Mid-July…sunny day!
Yes, it’s Thursday again – had a wonderful seisiún in Crotty’s Bar, Kilrush on Tuesday – do join us next Tuesday there!
Tonight…Thurs July 14th 2016 – Open seisiún at Cruises Bar in Ennis with Aine Heslin, (myself) tin-whistle and flute, Jimmy Clancy button accordion. Starting 8:30pm and all are welcome to join or listen and enjoy the evening together. I will play some new material too. https://www.facebook.com/cruises.bar/?fref=ts
Tomorrow night – Fri July 15th 2016 – seisiún in Fitzpatrick’s Bar, Kilkee with Matt, Áine Heslin and friends (we’ll have a special guest Sorcha Curtin on concertina!). http://www.fitzpatrickskilkee.com/ https://www.facebook.com/FitzpatricksKilkee/?fref=ts
Come West along the road!
Yes – heading home to the West tonight – or close anyway! Helping host a seisiún in Foley’s, Cross ( https://www.facebook.com/pages/Foleys-Bar-Cross-village/137737369646985 or http://loopheadclare.com/foleys-bar-grocery-shop/) as the start of the Loophead Gathering Festival (https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=loophead%20gathering%20festival) with some friends and returning visiting musicians incl many from Kildare! Join us there if you’re back. (back West i.e.)
Great start to July!
No photos of the last few nights but they were so good! In Myles’ Creek, Kilkee we played with Niamh Casey and had visiting musicians Pat Keating on accordion and Tim on tinwhistle so, mighty music. Little Amelia danced and applauded very prettily – I think she is two! We met many lovely tourists including a cycling group who were seeing a lot of the coast of Clare…plenty to see! I actually bumped into them yesterday in Miltown Malbay enjoying the buzz of the Willie Clancy (see last post).
Last night I played in the infamous Crotty’s pub in Kilrush with Orla Coughlan (fiddle) and young Tara O’Malley (concertina) and again had a lovely seisiún, meeting some great people from the States and from Dublin. Tara wowed all with her solo-playing (she has a gorgeous style and a steady rhythm to die for!!) 🙂 The seisiún is there now every Tues night for the summer.
See you on Thursday evening (7th) in Ennis at Cruises – all welcome. Same time – same place. Enjoy Miltown if you are there! 😉
Wet but wonderfully musical July!!
We had a fine finish to the month of June in Cruises with the help of Jimmy Clancy’s son John on banjo, Pat Keating on accordion and a visitor from Germany (Wilfred I think?) on concertina – and on his way to his 25th year of Willie Clancy Summer School! I’ve given a couple of links to the summer school below for your information – I included the Wikipedia version as I particularly liked the paragraph ‘The Craic’. 🙂 Jimmy certainly has the craic with us every Thurs!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Clancy_Summer_School
http://www.scoilsamhraidhwillieclancy.com/
Last night was our seisiún in Fitzpatrick’s pub in Kilkee. Matt, myself, Orla Coughlan on fiddle and also, Tara O’Malley joined us on concertina. It was so cool to play some of my tunes with the girls – tunes like ‘Walking the Dog/A Tribute to Michael Tubridy’ and ‘Eire Sign’ – and played better than myself too. If you feel like looking up the notes – click onto the ‘Music’ page above and then click on whichever name of tune you want – the notes should show up for you.
Tomorrow night (Sunday 3rd July) we’ll be playing with Niamh Casey in Myles Creek, Kilkee so be sure to pop in (8:30pm) before hitting Miltown for the week!!
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