Irish Piper/Fidder Wanted

Uilleann Pipes
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I got this email:

Hello There,

Though you clearly champion the pennywhistle, I thought with your
also-love of pipes you might be able to help with a project I am
working on at present.

I’m writing to ask your kind help in directing this request to the
people best suited to consider the request you will see just below.
Thanks very much for taking a moment with this!

Readers Theatre Repertory is a small theatre company in Portland. It
seeks an Irish piper and Irish fiddler for two nights, Friday and
Saturday, March 10 and 11, from 7.45P to 9.30P. Location: Pearl
District. Requirements: play 4 songs, selected in conjunction with
play director. Pay: $25 per musician, plus will provide table for CD
sales, if musicians wish to sell them, along with mention in program
including website and other contact information.

Director and company members are not paid for the production. All
monies from ticket sales are used to pay actors (same rate),
musicians, playwrights, and for space rental.

To learn more about RTR: > www.readerstheatrerep.org> . To learn more
about Mary McDonald-Lewis: > www.marymac.com> .

Please contact Mary McDonald-Lewis if interested.

Thank you!

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I already filled the “Piper” slot. Tough dookies, fellow overblowers!
“Champion[s] the pennywhistle”? We recently lost a fellow in a local band, Poison Idea, who called himself “Pig Champion.”

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Just don’t let all that money go to your head :stuck_out_tongue:

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First David Power, now Kevin… a new dawn breaks

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Rigler is busy filming Titanic - The Return Voyage.

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:laughing:

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Darn.. If I’d have known about these earlier I would have come down to see ya!

Dionys

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It was fun, I provided between-acts schtuff and off-stage music for an actor playing McDonagh the piper, whose wife died while he was at a spree or fair. I even provided a “prop” set of pipes (Angus set #2) which almost fell off a stool…gripping drama, that.
Interesting type of theatre, the actors simply walked around with their scripts in hand. “Staged reading.” Good if your hippocampus isin’t up to snuff. Brogues were pretty good, too, although they kept mispronouncing Ballina.