… win ‘Best Group’ award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in London. Also ‘Lifetime Achievment’ award for the Chieftains. Video, audio, photos etc. here</a](http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/folk/">here</a)>
Keith
ALLRIIIIIIIGHT!!! 
I don’t know how many of you have followed the link Keith provided, but if you haven’t, you’re missing quite a feast.
The](http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/realmedia/folk_awards_video9.ram%22%3EThe) Real Audio broadcast of the Chieftains’ performance is a gas. You get to see Paddy M playing a box as well as pipes and a certain brand of red-topped cheap whistle. Nice close-ups of Sean K on fiddle. (Oh and Nathalie McMaster.) And at the end they are joined by Sean Potts and Michael Tubridy, plus about everyone else you can think of. Despite about 35 musicians on stage during Miss McLeod’s, you can hear Sean Potts’ whistle as clear as a bell.
Check it out people!
Well by a stroke of good luck I turned off one of the endless showings of James Bond on TV tonight and caught this posting before it scrolled into oblivion. I got to watch the Chieftains and part of the Lifetime Achievement Awards ceremony. Thanks Keith for the posting and Steve for calling it to our attention. I was pleased to see that the two former Chieftains Sean Potts and Michael Tubridy are alive and well and still performing. I was even tapping along to “Miss McLeod’s Reel” which is a tune I normally dislike. I remember one of your old postings, Steve, when you said that an over performed tune could sometimes be brought back to life by a fresh performance. Quite right! I think the Chieftains, with their exuberant way of playing, brought even this old relic back to life!
I’ll have to go back to this site and check out the Virtual Session again. I had almost forgotten about it. Again, many thanks for the posting!
Best wishes, Tom