Some piping snaps from the Willie week. It’s one of those days where the warm mist from the ocean changes into wet and windy and back, so I am sorting through things.
Some lovely piping during the week, best not single anyone out (for fear of leaving anyone out) but Tiarnan Duinchin and Mickey Smyth creating stunning soundscapes while playing Dm-ish airs. There were some pipers I hadn’t heard for decades: Finbar Furey, Eoin Kenny among them, bringing back memories of the sounds of the seventies and early eighties. Simon Doyle and his family were playing great stuff on the street all the time, Eanna Drury doing great work playing classic Ennis and Reck tunes (and more). Not to mention encounters with people I hadn’t talked to for thirty years (Heather, what a great surprise!!), and the ones that hadn’t been away that long. All put together, it made for a good one.
-Finbar Furey at the graveside-
- Simon Doyle playing in the street-
-Eoin Kenny-
-Mickey Smyth doing his lunchtime recital-
-Maeve McCann, at lunchtime in the hall-
-Eanna Drury, also at lunchtime-
The Doyle family
Marion McCarthy at the saturdaynight concert
