So I saw Dervish tonight. It was so awesome. Until coming here they didn’t know that our part of the county is dry (alcohol is illegal), so they joked a lot about that and changed their set list to play a lot of alcohol-related songs. It was so fun. And in the crowd later the singer found me and said “Hey! Give me this!” and she took the program from my hand and signed it.
I had a really good time. 
I have one of their CD’s. It’s a favorite. Sigh. They almost Never come to Wyoming…
T
On their newest CD (which I wanted to buy but didn’t have the money for) they do a folk cover of a Cher song! They performed it tonight. It was awesome.
Cathy Jordan is a force of nature. A distinctive voice and boy does she know how to use it. How did you feel about her singing, Cran?
I really liked it. At first I didn’t understand all her hand movements and gestures as she sang, buy by the end of the show I was convinced.
Speaking of Irish super-groups, I’m going to see Lunasa on Sunday afternoon! I’m driving 3 hours to see a 2 hour show, then 3 hours back home. I can’t see how it won’t be worth it. The venue is an early 20th century theatre (www.thecolonialtheatre.org), and we’ve got second row balcony seats. Late last summer they played a little Irish pub in Falmouth, MA for only $25, and I blew that one off (I actually forgot). Woulda been great, but crowded. I like the theatre venue better, but the drive sucks. I do get some “alone time” with the missus though, which’ll be nice.
What a whirl we live in.
djm
She sang a lot in Irish and explained what the language was and asked us to sing along with her in Irish, which we all tried to do but I think few of us sounded anything near comprehensible.
That’s a shame! They come here every couple years. They were in my town
on Tuesday night, but I was at the Altan concert at the time (P.S. Awesome!)
Cran, what kind of concert space was it? I’ve seen Dervish at a huge outdoor
stage behind our art museum and in a small, intimate space. They’re very
different concerts! Cathy Jordan likes to explain the story behind every song
and that seems more fitting in a small space, I guess…
We were in a building on my campus used for concerts, but it’s an old building with limited seating so there were probably a few hundred people in there. A thousand at most. Afterwards we all had cake and punch together. That’s when she came up to me and took my program from my hand and signed it.
Cool! Best way to see 'em.
That’s ooosssooomme Cran!
Definately one of those things that one simply MUST do in one’s lifetime.
Does anybody want the signed program? I’ll give it to you if you do, because I know I won’t keep up with it.
I’d like one of their CDs, too.
Must be one group my local Borders hasn’t carried, as I don’t remember seeing it there.
You might ask Cathy Wilde. She LOVES Dervish. I wasn’t able to make it to the concert, and I am pretty sure she didn’t get to go either.
Makes you wonder how corporations like make their decisions based on demographics, if that’s what they actually do. I would have thought that Dervish would be a “go-to” for any Irish - or “Seltic” - CD section. Sort of like boxed wine. 
Don’t get me wrong. I think Dervish are a pretty phenomenal bunch of artists; speaking as one who knows a little bit about this sort of thing, their arrangements are not only delightful and tight, they’re involved. Those folks have to have elephantine memories to pull off some of the stuff they do.
But drifting back to Borders and what you can/can’t find at a given location: I was checking out what was available for ITM-ish stuff at one local store, and found my own (well, it’s not mine. You know.) band’s CD Broke and Thirsty there. How that happened I don’t know, as to the best of my knowledge A) pretty much only band members are in possession of any unsold copies at this time (and everyone denies having flogged 'em to the Borders CD-mongers), B) we’re really only known among a smallish circle of locals, and C) the CD’s not that good. But that never stopped a corporate monolith from selling stuff.
So, Lamby, why no Dervish for you stands a mystery to me.
It’s a mystery to me, too. Ranks right up there with why the battery on the car only ends up dead when you’re trying to start the engine.
If nobody has an extra they can send me, I’ll wait until I get a 40% off coupon from Borders. It’ll bring the cost down to a week’s worth of lunches, which I can take peanut butter sandwiches for, and then I’ll check again.
Is it cold in Minnesota? Reason I ask is that I was looking at a job there. We could play some tunes, hmm? That would be fun.
It can be. It was, this winter. Anway, I thought so. A lot of other people did, too. Actually, most of us, I think. My Cajun sister-in-law, the dear girl, thinks it’s cold here all the time even when it’s up around the 90s and will wear a sweater when she visits. So, you being a Floridian…I dunno. It’s sink or swim; we like to say the weather keeps the riff-raff out, but hey, I live here, so nuts to that.
Tunes are good. If you play fast you can keep warm that way.