Hi Joannie,
I was pleased to see that Roisin Dillon is now a part of CTL! I spent some time with she and her brother, Eammon, when their group was playing at an Irish Pub on Andrews Ave in Ft. Lauderdale a couple years back (can’t remember the name). Love her fiddle playing and I’m sure she’ll be a great adition to CTL. Eammon’s quite an incredible musician himself. Both wonderful people.
Denny Cannon
SlipJig Celtic Band
Huntsville, AL
Does someone know if Mary will be back in Catskills next july?
http://www.east-durham.org/irishartsweek/
I looked into this last summer. Maybe this is the impetus to try to make it this summer. Who wouldn’t be interested?!
Az, didn’t you have a cabin/house rented to attend this thing last summer?
Impromptu jams between excellent musicians are always the best - unexpected so you always are saying, “I can’t believe I was able to see that”.
Too bad you can’t include a sound clip with this photo, Dale.
Mary, I also heard the CTL Christmas concert on NPR. It was a great way to spend an hour during the season. Of course, this was after reading the notification put out by Dale of the Christmas CD which I promptly went out and found.
Believe me, she is! 
(Edityd bcaus I cant tipe.)
We have who is recognized as a very good whistle player performing with what looks to be a $(USD)4.95 Gen D and breaking all of the rules on whistle decorum. So much for style over substance, eh?
Cant you just smell the irony?
Edited to remove stiffness and formality
Just for fun …
What’s your definition of penultimate? (No looking allowed.)
Best wishes,
Jerry
If there were a contest to find the ultimate something, the penultimate would be the thing that took 2nd place.
Just for fun:
For Latin words >2 syllables, the accent goes on the penultimate (second to last) syllable if that syllable is long. If the penultimate syllable is short, the accent goes on the antepenultimate syllable (third to last).
My husband has a Masters Degree in English Literature, and yet he used the word “penultimate” incorrectly before (and shortly after) we met.
I dont have a degree but I think it means next to perfect?
The use of “penultimate” to mean “the very last” has by now become so frequent that the meaning has become ambiguous. I don’t use the word. Even if the person who hears me knows that it originally meant “second to last” they would be left to wonder whether I am using the world correctly. So the word is more trouble than it’s worth, a distraction, and anyway it’s typically used these days in an effort to sound stiff and formal.
Hey Dude, then that would mean you?
I got a penultimate for Christmas back when I was in high school one time. It would write upside down, underwater, in space, in three colors, and was shockproof. But it fell out of my pocket and I lost it.
I think the same it came from the same people who made Pocket Fisherman.
That Mont Blanc was the very best writing instrument I ever had. It was the penultimate.
Ladies and Gentlemen …
We have a winner!
Best wishes,
Jerry
I confess to missing vomitbunny’s pen post. Mine seems so pathetic now.
I think yours was the penultimate.
I don’t know if this was mentioned here before, but since I was in the audience the night this picture was taken, let me tell you about it.
Joanie and Mary were playing up a storm on the stage of CIAW in East Durham, NY. Between tunes Joanie announced that she had been talking with folks on the Chiff and Fipple board about what she should do for her next recording, and a popular answer had been to do an album with Mary Bergin. Joanie asked Mary about it that very night before going on stage and Mary agreed. Let me tell you, the audience was all for it.
So Joanie, since you put Mary on the spot in front of a couple of hundred witnesses in the Catskills last summer, is this still on track? Is it true that Dale Wisely will be on the cover (I checked this rumor on the Urban Legends website but did not find anything)?
Have fun in Glasgow.
Tom
Is there anyone here that won’t buy that CD?
Ron
As an act of mercy, I will decline to be on the cover. However, I WOULD write the liner notes.