All the leaves are brown, winter's closing in...
23/11/09 16:31
As I feel the demise of
my favorite season... and the golden leaves have
mostly fallen... yet some – still tenuously
cling overhead... and the days somehow seem more
Winter grey than cool Autumn blue... And that chill
that sets in, as the day grows dark… I feel
it... Winter is closing in… and I’m sad
to see the Fall drifting away, like the
leaves… but I somehow anticipate the warm
fires that will chase that chill, in the ever
increasing darkness that envelopes the cold nights as
the Winter Solstice approaches...
So I’m gearing up for new fiddle tunes… when the icy weather keeps me inside… and the snow begins to fall… I'll feel quiet I'm sure... like snow falls in the silence of night... Pensive perhaps... alive in my mind, reaching, searching... but I’ll never be bored... as long as there are tunes to learn, and play, and a fiddle or dulcimer laying around to play it on...
Here’s what feels to me to be a winter type of set... First tune is off a cd by - The Boys of the Lough – a Shetland dance tune called “Da Cold nights o’ Winter”… and we go into… a tune learned from fiddler, Matt Cranitch – “Boys of Malin” – a Donegal tune. Have fun! Enjoy the beautiful season! Happy Thanksgiving…
Cold Nights of Winter_Boys of Malin 16-28-08
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So I’m gearing up for new fiddle tunes… when the icy weather keeps me inside… and the snow begins to fall… I'll feel quiet I'm sure... like snow falls in the silence of night... Pensive perhaps... alive in my mind, reaching, searching... but I’ll never be bored... as long as there are tunes to learn, and play, and a fiddle or dulcimer laying around to play it on...
Here’s what feels to me to be a winter type of set... First tune is off a cd by - The Boys of the Lough – a Shetland dance tune called “Da Cold nights o’ Winter”… and we go into… a tune learned from fiddler, Matt Cranitch – “Boys of Malin” – a Donegal tune. Have fun! Enjoy the beautiful season! Happy Thanksgiving…
Cold Nights of Winter_Boys of Malin 16-28-08
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Halloween Irish Music Session at St. Stephen's Green!
01/11/09 15:16
This year's Halloween session brought a host of
guests & goblins out of the wood work... some of
them... ALL the way from Waterford, Ireland!
We were so pleased to have Sean & Mary Dumphy come to the pub, and thrilled as ever to hear Sean play his beautiful accordian music for us!
They brought with them their lovely friends... and it was wonderful to see everyone again!
The Ghosts and creatures that ventured in that night... first being our dear Lyn, who claimed to have a spliting head ache...
There was a Guinness Stout... a goul of some sort... a VERY scary witch... but isn't she always?
a Scarecrow... and a confused... Central Jersey sports fan... We had a Crazy Viking chic with a Banjo...
and TONS AND TONS of tunes and songs that had our patrons dancing, laughing and enjoying the night!!!
Thank you all... for coming out
and making the night of Irish music and scary
creatures even MORE fun!
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We were so pleased to have Sean & Mary Dumphy come to the pub, and thrilled as ever to hear Sean play his beautiful accordian music for us!
They brought with them their lovely friends... and it was wonderful to see everyone again!
The Ghosts and creatures that ventured in that night... first being our dear Lyn, who claimed to have a spliting head ache...
There was a Guinness Stout... a goul of some sort... a VERY scary witch... but isn't she always?
a Scarecrow... and a confused... Central Jersey sports fan... We had a Crazy Viking chic with a Banjo...
and TONS AND TONS of tunes and songs that had our patrons dancing, laughing and enjoying the night!!!
Thank you all... for coming out
and making the night of Irish music and scary
creatures even MORE fun!
Read More...