We’ve secured the date for the fall tionól this year. We’ll be getting together :
Saturday, October 2nd at 1:00 pm
Once again, we’ll be meeting at St. Joseph the Worker in West Jordan, UT. in the activity hall. Details can be found on the website:
http://www.saltlakepipers.com/Events-Meetings.html
We’d love to see you there!
Brian~
Also just found out a couple of days ago that Dervish will be in town in March of 2005 for a show up in Logan. We’re trying to see if we can arrange a session or house concert or something a bit more informal and intimate before the guys have to soldier on to their next tour date.
And the Chieftains will be returning to Ogden in January of 2005 to play a concert with the Utah Symphony (I believe Keith Lockhart will be conducting this one again). A great show to be sure.
Check the site for details.
Best,
Bri~
Just over a week to go. Things are shaping up to be a great time as always! See you there -
Won’t that interfere with the welfare session of General Conference? Eh, well that’s the time most of the state washes the car anyway…
Royce
(And note I’ve been here months and months and months and not once gave sway to the urge to work in a “Joseph E Smith” pun–like, “I spent 10 years in Provo, and it turns out if I’d stayed in Minneapolis during those years, I could have actually met Joseph Smith…”)
I’m sure if you put up the airfare Joe would be happy to come and make your acquaintance. 
djm
Free airfare, free food and board, free admission, free women of questionalble charater, free money…lotsa free money? I’m there…
Truth be known, I would like to visit Utah again, it has been a while. Unfortunately school has got me more than busy…even over the weekends (clinical internship and all)…and a trip out of state would not be possible…sigh. I do want to attend someday in the not too distant future. Good luck and have some fun! 
Geez, this is too easy!
Can’t you see the headline in the Salt Lake Tribune?
JOSEPH SMITH IN TRIUMPHANT RETURN!
– Sandy, Utah, by Tribune Staff
Joseph Smith is set to make his triumphant return to Utah next weekend, when he will appear before a group of musicians known as “uilleann pipers”, as they gather for a conference on topics that have yet to be disclosed.
The tionol, as it is known to the pipers, will take place on Saturday, October 2, at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Parish.
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Heathens!!!
…I’ve been trying to avoid the obvious…really…honest…truthfully…sigh
So this Cardinal comes running up to the Pope with a mobile phone in his hand shouting, “Holy Father, it’s our Lord Jesus Christ, He’s come back and he wants to speak with you!”
“And he’s on the telephone?” wonders the startled Pope.
“Yes,” gasps the Cardinal, catching his breath, “I seems he’s calling from Salt Lake City…”
Royce
OK, so here’s another version:
President Hinckley, president of the Mormon church is seated in his office high in the towering Latter-day Saint headquarters downtown Salt Lake City. In rushes one of his counselors, holding out a cellular phone.
“President, it’s the Lord–He’s returned and wants to speak with you!” says the counselor.
“You mean he’s on the phone? Are you sure it’s Him? Shouldn’t he be in the temple or something?” gasps the prophet.
“Well, yes, He’s in town, but He’s tied up in another meeting over at St. Joseph the Worker’s. He’s in some sort of bagpiping seminar…”
Royce
When I was around twelve or so, I used to play the organ for mass, and it was a big goal of mine to play the massive pipe organ in the Mormon Tabernacle. I used to muse that with a name like mine , I should’nt have any trouble seeing that dream come to fruition.
When ever I get back to Salt Lake City, I’m gonna give it a try.
You guys are too much. Ya know, the organs here (there are several now for the different buildings and some are old and have been retired etc…) are just a giant uilleann pipe with a bunch of whistles carved out of telephone poles and giant brass tubing stock! Well, that may be a bit of an oversimplification but…
…hey. it works for me. But I am serious about trying out the behemouth in the Tabernacle.
Yes, “Smoke on the Water” or “InnaGoddaDavida” would sound pretty massive on that sucker!
djm
I was thinking Procal Harem: ‘Whiter Shade of Pale’…or Elton John’s ‘Funeral For a Friend’.
I used to play J.S. Bach’s Toccata et Fugue. Great organ tune. I am sooo out of practice on the keyboard instruments.
I do need to start teaching my kids though and maybe that will get me back into it. Like I have the time.
The one in D minor? Mighty tune, for both hands and feat! I also liked to play the G minor fugue, aka the ‘little fugue in G minor’.
Oh, I like the little Fugue in G too, but I never tried it. The D minor one is what I was refering to. There was a wonderful old movie called something like “The Pilgrams Path” where this guy plays the big pipe organ at a cathedral at the end of the film.