Well, has anyone got anything lined up? Gigs/sessions/nothing at all?
When I lived in Belfast I used to play with the McPeake school of music for the St Patrick's Day mass - something they've been doing for years. The music sounded wonderful in Clonard monastery, especially when Francie Snr and Francie jnr played a slow air with harmonies. I also loved when we played St Patrick's Day and two Irish dancers would dance up the central aisle and lay the altar. The choir sang hymns in Irish - beautiful. No matter what your religious persuasion I couldn't imagine anyone not being touched by the ceremony.
Then we would retire to The Cabin pub around the corner. There was seating for about 5 people but they seemed to cram 50 or so in. All this followed by a day and evening of sessions around town or "abroad".
This year I'm playing in Tommy Flynn's - Camden in the afternoon (musos and supporters welcome) and then off to Limerick for the weekend on the evening flight to Shannon. Although I miss the "good old days" in Belfast I'm still looking forward to this weekend.
Oh Mary this London’s a wonderful sight
Where the people are working by day and by night.
They don’t sow potatoes nor barley nor wheat
But there’s gangs of them digging for gold in the street.
(we might be doing that one down at the Beaconsfield in Cambridge)
I'm leading an assembly for the 450 or so students at the elementary (is this primary school for the rest of the world?)school I teach at. Obviously not a paid gig or anything, but should be interesting. Will have tunes, songs, dances, etc. Might drop in and play somewhere later at night, but the main thing is the assembly.
I'm gonny be playing a few tunes at my wee boy's nursery school in the morning, then after setting up some fly experiments (unrelated), off to Shillelagh's for tunes.
Still don't have anyone else for the Saturday thing at Twickers though, any takers? Rugby club, so it's a possible "bank job"....if you know what I mean....
Probably take a saunter up to Flanagan's Bar, Dunedin and see what's happening. I don't hold out too much hope for tunes though as most other musos will probably be working. But who knows, if you're not in you canny win ! eh ? They've a decent pinta black stuff there anyhows
We’re performing at a senior day care center in the morning, in the theater at a local museum along with a story teller in the afternoon, and then an eighteenth century tavern at night. And the beat goes on all weekend as the St. Patrick’s Day parade is on for Sunday in Pearl River, NY. It’s a big one. They close nearly all the streets in town by 11 AM. We’re playing at a private parade party in the afternoon and then the pub at the parade finish line at night. Saturday was to be off but I awoke to an email today about a gig in the evening. Looks like a two plus bottle weekend to me!
Paid gig at a nursing home in the afternoon, and another in the evening at a Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick dinner (their 106th annual event) in Providence RI.
An afternoon session in one place, and an evening one in another, personnel varying because certain legal-minded individual had an arguement with evening venue's publican and won't cross threshhold, nor let young son rising fiddler do so either, and SO comes home from proper job to play evening session.
Doesn't life get complicated ?
Jason, that is a paid gig you're doing. it's just not specially paid.
We had a very nice St. Pat's plan, but it all went down the drain. Sigh.
Actually, I'm being hired by my friends from a certain band, whose backer could not participate in the gig. I still have yet to get acquainted with the repertoire.
Anyway, I've already had my St. Pat's night - two days ago Emer Mayock and Donal Siggins were playing in a pub in Poznan. Truly unforgettable.
We'll have a paid gig in the afternoon and another big special one in the evening. You cannot find many ITM lovers in Valencia (Spain) very often, but that special night they all seem toi get together in this pub where we're playing, so it is really remarkable and I hope I'll enjoy it as much as these last years.
Happy St Paddy's Day, everyone! It's already arrived, but there isn't any action yet, seeing as its 12.50 am. Staff club this afternoon.
I was in London in 79 showaddydidato. I think 77 was worse though, black ice on the streets, dirty mushy snow, temps that stayed below 0 degrees all day.
Good luck to those with plans; you know that something will likely go amiss tomorrow so I'm expecting the worst. At any rate, hope everyone has a great day!!
Technically, my St. Patrick's celebration started Tuesday night, at this quite unique party I go to most every year (held in a loading dock/storage area for a Zamboni machine at a college athletic center).
It continues tonight with a CD release concert by Matt and Shannon Heaton I've been looking forward to for months.
And all comes to a head tomorrow when a friend of mine and I play at a stoss dinner club in downtown Boston. Although we've played at some sessions, and performed a few times as part of a larger ensemble, we've never actually worked together as a duo. So since we landed this gig a couple of weeks ago, we've been passing along recordings and notes about our repertoires, preferences, quirks and so forth; we're both pretty busy so we just didn't have the opportunity to rehearse!
Still, I'm quite looking forward to it. I'm sure I'll definitely earn my Harp/Guinness imbibement this year.
Oh, and as an epilogue, if you will, March 18th is my lovely wife's birthday.
Not sure what went wrong there, but for "stoss" substitute "stoss."
I didn't even think "stoss" was a real word, but apparently it means "Facing the direction from which a glacier moves. Used of a rock or slope in its path."
I'm not sure what exactly I will encounter at the aforementioned dinner club, but probably not a glacier.
Arghh! I realize now that there's an anti-cussword protective screen built in here, so when I type in "sw*nk" (subsitute "a" for the "*"), it sounds the alarm bell.
Two easy gigs in a non-pub environment, away from drinkers, shouters, and requests for "The Fields of Athenry", "The Black Velvet Band", "The Wild Rover" or "the Unicorn Song", hopefully. Just a mix of Chicago irish session tunes, west Clare, and piping standards on flat pipes and fiddle. Should be fun and reasonably lucrative.
Pop over to my dad's in the afternoon to watch the hurling on t.v. then go home and save my fire for Saturday; a trip to Dublin to see Brian Friel's Faith Healer then up to Louth to get utterly trashed.
It's a good'n'busy time for us, and great springlike wather for it too, here in the midst of the US.
We're in a different line-up from the std Culchies trio, with Matt Williamson on concertina and fiddle and Erik Peterson (late of Minneapolis) on mandolin, tenor banjo and zouk. We had Jamie Gans lined up to play fiddle, but I think that he won't be able to make it.
Tonight we have a private gig, a combination St. Pat's and grand opening for a small professional office, good $, and probably nice and quiet, but not wild fun other than the good time of playing together.
For the Saint's Friday, we have a fun/funny setup with an R&B band, to split the night in a nice local joint, the Players Pub.
This band has a regular monthly Friday night in which they invite another band to trade sets and then join in a jam (!!), and since their night is this Friday, they invited us! We'll start the night and we've worked up some sets with them. I'm -no- fan whatsoever of "Celtic Rock," but what do you do when the neighbors not only share the $$, but want to play along?!? <GGG> We've taught them some sets from the CD, and they want us to join in some R&B 'classics', too. Matt & Erik sound great with them, and Min can do some Bo Diddley (Burundi) beats on the bodhrán... Wotta hoot!
Saturday we same four are off to an art gallery/coffeehouse for an afternoon gig, and then across the state to the southwest for another private party where we'll join some good friends and other great players from that area.
Sunday to Louisville for a session with our pals there in Molly Malone's Pub. That's always a great time, and if the crowds aren't too mad (or too mad for the basketball games on tv) it will be another grand one.
One upon a time there was a Irish City Council that was so mean that they would not allow their administerees to have sponsored fun on St Pat's day.
Sounds like a fairy tale?
This is a true story now and you've guessed right if you guessed: 'North' and 'Belfast'.
But the story is turning into a historical moment for the BCC has agreed for the first time this year (in years /at all??) to finance some of the fun at long last (after many a letter, petitions, outraged stances and the organising -anyoldhow- of parades gigs and craic on the said date by the faithful (StPat's Fans et al.) anyway year after year
and whatever the weather of course
so if you're around, please call around and help make this year's a day to remember even if you're not usually to keen on that sort of celebration like meself. (cick off in front of city hall circa 1245)
All welcome incl. snakes and orange rogues!
(isn't that the name of a reel by the way?
correction:
kick off in front of CityHall at around ; 12h45
(not in the year of our lord 1245 (for those with time-travel machines!))
But then god knows what can happen in this time-warped part of the world !
Seamrog'n'rolls round the clock everyone!
(clock 's one of those rare gaelic words that made it to english: it still means bell in Irish and French (cloche) which brings us back to early evangelisation and st pat himself)
Afternoon, playing solo fiddle very quietly in the children's section of a small-town library (unpaid).
Early evening, playing fiddle with a guitarist at a small-town pub (money? they'll pass the hat for us). At least there's no danger of requests for the Unicorn Song or Fields of Athenry--they've never heard of them. Danny Boy, maybe. I'll just tell them I don't sing (near enough to truth, according to some).
Tomorrow is my first paying gig for Irish music. I'll be joining some friends to play a contradance in Chapel Hill, NC (Well, actually Carrboro NC). Fortunately the rest of the band has a lot of experience and talent to make up for my particular performance deficits. It's fitting 'cause I was introduced to contra at the same event last year.
I'm so lucky!!!-- I'm playing locally with a legend---Felix Dolan--should be fun--we played together recently and had a lot of laughts--he's got a great sense of humor on top of his fabulous playing
Well, I’ll be testing and debugging this #%@$%#$ software, in hopes of meeting a project deadline. I’ll probably take a break and go out to my car and play some tunes on a whistle I keep stashed in the dash.
"Tomorrow is my first paying gig for Irish music. I'll be joining some friends to play a contradance in Chapel Hill, NC (Well, actually Carrboro NC). Fortunately the rest of the band has a lot of experience and talent to make up for my particular performance deficits. It's fitting 'cause I was introduced to contra at the same event last year."
Hey, I'm probably going to that dance. I was there last year, too. Well, heck fire, I'm usually there two Fridays and a Saturday a month. Will you be playing the flute?
Ain't contra grand? Wish we could get some ceili dancing in, too.
I'm going to a wine tasting at the Mexican Embassy here in Wahstington, D.C., my new home. Vino from the baja penninsula of mexico is being featured. However, i am going to discretely ask if they'll serve me a shot of green tequila.
I'm trying to stay up late enough to catch the Pogues on Conan O'Brian. Other that that, I'm working, and hoping to catch some music later.
I hope that you all have a happy and safe St. Pat's. Thanks, everyone, for all of the the information, advice, and humor.
Logging off, going home by train (listening to Enda Scahill, Danu, Tunes etc on my antiquated walkman for forty minutes) wash the cat, feed the dishes, put the computer to bed, play babies with my son...sorry this is the first time in 4 years I haven't taken the day off work to play gigs I'm a messed up bit.
Happy Daze all.
Behave yourself DOW - Hope to C U in the parade on Sundey!
I had to work late today because there was a pile-up on the motorway so I ended up an hour late, and now there's not much of the day left. Have to work all weekend and also I put my concertina in for repair today so no session fun for me
I'm playing at Ryans pub in Porto, if anyone's interested in dropping in. It would have been just me and a guitarist, but we invited somebody from the Portuguese tradtional band I've been noodling with. He plays button accordion (called 'concertina' in Portugal), guitar, viola braguesa, cavaquinho, mandolin, fiddle, harmonica, percussion and every instrument known in Portuguese folk music, and although he doesn't play Irish music as such, he is very quick at adapting to unfamilar styles of music. We'll try and sneak in a few Portuguese numbers as well. It should make for an insteresting night. We haven't officially got a name for ourselves, but tonight, if anyone asks, we're called 'The Thieftains'.
Did a shopping center gig (!) during the day Friday, and after decorating our new home for a few hours, I think I'll drift down to the local for a few tunes. Quiet weekend, really.
Played after a local parade for kids. Not bad. Then a miked up gig in a local pub. Went very well. Then a sit down in a not so local pub. Drink took control and it ended up sh*t
Hey, looking back now, I had a memorable start to Paddy's Day in our regular Portrush Session:
Down side - me & my wickle fiddwel - sandwiched between 4 slabbery old Flutes!
Up side - one of the Fluters was none other than Slainte! {Fine bloke, Fine musician} plus the great playing of John Hughes & the deadly Dee Havlin
Watch out, Slainte's over here for two weeks & he's heading to a session near YOU!
Lunch time saw Slainte & meself catch an Open Air gig from The London Lasses, with Dee Havlin & the lassies belting it out, good style. Bumped into Kathleen Smyth (the one & only - Antrim Rose) at the gig too.
Slainte then caught the Bus for Fermanagh!
Hope you caught up with Jim McGrath & the team that night Kieran?
Early evenin' gig saw 3 of us do a spot at a crazy charity St P. concert where about 200 kids were taking it in turns to play, sing & danc in front of their families & friends.
Must be the loudest audience I've ever gigged before, but they were all having a whale of a time.
Mind you we did shut them up for a few minutes at least with some secret weapons:
The Hammered Dulcimer - stunned them cause, despite being a Co. Antrim instrument, nobody knows it here.
The Jews Harp - a reel with a real Harp & Bodhran accompanyment!
The Fife - couple of old Fife Marches at a Paddy's Day gig! - ah well, you can't start practicing too soon, cause that old Marching season soon comes around again, don't it! (Forgot my Lambeg though )
Lovely 4 hour session at night with Kathleen Smyth - two fiddles plus Guitar & Bodhran - just what the Doctor ordered!
Our gigs went great, both were repeats from last year, and we have already been asked to keep the dates opened for them next year. Lots of fun. We did a couple of new things that went over well. My wife and I did a singing duet on the song "Briar and the Rose" that Niamh Parsons did (I think with Phil Callery) on one of the Loose Connections albums, which went over like gangbusters, we will have to do more of that in the future. And we did all the old Irish-American favorites, so beloved over here, but not always universally respected.
Only problem is that I am recovering from the flu, so to keep my playing skills intact, I did not dare to imbibe. So I will have to make up for lost time at the regular session on Sunday.
I checked it out &:
From - Middle English embiben, to soak up, saturate
From Latin imbibere, to drink in
1 - To drink.
2 - To absorb or take in as if by drinking: “The whole body . . . imbibes delight through every pore” (Henry David Thoreau)
3 - To receive and absorb into the mind: “Gladstone had . . . imbibed a strong prejudice against Americans” (Philip Magnus)
4 - Obsolete To permeate; saturate.
intransitive verb
5 - To drink alcoholic beverages.
I'm sure your meaning had nothing to do with No 3
& I doubt if you are merely thinking of No 1?
Yup, I guess you are more likely to be thinking of absorbing, soaking up & saturating yourself in alcoholic beverages, imbibing through every pore, with delight!
Am I close, or are you in fact talking about Tea?
St Patrick's Day plans.
St Patrick's Day plans.
Well, has anyone got anything lined up? Gigs/sessions/nothing at all?
When I lived in Belfast I used to play with the McPeake school of music for the St Patrick's Day mass - something they've been doing for years. The music sounded wonderful in Clonard monastery, especially when Francie Snr and Francie jnr played a slow air with harmonies. I also loved when we played St Patrick's Day and two Irish dancers would dance up the central aisle and lay the altar. The choir sang hymns in Irish - beautiful. No matter what your religious persuasion I couldn't imagine anyone not being touched by the ceremony.
Then we would retire to The Cabin pub around the corner. There was seating for about 5 people but they seemed to cram 50 or so in. All this followed by a day and evening of sessions around town or "abroad".
This year I'm playing in Tommy Flynn's - Camden in the afternoon (musos and supporters welcome) and then off to Limerick for the weekend on the evening flight to Shannon. Although I miss the "good old days" in Belfast I'm still looking forward to this weekend.
So what are ye all up to?
Conán
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Conán McDonnell
Re: St Patrick's Day plans.
"nothing at all"
I like the sound of that one.
I'll do that.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by showaddydadito
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No Dave! Come to London!! I'll keep you a seat.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Conán McDonnell
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London?
Are the streets paved with gold?
Last time I was in London was about January 79. It was all snow and ice, so it was hard to tell what the road surface was.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by showaddydadito
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The streets are paved with Shamrocks and Leprachán gold. Honestly. Would I lie to you?
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Conán McDonnell
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Oh Mary this London’s a wonderful sight
Where the people are working by day and by night.
They don’t sow potatoes nor barley nor wheat
But there’s gangs of them digging for gold in the street.
(we might be doing that one down at the Beaconsfield in Cambridge)
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by RichardB
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I'm leading an assembly for the 450 or so students at the elementary (is this primary school for the rest of the world?)school I teach at. Obviously not a paid gig or anything, but should be interesting. Will have tunes, songs, dances, etc. Might drop in and play somewhere later at night, but the main thing is the assembly.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Jason G
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Nice one Jase! The kids will love that.
I played a few tunes for a middle school class when I was in NY in December. They lapped it up. I think it's the novelty more than anything else.
Booked my holidays for July already, by the way.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Conán McDonnell
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I'm gonny be playing a few tunes at my wee boy's nursery school in the morning, then after setting up some fly experiments (unrelated), off to Shillelagh's for tunes.
Still don't have anyone else for the Saturday thing at Twickers though, any takers? Rugby club, so it's a possible "bank job"....if you know what I mean....
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Key Maniac Lad
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Probably take a saunter up to Flanagan's Bar, Dunedin and see what's happening. I don't hold out too much hope for tunes though as most other musos will probably be working. But who knows, if you're not in you canny win ! eh ? They've a decent pinta black stuff there anyhows
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Strathfoyle
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We’re performing at a senior day care center in the morning, in the theater at a local museum along with a story teller in the afternoon, and then an eighteenth century tavern at night. And the beat goes on all weekend as the St. Patrick’s Day parade is on for Sunday in Pearl River, NY. It’s a big one. They close nearly all the streets in town by 11 AM. We’re playing at a private parade party in the afternoon and then the pub at the parade finish line at night. Saturday was to be off but I awoke to an email today about a gig in the evening. Looks like a two plus bottle weekend to me!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day best wishes to all!
Peace,
Ed
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by ejsant
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Nothing, yeha, my day is my own.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by blas
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Paid gig at a nursing home in the afternoon, and another in the evening at a Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick dinner (their 106th annual event) in Providence RI.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by AlBrown
Re: St Patrick's Day plans.
An afternoon session in one place, and an evening one in another, personnel varying because certain legal-minded individual had an arguement with evening venue's publican and won't cross threshhold, nor let young son rising fiddler do so either, and SO comes home from proper job to play evening session.
Doesn't life get complicated ?
Jason, that is a paid gig you're doing. it's just not specially paid.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Guernsey Pete
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We had a very nice St. Pat's plan, but it all went down the drain. Sigh.
Actually, I'm being hired by my friends from a certain band, whose backer could not participate in the gig. I still have yet to get acquainted with the repertoire.
Anyway, I've already had my St. Pat's night - two days ago Emer Mayock and Donal Siggins were playing in a pub in Poznan. Truly unforgettable.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by EastPole
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We'll have a paid gig in the afternoon and another big special one in the evening. You cannot find many ITM lovers in Valencia (Spain) very often, but that special night they all seem toi get together in this pub where we're playing, so it is really remarkable and I hope I'll enjoy it as much as these last years.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by jorge o'lochlainn
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Making snowmen in the morning
Gig in the pier house howth in the evening.
But we'll get things of to a flyer tonight with our regular thursday night gig
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by newdeafman
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Pub gig in the evening - money, drink and food. Hope to have a lot of fun
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Tarrantella
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Happy St Paddy's Day, everyone! It's already arrived, but there isn't any action yet, seeing as its 12.50 am. Staff club this afternoon.
I was in London in 79 showaddydidato. I think 77 was worse though, black ice on the streets, dirty mushy snow, temps that stayed below 0 degrees all day.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Clear Drops
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Hi Conan et al
We've got a gig in the Anglesey Arms in Hammersmith (or is it Shepher's Bush) if anyone fancies it....
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Geoff Pollitt
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Oops!
It was the Anglesea Arms
http://www.fancyapint.com/main_site/thepubs/pub1239.html
Hic!
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Geoff Pollitt
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Good luck to those with plans; you know that something will likely go amiss tomorrow so I'm expecting the worst. At any rate, hope everyone has a great day!!
Lá Fheile Phádraig Shona daoibh!
C
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Conán McDonnell
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Technically, my St. Patrick's celebration started Tuesday night, at this quite unique party I go to most every year (held in a loading dock/storage area for a Zamboni machine at a college athletic center).
It continues tonight with a CD release concert by Matt and Shannon Heaton I've been looking forward to for months.
And all comes to a head tomorrow when a friend of mine and I play at a stoss dinner club in downtown Boston. Although we've played at some sessions, and performed a few times as part of a larger ensemble, we've never actually worked together as a duo. So since we landed this gig a couple of weeks ago, we've been passing along recordings and notes about our repertoires, preferences, quirks and so forth; we're both pretty busy so we just didn't have the opportunity to rehearse!
Still, I'm quite looking forward to it. I'm sure I'll definitely earn my Harp/Guinness imbibement this year.
Oh, and as an epilogue, if you will, March 18th is my lovely wife's birthday.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by sts
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>I play at a stoss dinner club
Not sure what went wrong there, but for "stoss" substitute "stoss."
I didn't even think "stoss" was a real word, but apparently it means "Facing the direction from which a glacier moves. Used of a rock or slope in its path."
I'm not sure what exactly I will encounter at the aforementioned dinner club, but probably not a glacier.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by sts
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How's this for irony ... I'll be in the field hunting rattlenakes ... for a conservation project. Ah, if only St. Pat himself could join me!
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by stevebenn
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Arghh! I realize now that there's an anti-cussword protective screen built in here, so when I type in "sw*nk" (subsitute "a" for the "*"), it sounds the alarm bell.
OK, how 'bout I just say "ritzy"?
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by sts
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Two easy gigs in a non-pub environment, away from drinkers, shouters, and requests for "The Fields of Athenry", "The Black Velvet Band", "The Wild Rover" or "the Unicorn Song", hopefully. Just a mix of Chicago irish session tunes, west Clare, and piping standards on flat pipes and fiddle. Should be fun and reasonably lucrative.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Hanley
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Pop over to my dad's in the afternoon to watch the hurling on t.v. then go home and save my fire for Saturday; a trip to Dublin to see Brian Friel's Faith Healer then up to Louth to get utterly trashed.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by sergeant fox
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It's a good'n'busy time for us, and great springlike wather for it too, here in the midst of the US.
We're in a different line-up from the std Culchies trio, with Matt Williamson on concertina and fiddle and Erik Peterson (late of Minneapolis) on mandolin, tenor banjo and zouk. We had Jamie Gans lined up to play fiddle, but I think that he won't be able to make it.
Tonight we have a private gig, a combination St. Pat's and grand opening for a small professional office, good $, and probably nice and quiet, but not wild fun other than the good time of playing together.
For the Saint's Friday, we have a fun/funny setup with an R&B band, to split the night in a nice local joint, the Players Pub.
This band has a regular monthly Friday night in which they invite another band to trade sets and then join in a jam (!!), and since their night is this Friday, they invited us! We'll start the night and we've worked up some sets with them. I'm -no- fan whatsoever of "Celtic Rock," but what do you do when the neighbors not only share the $$, but want to play along?!? <GGG> We've taught them some sets from the CD, and they want us to join in some R&B 'classics', too. Matt & Erik sound great with them, and Min can do some Bo Diddley (Burundi) beats on the bodhrán... Wotta hoot!
Saturday we same four are off to an art gallery/coffeehouse for an afternoon gig, and then across the state to the southwest for another private party where we'll join some good friends and other great players from that area.
Sunday to Louisville for a session with our pals there in Molly Malone's Pub. That's always a great time, and if the crowds aren't too mad (or too mad for the basketball games on tv) it will be another grand one.
Woohooo!
stv
the Culchies CD, "Bruscar Bán"
is available at
http://www.OssianUSA.com
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by stv culchie
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One upon a time there was a Irish City Council that was so mean that they would not allow their administerees to have sponsored fun on St Pat's day.
Sounds like a fairy tale?
This is a true story now and you've guessed right if you guessed: 'North' and 'Belfast'.
But the story is turning into a historical moment for the BCC has agreed for the first time this year (in years /at all??) to finance some of the fun at long last (after many a letter, petitions, outraged stances and the organising -anyoldhow- of parades gigs and craic on the said date by the faithful (StPat's Fans et al.) anyway year after year
and whatever the weather of course
so if you're around, please call around and help make this year's a day to remember even if you're not usually to keen on that sort of celebration like meself. (cick off in front of city hall circa 1245)
All welcome incl. snakes and orange rogues!
(isn't that the name of a reel by the way?
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by birlibirdie
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correction:
kick off in front of CityHall at around ; 12h45
(not in the year of our lord 1245 (for those with time-travel machines!))
But then god knows what can happen in this time-warped part of the world !
Seamrog'n'rolls round the clock everyone!
(clock 's one of those rare gaelic words that made it to english: it still means bell in Irish and French (cloche) which brings us back to early evangelisation and st pat himself)
Lá le Phádraig shona daoibh!
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by birlibirdie
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Afternoon, playing solo fiddle very quietly in the children's section of a small-town library (unpaid).
Early evening, playing fiddle with a guitarist at a small-town pub (money? they'll pass the hat for us). At least there's no danger of requests for the Unicorn Song or Fields of Athenry--they've never heard of them. Danny Boy, maybe. I'll just tell them I don't sing (near enough to truth, according to some).
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by mickray
Re: St Patrick's Day plans.
Tomorrow is my first paying gig for Irish music. I'll be joining some friends to play a contradance in Chapel Hill, NC (Well, actually Carrboro NC). Fortunately the rest of the band has a lot of experience and talent to make up for my particular performance deficits. It's fitting 'cause I was introduced to contra at the same event last year.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by wormdiet
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I'm so lucky!!!-- I'm playing locally with a legend---Felix Dolan--should be fun--we played together recently and had a lot of laughts--he's got a great sense of humor on top of his fabulous playing
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by fiddlefamily
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Is there a rude word filter on the session then?
Good job I'm not likely to be looking for sessions in Sc-nthorpe then!
As for St Pat's night, I'll be getting jolly merry at a session in a Bristol Bikers' pub.
Rock on!
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Wurzel
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We have a town out here named Toppenish that sometimes gets caught by porn filters. It's a funny cyber-world.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by mickray
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Well, I’ll be testing and debugging this #%@$%#$ software, in hopes of meeting a project deadline. I’ll probably take a break and go out to my car and play some tunes on a whistle I keep stashed in the dash.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Bob himself
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I got a gig.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Unseen122
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"Tomorrow is my first paying gig for Irish music. I'll be joining some friends to play a contradance in Chapel Hill, NC (Well, actually Carrboro NC). Fortunately the rest of the band has a lot of experience and talent to make up for my particular performance deficits. It's fitting 'cause I was introduced to contra at the same event last year."
Hey, I'm probably going to that dance. I was there last year, too. Well, heck fire, I'm usually there two Fridays and a Saturday a month. Will you be playing the flute?
Ain't contra grand? Wish we could get some ceili dancing in, too.
# Posted on March 17th 2006 by Gaelic writer
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I'm going to a wine tasting at the Mexican Embassy here in Wahstington, D.C., my new home. Vino from the baja penninsula of mexico is being featured. However, i am going to discretely ask if they'll serve me a shot of green tequila.
# Posted on March 17th 2006 by Brendan
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drink, drink, drink....feck
# Posted on March 17th 2006 by bosco
The Hurlin' O' the Green
I'm trying to stay up late enough to catch the Pogues on Conan O'Brian. Other that that, I'm working, and hoping to catch some music later.
I hope that you all have a happy and safe St. Pat's. Thanks, everyone, for all of the the information, advice, and humor.
# Posted on March 17th 2006 by tomw
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Logging off, going home by train (listening to Enda Scahill, Danu, Tunes etc on my antiquated walkman for forty minutes) wash the cat, feed the dishes, put the computer to bed, play babies with my son...sorry this is the first time in 4 years I haven't taken the day off work to play gigs I'm a messed up bit.
Happy Daze all.
Behave yourself DOW - Hope to C U in the parade on Sundey!
# Posted on March 17th 2006 by Greenwiggle
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I had to work late today because there was a pile-up on the motorway so I ended up an hour late, and now there's not much of the day left. Have to work all weekend and also I put my concertina in for repair today so no session fun for me
# Posted on March 17th 2006 by Dow
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Ah, Dow & Greenwiggle,
Sounds like the 'humours of Sydney' you're talking about there.
And y'll be meltin' likely on a 40 degree Paddy's Day there, yeah?
Happy Paddy's.
Cheers
Duijera
# Posted on March 17th 2006 by Duijera Dubh
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I'm playing at Ryans pub in Porto, if anyone's interested in dropping in. It would have been just me and a guitarist, but we invited somebody from the Portuguese tradtional band I've been noodling with. He plays button accordion (called 'concertina' in Portugal), guitar, viola braguesa, cavaquinho, mandolin, fiddle, harmonica, percussion and every instrument known in Portuguese folk music, and although he doesn't play Irish music as such, he is very quick at adapting to unfamilar styles of music. We'll try and sneak in a few Portuguese numbers as well. It should make for an insteresting night. We haven't officially got a name for ourselves, but tonight, if anyone asks, we're called 'The Thieftains'.
# Posted on March 17th 2006 by granama
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Yes, I'll be attempting to play flute. I'm looking forward to it.
# Posted on March 17th 2006 by wormdiet
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Did a shopping center gig (!) during the day Friday, and after decorating our new home for a few hours, I think I'll drift down to the local for a few tunes. Quiet weekend, really.
# Posted on March 18th 2006 by snorre
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Played after a local parade for kids. Not bad. Then a miked up gig in a local pub. Went very well. Then a sit down in a not so local pub. Drink took control and it ended up sh*t
# Posted on March 18th 2006 by copo24
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Hey, looking back now, I had a memorable start to Paddy's Day in our regular Portrush Session:
Down side - me & my wickle fiddwel - sandwiched between 4 slabbery old Flutes!
Up side - one of the Fluters was none other than Slainte! {Fine bloke, Fine musician} plus the great playing of John Hughes & the deadly Dee Havlin
Watch out, Slainte's over here for two weeks & he's heading to a session near YOU!
Lunch time saw Slainte & meself catch an Open Air gig from The London Lasses, with Dee Havlin & the lassies belting it out, good style. Bumped into Kathleen Smyth (the one & only - Antrim Rose) at the gig too.
Slainte then caught the Bus for Fermanagh!
Hope you caught up with Jim McGrath & the team that night Kieran?
Early evenin' gig saw 3 of us do a spot at a crazy charity St P. concert where about 200 kids were taking it in turns to play, sing & danc in front of their families & friends.
)
Must be the loudest audience I've ever gigged before, but they were all having a whale of a time.
Mind you we did shut them up for a few minutes at least with some secret weapons:
The Hammered Dulcimer - stunned them cause, despite being a Co. Antrim instrument, nobody knows it here.
The Jews Harp - a reel with a real Harp & Bodhran accompanyment!
The Fife - couple of old Fife Marches at a Paddy's Day gig! - ah well, you can't start practicing too soon, cause that old Marching season soon comes around again, don't it! (Forgot my Lambeg though
Lovely 4 hour session at night with Kathleen Smyth - two fiddles plus Guitar & Bodhran - just what the Doctor ordered!
Paddy's Day? - yip, I had a great time thanks!
# Posted on March 18th 2006 by Ptarmigan
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Our gigs went great, both were repeats from last year, and we have already been asked to keep the dates opened for them next year. Lots of fun. We did a couple of new things that went over well. My wife and I did a singing duet on the song "Briar and the Rose" that Niamh Parsons did (I think with Phil Callery) on one of the Loose Connections albums, which went over like gangbusters, we will have to do more of that in the future. And we did all the old Irish-American favorites, so beloved over here, but not always universally respected.
Only problem is that I am recovering from the flu, so to keep my playing skills intact, I did not dare to imbibe. So I will have to make up for lost time at the regular session on Sunday.
# Posted on March 18th 2006 by AlBrown
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An interesting word that - imbibe Al!
I checked it out &:
From - Middle English embiben, to soak up, saturate
From Latin imbibere, to drink in
1 - To drink.
2 - To absorb or take in as if by drinking: “The whole body . . . imbibes delight through every pore” (Henry David Thoreau)
3 - To receive and absorb into the mind: “Gladstone had . . . imbibed a strong prejudice against Americans” (Philip Magnus)
4 - Obsolete To permeate; saturate.
intransitive verb
5 - To drink alcoholic beverages.
I'm sure your meaning had nothing to do with No 3
& I doubt if you are merely thinking of No 1?
Yup, I guess you are more likely to be thinking of absorbing, soaking up & saturating yourself in alcoholic beverages, imbibing through every pore, with delight!
Am I close, or are you in fact talking about Tea?
# Posted on March 18th 2006 by Ptarmigan
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Ptarmy,
I was indeed thinking of alcohol, and absorbing, soaking up, and saturating myself, with delight!
# Posted on March 20th 2006 by AlBrown