it from a family member etc.
Tunes have names, but their irrelevant and unnecessary.
At a public session you perform music -- but it's not a public performance.
# Posted on January 20th 2006 by Phantom Button
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
Well, I'm glad to see we finally got that all straight.
# Posted on January 20th 2006 by Will Harmon
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
An "ITM" is where you get your cash in Australia
.
I just liked the tunes and then I met some people who played them
# Posted on January 20th 2006 by Bren
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
or should I say, your "kesh"
Yes, you take Kesh out of the ITM before going to the pub.
# Posted on January 20th 2006 by Bren
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I like "trad". Trad is rad. It's also Dart backwards, which is the way my dyslexic friend Ferd writes Drat, which, in turn, is "Tard" backwards - only two casual letters away from being Dr Who's dimensional transportation device. And that's kinda cool.
# Posted on January 20th 2006 by Q
Re: What interested you about ITM and how did you get started?
I once was a bass player in a bluegrass group ,ATM, don't you know. The Chieftains kidnapped me around 1975 and I burned all my clasical music and took up jigs and reels and bought some tap shoes. I have been happy ever since. BTW saw them (again) live at Merl Fest last April. Old guys are still kicking it. .
# Posted on January 22nd 2006 by mother