Well, I am excited. I was going to write about this earlier, since it happened a week ago today, but this is the first I’ve had time. So, anyways, i just want to share my excitement with you guys. Last Wednesday I did my junior recital for college. It was a full recital of piano repertoire which was a blast to do becuase I love studying and performing on the piano. BUT the really fun part was the little 15-min folk music segment my teacher let me add at the end! I walked out on stage with my Susato Low D playing “Lovely Sweet Banks of the Moy” and then “Toss the Feathers”. THen I had a bunch of other folk instruments set up around me, and I just went down the table playing them all. I played a Greek tune on the mountain dulcimer, a Breton hanter-dro on the Nepali flute with shruti box, a couple tunes on the hammered dulcimer, “Nonesuch” on the concertina, and then ended with the high D whistle (my Dixon) and shruti box, playing “Princess Royal” and “Dusty Windowsills”. It was a HUGE success… I LOVED playing and the audience loved the instruments. Everyone has been talking about all the instruments and this beautiful celtic music! It was quite a breakthrough because this is a very traditional music school, and they are typically not open to much else other than classical. So it was REALLY cool to see these classical professors who were absolutely enthralled with the folk music and instruments. I’m hoping to do more on my senior recital! =) I think it is important to show that quality classical music and quality folk/Celtic music can coexist!
You have every right to be excited. Congratulations. That’s great. Maybe now you’ll get the understanding that you were feeling was absent a couple of weeks ago. I think prejudice is very often just a matter of never having been exposed to something under the right circumstances.
That really sounds like some performance you gave. Talent and chutzpah—I love it!
Wow! That’s wonderful!
Us Celtic/Irish musician’s will show them what real music is! lol 
That’s wonderful that they all loved the music. And it’s even more cool that a Traditional music school let you do a Folk music segment. Neat!