USA: Greensboro, NC, session

Sessions, Concerts & Events
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:smiley: :smiley: :smiley: I just found out about an Irish session is in Greensboro, NC.

The Red Oak Brew Pub opens its doors on the LAST Sunday of the month at 4:00pm until 7pm for Trad Irish music.

Red Oak address is:

714 Francis King St.
Greensboro, NC

(336) 299-3649

ā€¦if you know Greensboro, itā€™s at the corner of W. Friendly and Guilford College Rd. to give you an ideaā€¦

Iā€™ll give you my report Monday morning and let you know how it turned out!

Slainte!

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I was pleasantly surprised on such a large turn out for the session at the Red Oak! 16 musicians playing lively traditional Irish Music. There were several fiddle players, Irish flutes, Tin whistles, concertas, guitars and Uilleann Pipes! I got there around 6:30 and we played until 8:00ā€¦what a great time. I got a small list of tunes and hopefully Iā€™ll have some ready for next month. :wink:

If you live close enough to go next month then by all means go!

By the wayā€¦the beer was pretty good too! :smiley:

Slainte!

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More importantly, the beer is free :wink:

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While Iā€™m at it, two other Triad sessions:

  1. Foothills Brewery, 4th St., downtown Winston-Salem.
    First sunday of the month
    4-6pm
    Two pints free. (Although the beer isn;t as good as Red Oak.)

  2. Claddagh Restaurant, High Point, NC
    3rd sunday of the month
    4:30 - ???
    I believe domestic ā€œbeerā€ is free. But itā€™s definitely worse than either Foothills or Red Oak.

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Oooo, thatā€™s worth the drive!
So, whatā€™s the etiquette for this sort of thing? The Tir Na Nog
session in Raleigh has free beer, but Iā€™m never sure how to get
ahold of some without feeling like Iā€™m trying to fool the bartender

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Red Oak is great- they assign a waitperson for the group the entire evening. They pop by between sets and ask for orders. A month ago I dropped a full pint and it shattered (nearly missing a set of UPs) and they still let me in the door!

Foothills - you go up to the bartender, tell him yer a musician, and heā€™ll provide the pint.

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Hmmmm, I might have to check these out. Iā€™m an aspiring novice UPiper in Burlington. It will be a year (or two) before I can play well enough to join a session, but I would like to see some pipesā€¦etc. in action. At least I could pick up a tune list.

And yes, the Red Oak brewery is excellent! The only brewery I can think of that might be better is Front Street Brewery in Wilmington (alas, that is a bit of a drive and I doubt it has an ITM session).

Peace!
Reepicheep

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Red Oak is now the last SATURDAY of the month, 3 Pm or so.

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Red Oak is now the last SATURDAY of the month, time moved back to 5:30 or so.

Last month we were invaded by 60 drunk hibernians and could not hear a damn thing. Tomorrow should be better.

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Are there any sessions still on? Iā€™m going to be in Greensboro for work from Sunday - Wednesday (leaving Thursday) and I could bring a flute along.

Nico

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Hello Nico :slight_smile:

Tate St Coffee House in Greensboro. Sundays at 3pm .

Hope to see you there!

~Michael

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Unfortunately it looks like I will be unable to make it to that one. My flight lands at 4.

Ah well, another time!