RVIA workshop - June 6-9 in Mollkirch/Alsace (France)

Whistle
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Any european chiffers going to the Rhine Valley Irish Association’s dance & music workshop? Flute class with Eamonn Cotter, whistle class with Geraldine Cotter. Please let me know if you will be there.

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The facts:

  1. Beginning 2003, Claudine, Amar vanish.

  2. Sunday May 11th, 2003, Amar comes back

  3. Next day Monday May 12th, 2003, Claudine reappears too

Welcome back… but something’s fishy:
In what kind of workshop did you hide together? :laughing:

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Would love to… right in my neck of the woods, too. Not planning a trip back to the old neighborhood this summer, though. Got to make the doughnuts.
:frowning:

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Wow, I’d do anything to get lessons from Geraldine Cotter. She’s an amazing whistle player. Same with Eamon on the flute. Does the Cotter family speak french?

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I guess the French will have to speak English. Btw, I’ll take the flute class with Eamonn.

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Interesting Az. Reading the other night I ran across the word “métairie” and since it sounded very close to your name I decided to find out what it actually meant . Well, it’s what might be called a “sharecropper’s cottage”, and a “métayer” is a sharecropper. Now the old English word for sharecropper, which I heard not long ago in a Irish context, is… “cotter”.

Therefore “Cotter” is the English equivalent of “Métayer”. No wonder you are drawn to Geraldine, she’s family.

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I kinda suspected it, I noticed that Eamonn, Geraldine and I shared some similarities. Now, it’s time to leave the city and live on a farm!

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Well you’re just massively lucky. I have got a few MP3s at home given to me by another Chiff member, Eamonn is playing the flute in an intervew or something like that. It’s just amazing flute playing. I have learned a few tunes from his playing, and my favorite moments are when I sit down and play along his music. His style is very warm, mellow, subtle variations, etc. I think it’s Clare style at it’s best.

I have also heard Geraldine play whistle before, and also have her old tutorial tunes on CD. She plays the whistle like a Goddess. Maybe not technically as good as Mary Bergin, but she’ll blow Mary Bergin away with her style and phrasing.

Well, that’s just my opinion, but I had to justify my jealousy :slight_smile:

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Rhine Valley Irish Association’s

as in the Rhine Valley in Germany?

Which part of France is this Festival Claudine?

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In Alsace = Elsass. Just accross the Rhein, near the Schwarzwald. It’s near Strasbourg.

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I would love to go, its only a few hours drive from me as well. I will have to ask the wife for a leave pass see if she will let me go!