For the few of you who happen to be in West Clare, or who are able to make it:
A concert will be held in the Armada Hotel in Spanish Point Co. Clare 0n saturday 22 january (20.00 h) to celabrate local girl Edel Fox’ award as TG4 Young Musician of the Year.
Billed as an All Star Concert the line up will include: Paddy Canny, Joe Burke & Ann Conroy-Burke, Jackie Daly, John Carty, concertina and pipes duets Tommy Keane & Jaqueline Mccarthy and Kitty Hayes & Peter Laban, Bird O Donoghue, Dympna O Sullivan and scores more.
Admission is 10 Euro (cheese and wine reception included )
Well, I’ve spent the last hour going through my house looking for stuff to pawn/sell to get there. So far, I think I’ve got about $47 worth of goods. Maybe next time. It sounds grand!
I always admired your modesty Peter Have fun over there, I wish I could be there, and Edel would be great to look at even if she werent playing any music.
I just made it back (two in the morning). i suppose the weather recently got everybody down and in need of a night out, there was a big crowd and it turned out as one of the most brilliant concerts I have been to for a good while, no clunky sound system (although you couldn’t really hear yourself play on stage), audience listening quietly, fierce wild dancing young fellows, broomdancers and all.
Paddy Canny didn’t turn up, Dympna Sullivan played lovely with John Weir and Eithne ni Dhoinaille, Conor Keane and his wife played withtheir daughter on the concertina, Eamonn And Geraldine cotter had Geraldine’s daughter Maeve Boyd playing with them. Annie Ruth Benagh played her grandfather Tommy Mccarthy’s version of the Dear irish Boy on the whistle, so beautiful it had people in tears. Tommy Keane played his B pipes. Susie Cox sang with beautiful guitar playing by Paul de Grae. Great stuff alround. Mad wild dancing during the finale.
For those who missed it, Meaiti Jo Sheamuis recorded it all for Radio na Gaeltachta, the concert will be broadcast on next tuesday evening, you can probably catch it through their website or down load the programme from the archive after. Thoroughly recommended.
RnaG had excerpts from the concert on both their Tuesday and Thursday show. Both of these can be downloaded from the RTE website.
Peter and Kitty play on the Thursday show. ( I didn’t hear it myself but the missus said that they were on. She said that my nine-year old grabbed up the whistle and started playing along with them; one of his tunes was being played ).
I listened to some of the Tuesday show and the sound quality seemed very poor though.
Was it just my radio or did anybody else hear that?
I didn’t realise it was on on thursday as well. I was playing tunes with Kitty yesterday and she said we hadn’t made it onto the tuesday programme, she caught some of that.
Maiti Jo had plugged his gear straight into the mixing panel so he should have had decent sound, the sound at the concert itself was pretty decent for a change.
It really wasa brilliant night, just talked to Dympna O Sullivan, she didn’t make it home until five on sudaymorning.
Thanks for the link, Eldarion. I’d listened to the Tuesday program. The sound quality wasn’t the best, but Thursday’s airing is much, much better. Peter and Kitty’s sets are brilliant and Jackie Daly is on fire.
Annie Ruth Benagh’s playin of Dear Irish Boy is not to be missed.
Thank you, Peter, and thank you Eldarion, for the link! I have been thoroughly enjoying this download all afternoon – absolutely brilliant!
And Peter, since you were there (lovely playing if that was you up front, BTW) … would you mind telling me the name of that last tune in the last set of the night? I’ve heard it before, but never known the name and life is too short not to learn it --it’s a great one!
Again, thank you thank you thank you! 'Swonderful stuff!
The night went on a lot longer than the radioshow and I didn’t listen to the radio so I don’t know which tune you mean, maybe if you give the start of it?
Hi, Peter! Thank you so much for your kind offer. Unfortunately I haven’t even had a minute to sit down and sort it out beyond “uh, it’s a reel, and I’m pretty sure it’s in G” (helpful, huh?) but perhaps I can get the first few bars figured out tonight and post the abc here.
Actually, Peter, you’re right. Or maybe you are, now I’m confused. I was looking for the last tune in the last set of the broadcast (it starts around 00:52:07). But Seanie, thank you so much; I was also trying to figure out the middle one in Peter’s set, too, so The Reel of Rio was indeed helpful info (dang, I can’t believe I forgot that tune; I kept going "I know it, I know it, I know it … old-timer’s disease strikes again!)!
Altho’ that’s the same problem I’m having with this other tune in question. I’ve heard it, I sort of know it, I think Lunasa or somebody did it on one of their CDs (altho’ I like yer-all’s better. Especially the (w)hooping and hollering. But given where I live I suppose that’s probably no surprise.), and it’s driving me nuts!
I’ll listen again this aft. and see if I can sound it out; maybe then I can figure out some elemental abc.
But thank you so much, for your help and resolving at least The Reel of Rio mystery!!!
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It sounds grand!
Have fun over there, I wish I could be there, and Edel would be great to look at even if she werent playing any music.
Especially the (w)hooping and hollering. But given where I live I suppose that’s probably no surprise.), and it’s driving me nuts!