In the meantime, I’m finding the web site frustrating.
The only email listed, contact at irishartsweek.com, isn’t working (bouncing messages back). Guess I could just phone them, after the holiday.
For those of you who are registered for CIAW, have you received any detailed info on the session schedule or evening concerts yet?
Typically CIAW does not mail out the session/concert schedule in advance. It will be in your registration packet when you check in. Based on past experience, they may put it up on the website beforehand. Check there later in the week.
If you haven’t received a mailed confirmation of your registration, however, that would be worth a call to sort it out.
I’ll be there. I might have a private concertina lesson with a guest from County Clare but beside that, it will be playing tunes, listening to tunes, drinking and sleeping. I’ll be sharing a cottage with a few friends, should be hella fun.
I only made it down to East Durham for a couple of days, but it was nice…
Man, that Jimmy Keane sure can play the piano accordion! And I say that as someone who previously had no interest in hearing one. (Coincidentally, last year I said the same thing about James Keane and the button accordion.)
Did anyone happen to attend the Kane sisters’ fiddle class?
I’m looking for names of a couple of hornpipes they played at a session – I know that they (or at least one of them) also taught the hornpipes in their fiddle class (since I overheard a little when I went to Oak Hill Kitchen for a late lunch).
The first hornpipe, in Gmaj, starts with a long ascending, uh, arpeggio I guess:
G A B C d e f# a
(I’m weak in ABC, that syntax might not be right)
and the 2nd hornpipe, in Dmaj, starts with
A F# A d B3
(both of the above shown without any pickup notes).
Hmm… the Buck From the Mountain posted on TheSession has an A part just like the Kanes were playing it, but it has a B part that’s very different. It’s always something, isn’t it?
