Well, nothing special to tell about me:) I'm past cellist, present whistler and a beginner fiddler:) Irish fiddle is in my heart and though I haven't been listening to the Music for too long it became the vital part of my life. Apart from playing, listening and trying to understand different Irish fiddle styles (Sliabh Luachra being on top of all!) my musical life involves taking part in organizing local sessions of Irish Traditional Music in Moscow. So whenever you happen to be in Moscow, contact me and drop in:) For everything else let the quotes speak for myself. These're the quotes of and about the people I admire - some of them just for fun, some more are the essence of my own views, including something important about perception of the Music.
"I probably consciously worked on my triplets in the sense that they never seemed to work properly. So they developed from trying to bow them properly but not succeeding."
(c) Tommy Peoples
"Kevin Burke's rolls are so crisp, that even the ones made of bread never need toasting."
(c) TSO
"It's one of these tunes that were so popular that nobody played them for years."
(c) Kevin Burke
"...And he said that he would come back and he'd marry her and take great care of her and everything. You'll find that in a lot of songs too. It's called.. The Great Celtic Lie."
(c) Andy M. Stewart
"We did a set once together. And they gave us ten minutes to play. And we did it in four and a half! I remember playing a set of tunes once with Duncan. And we played it so fast that only dogs could hear it..."
(c) Phil Cunningham
"I would consciously pinpoint that as something that I’d love to do, which is play very slowly but with lovely lift."
(c) Caoimhin O Raghallaigh
"Sometimes you get this special reaction, relationship amongst musicians. A good session is where musicians listen to one another and it becomes an entity in itself and it has its own life... That's a nice pose, a great pose."
(c) Matt Molloy
"I like to sit down in a chair and play some music. I suspect the rest of the band likes that too. I can tell by the look of their faces they like it, when they're just sitting there with no obstruction just playing something."
(c) Derek Bell
"It's just amazing to hear that music is in the trees, it's in the houses, in the people... The music belongs in the various districts... You can smell it, it's where, you know!"
(c) Paddy Moloney
"It’s pretty much a lifetime study; you listen to it and you get a certain level of appreciation for it, you come back a month later and you hear a whole new side of things, and you come back a year later and you realize you haven’t heard it at all. It’s music of infinite depth."
(c) Caoimhin O Raghallaigh
"I’d say for me music has been… Well, firstly, I’ve neglected everything else, like studying and stuff like that, but I wouldn’t change it either... It’s been like a raft, or a lifebuoy, in good times and bad, particularly in bad. It’s more often been a friend than a foe to me. It can be nonsensical at times, but it’s deep in my heart anyhow. I’ve loved it more than I’ve struggled with it."
(c) Tommy Peoples
Happy to meet, play and chat with practically any traditional musician who appears around here:) It's a great pleasure to have guests from Ireland and America at our sessions and it's always interesting to share the experience:) Hope it's not far off when I visit Éire myself.
Tunes in Bregolas's tunebook: 402
| A Glint Of Silver | reel | November 12th 2006 |
| The Man Who Shot The Windmill | reel | November 11th 2006 |
| Roarin' Donald | reel | November 10th 2006 |
| The Raven's Wing | reel | November 5th 2006 |
| The Sweeper's Tune | waltz | July 6th 2006 |
| Kiss The Tears Away | Silly Wizard | November 11th 2006 |
| Wild And Beautiful | Silly Wizard | November 10th 2006 |
| So Many Partings | Silly Wizard | November 10th 2006 |
| Rip The Calico | Paul Dooley | July 6th 2006 |
| How much are lowered bridges popular? | April 9th 2007 |
| Tunes | January 2nd 2009 | |
| Tunes | January 2nd 2009 | |
| Tunes | November 6th 2008 | |
| Discussions | Re: On the road again... Moscow in Sept. | October 17th 2007 |
| Sessions | October 17th 2007 |