OK, she hasn’t exactly asked for our help, but I figure, we could anyway - the nice folks that we are.
I am sure that I am not the only one waiting for the LONG awaited follow up to her Song of the Irish Whistle 1 and 2 and Whistle in the Wind solo project CD’s. Soooo… lets suggest names for Joanie’s next solo project and we can forward them to her after we get some good ones and help her and nudge her along at the same time
Let the board bear witness to the awesome creativity that is the C&F Whistle Board!
pastorkeith
Feadoggie
Oh yea - saw it - but that thread began in the spring of 2004. I figure if we came up with some titles it might move things along - a C&F present if you will.
pastorkeith
Oh dear,
thats almost as bad as “passing wind”
you could always use one of walt disneys tunes and “give a little whistle”
or
maybe
blowing in the wind (thats the answer my friend)
or
perhaps
Just joanie
or we could just leave that to joanie’s judgement
lol
no matter what you do we are behind you joanie, with paypal ready to buy your next musical inspiration
regards
David
So are you going with Paul’s suggestion of a two-CD set - one “arranged” and one purist?
I like it - not because it sounds like my kind of indecision , but because the “gateway” function of the more arranged or more populist material is so important in bringing the real thing to a wider audience.
Even if you don’t go for the double CD approach, it would certainly be good to include some totally straight, solo material.
I was reminded of this just a couple of evenings ago, looking at some of the clips of very early Planxty on You Tube. When the lads would take a break from all the “three drunken maidens” kind of stuff and Liam O’Flynn would play a “pure drop” solo piece, there would be an almost palpable sense of amazed reaction in the audience (call it an epiphany or a Riverdance moment, as you please ) - an intake of breath followed by rapturous applause.
I’m still convinced that by making straight trad music cool and appealing to a whole new young generation, Liam did more than almost anyone else on what economists would call the demand side of the trad music revival. And some of that demand led to a whole lot of new people buying tin whistles and ending up on the supply side.
I can be as excited as anyone else by a groovy Lunasa track, but the fundamental essence of a traditional music is plain people playing the plain article for their own enjoyment, and the whistle has to be the ultimate instrument for bridging the gap between the performer and Everyman.
Joanie - that’s what we are here for. Ideas and laughs. Sometimes we confuse the two, but in the end, it all just seems to work out just fine
Blessings
pastorkeith
