Anyone playing in Cork? 'cos that’s where I’m gonna be on St Paddy’s Day.
JessieK, so lovely to see you posting again, I missed your posts for the past few weeks!
On 2002-03-13 03:04, JimmyM wrote:
NancyF, do you hear tune sets the same way as you’d put a patchwork quilt together? What does an ‘Ohio Star’ or a ‘Log Cabin’ sound like?
Jimmy, I do find interesting similarities in the naming of tunes and quilt blocks or quilt patterns. They are both great examples of folk naming systems. Names change when someone reinvents an existing pattern or tune, when a tune or pattern name is forgotton, or when a slight variation is named on its own.
As for working at the quilt shop, you’re right, it is mostly for fun rather than money. 
Thanks, Martin.
Our group, “Batteries Not Included”, is doing a charity fund-raiser at a local church dinner on Sat. Mar 16th. We don’t get paid, but we get all the Corned Beef & Cabbage we can handle :>) Playing for about three hours.
Playing at a local community college on Friday as part of their music series.
Steve
Hey Sara! My daughter gave me a copy of Drums of Jupiter. It’s brilliant!
This thread has prompted me to ask a question to solve a mystery I’ve never understood:
Why is Paddy’s Day celebrated all over the world (including in my two home towns, London and Sydney), but not in Ireland?
Why is Paddy’s Day celebrated all over the world (including in my two home towns, London and Sydney), but not in Ireland?
I’m just guessing, but I assume that the Irish have been honoring their Patron Saint on his feast day for the last millenium and half the way good Catholics are supposed to:
Go to church
Light a candle
Say the Rose (Ave, Marie…)
Buy a Pagan Baby (does anyone else remember that one?)
I think we Irish-Americans can take credit for the Eat-CornedBeef-Have-a-parade-and-drink-yourself-sick innovation that has helped to sell the holiday world-wide.
And I have heard that they have been running parades and such in Ireland lately, so who know?
bye
Bill
Wow.
To tell the truth, this year, suprisingly, I don’t have a gig on St. Patrick’s Day.
Last year I did, but then the guy who I played with(and who got me to do it) isn’t playing this year, so I wasn’t asked.
I’m actually not dissapointed or anything… In fact, I’m quite glad. I probably won’t be asked to play ‘Danny Boy’ or ‘My Wild Irish Rose’ 20 million times! That, and I’ll be very, very busy in May which will “make up for it” 
.
I find that gigs kind of “travel in groups…”
You may not have one for a long time, and then WHAMMMOOO! all at once.
Gig??? I WISH I had a gig. Heck, I wish I had a freakin band.
Band??? I wish I had a freakin whistle. Or a freakin clue.
Clue??? I wish I had a point. (shut up about the top of my head.)
I’ll (uninvited) play my whistle at my family’s annual St Patrick’s Day dinner. If they don’t appreciate it, I’ll pull out the banjo for good measure. Yeah, that’ll learn 'em. Later, I’ll play with a small band, Tinker’s Damn, (sorry for cussing) at McGrath’s Pub in Alameda, CA. We’ve invited our session gang to attend an hour after we start to take up the slack. (This will allow more time for swallowing dark colored drinks- which I hope to not have to pay for. My needs are modest.) I’m planning on sticking my neck out and playing Bucks of Oranmore at a quick clip accompanied by an accelerating bodhran player. (I’ve warned him several times about that.) He assures me he’ll be cool.
So, I guess we’re doing this in honor of St. Patrick, patron saint of bar owners. Have fun and drive safely.
Tony
Or better yet, don’t drive at all.
(tossing back a pint or four)
Why is Paddy’s Day celebrated all over the world (including in my two home towns, London and Sydney), but not in Ireland?
I copied this quote from another message and couldn’t see who wrote the original - erroneous - comment.
Have you been to Ireland on St. Patrick’s day? There will be parades in Dublin, Limerick, Cork and many other cities. Many small towns and villages also have parades. One tiny village in West Cork is celebrating with the world’s smallest parade - 25 yards long! There will be music in many pubs, our local pub even had a seanachie last year (say Shanna-Quay!) to tell stories. Some arades were curtailed last year due to foot and mouth, but Ireland will celebrate Paddy’s day, ‘please God’.
Steve
Believe it or not, I’m going to play at a party for the patients at the county psychiatric hospital (and no, I’m not one of them).
I played on Thursday at a St.Patrick’s Day party at the local nursery school. What a great audience!
Jim
I’ve been doing it all my life. it’s very rewarding. Fair play to ya!
Steve
(formerly head of a psychiatric hospital training school).
well, to my utmost surprise I didn’t play the session at the bar/restaurant where I was expected, nor did I go to the Concert to benefit CT CHildren’s Hospital. But I did play in a hospital to a most appreciative audience.
If anyone’s interested, here’s some pics from one of our gigs on St. Paddy’s Day. Due to the high humidity and the fact that we were directly under AC vents, I chose to play the PVC Silkstone pretty much this entire gig, though I do think that the Silkstone alloy sounds much better in the 2nd octave.
http://www.tinwhistler.com/music/gallery/stpaddys_2002/index_stpaddys_2002.html