I have listed this session as being in Boston to ease the searching for it for people from outside the area. It is in fact in Cambridge, just north of Boston, but is still reachable with the various Boston public transport systems. This means that the map on the session page will be wrong!!
This seems to be one of the best Irish sessions in Boston as far as I can establish. It starts at 9-9.30 pm on Tuesdays.
The pub itself is a great bar, and seems to be a genuine Irish bar, unlike the hundreds of fake Irish bars to be found all over Boston
This is my personal favorite session bar in town; where I go when I want to play with people I consider good musicians first, and socialize second.
As with most good music sessions, the openness of the session varies with the quality of the wanderer. ;) While it's very rare, I *have* actually seen people be asked to stop playing when they demonstrated neither clue nor care regarding Irish music (in both cases, it needed to happen).
The nook for musicians is small (fits only about 8-10 max) and even the regular musicians sometimes can't find a seat until the crowd thins. Tuesday nights are typically more crowded than Saturday afternoons. On the flip side, it's often nearly as fun to listen to the session as it is to play in it.
I have listed this session as being in Boston to ease the searching for it for people from outside the area. It is in fact in Cambridge, just north of Boston, but is still reachable with the various Boston public transport systems. This means that the map on the session page will be wrong!!
This seems to be one of the best Irish sessions in Boston as far as I can establish. It starts at 9-9.30 pm on Tuesdays.
The pub itself is a great bar, and seems to be a genuine Irish bar, unlike the hundreds of fake Irish bars to be found all over Boston
# Posted on July 12th 2011 by niall_kenny
The session is also on Saturdays at 4-7 pm
# Posted on July 12th 2011 by niall_kenny
It's a pretty high level session
-- how open is it to wanderers?
# Posted on July 19th 2011 by Mina
This is my personal favorite session bar in town; where I go when I want to play with people I consider good musicians first, and socialize second.
As with most good music sessions, the openness of the session varies with the quality of the wanderer. ;) While it's very rare, I *have* actually seen people be asked to stop playing when they demonstrated neither clue nor care regarding Irish music (in both cases, it needed to happen).
The nook for musicians is small (fits only about 8-10 max) and even the regular musicians sometimes can't find a seat until the crowd thins. Tuesday nights are typically more crowded than Saturday afternoons. On the flip side, it's often nearly as fun to listen to the session as it is to play in it.
# Posted on August 9th 2011 by Georgi
Can't say enough good things about this session
Entirely outstanding. Tip-top notch musicians. I could certainly go on, but you get the idea.
# Posted on December 19th 2011 by iamchris