2 folders worth of music from Galway, Arty McGlynn and Nollaig Casey in
the first, and Joanie’s birthday session in the 2nd, and a folder of mp3’s
from sessions in Dublin. You can hear Jim and Mary Coogan and Joe and
Joanie Madden and lots of others, and also songs, some in Irish.
Great fun to listen to and play along on the slower ones!
Brassblower - have you got that link to the tour page? the one for people
to sign up, if they do it again?
The music sounds like it was a lot of fun. I thought in particular listening
to Jim Coogan and Joe Madden how they seemed so laid back. That’s
where I “played along from home” but actually it seemed to be going at
quite a clip!
I loved listening to Eileen Ivers playing straight up trad again, and there’s
at least 2 great tracks of Joanie playing where you can hear her flute very
clearly - I forget where they are now.
Arty McGlynn and Nollaig Casey sounded very impressive. I wonder the
names of the singers on the other sessions.
Hey, thanks for the background, lesl! A friend sent me that link yesterday and while I unquestioningly loved (and will continue to love!) the stuff there, I couldn’t help but wonder what the story behind it was.
Funny enough, I seem to remember that during the NJ Comhaltas
convention a couple years ago, CIE brochures were hand-outs. And then
couple yrs later, this!
Last night I started to work on Tie the Bonnet, a great reel which I’ve
heard before but never had. (Dublin track 17 after the Abbey aka Irish-
American).
I also really like the 11 minute Galway 12 track, which I suspect was Joe
Madden “in the zone”.
Ahhh! What happened to the fiddlebooth site that had the Nollaig Casey/Artie McGylnn stuff on it?? I went once, and didn’t save it to my favorite and now can’t get to it again (says exceeded band width)? That was AMAZING music… anyone have a idea, is it down permanently?
Are you coming Tuesday night? I downloaded all the files and can burn a CD for you (probably as MP3s, as I’M not sure how many discs it would take converted to standard Compact Disc audio).
You the willie from C&F chat? Send me an email, and I’ll see if I can fit it on a disc for you. I ship the Wooden Flute Obsession CDs to N. Ireland all the time.
Thank you so much. I had no idea such trips existed … hmmmmm. And thanks for the tune tip. I’m hoping to get a little time with the whole thing this weekend. Again, thank you! What fun, and good luck with Tie the Bonnet. Same for me; have heard but never learned. Shoot, I haven’t even tried. (So many tunes, so little ability, sigh …) Because as I recall, it’s a corker!
Best,
cat.
P.S. And thank you to Kevin for helping music-starved people everywhere. What a great world.
…must be popular 
What a great world.