I am an untutored harmonica player who loves Irish traditional music with a touch of Scottish and Northumbrian thrown in. I'm pretty serious about "doing it right" but this music is also my main outlet for having fun. Tell me if you think I've got it wrong, and don't ask me about chromatic harmonicas.
CD sound-clips: http://www.gjk2.com/steveshaw/cd.htm
CD review: http://www.irishmusicreview.com/sshaw.htm
I suppose I should add a bit following Guernsey Pete's stricture. I live in the middle of nowhere about four miles from Bude in Cornwall. I'm English really (hailing from that bit of true Lancashire that is now the Metropolitan-Borough-of-Somewhere-or-Other about eight miles north of Manchester), but all my mum's side are Irish and my great grandfather had a fist-fight once with Count John McCormack's dad over the factory foreman's job. We lost. I'm 58 and overweight and have dodgy knees and drink a lot of red wine and Doom Bar and single malts of the heavier, peaty styles (if I tell you that Talisker and Highland Park are my favourites you'll get the picture). I was a schoolteacher for 25 years, teaching science tinged with biology. I love ITM to bits in all its pure and non-pure manifestations (though I hate flashy young bucks as personified by Lunasa et al.) and only have time for ITM and classical music. If you want to know any more you'll have to wait 'til Kirsty interviews me on Desert Island Discs.
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