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
Willie week 2017
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Re: Willie week 2017
Hello
Thanks Peter for the photographs. Very much appreciated by those of us who couldn't make it this year. Nice to see the Eoin Kenny's fashion sense hasn't deserted him.
Keep well
John
Thanks Peter for the photographs. Very much appreciated by those of us who couldn't make it this year. Nice to see the Eoin Kenny's fashion sense hasn't deserted him.
Keep well
John
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Yes, thank you for posting the pipers from Willie Week. Makes me wanna learn the pipes.
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Only a few of them, very few of them.the pipers from Willie Week
Sorry about that, I usually try for a bit more variety but this was just a little sample for the piping forum without the intention of leading anyone astray.Makes me wanna learn the pipes.
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Nice pics as ever. Just one small thing - it's Mikey Smyth not Mickey Smith.
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Eeeh.. yes. I know it's Smyth. And that's how I spelled it, twice, in the post above. I'll grant you I got Mikie wrong but you got that wrong yourself as well.it's Mikey Smyth not Mickey Smith.
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Yeah ... I've seen it spelled both Mikey and Mikie. Mikey several times on Comhaltas pages so I picked that. Also, that's the way I thought it was, but could be wrong. The point though is that it's definitely not Mickey.Mr.Gumby wrote:Eeeh.. yes. I know it's Smyth. And that's how I spelled it, twice, in the post above. I'll grant you I got Mikie wrong but you got that wrong yourself as well.it's Mikey Smyth not Mickey Smith.