The San Francisco Piper’s Club is sponsoring a Tionol on Feb. 13-15th in Berkeley. Guest pipers will be Joey Abarta and Preston Howard. $75 fee for the weekend whether paid in advance or at the door. The concert will be on Sat. the 14th at the Freight and Salvage. Concert admission is separate from the Tionol fee. More information is posted on the club website; www.sfpipersclub.org . An email telling us you will attend would be nice. Show up unannounced, if need be. All are welcome.
You guys always do it right - having this event over the long President’s Day weekend. Will there be reed help?
K
Michael Hubbet will be attending. We will ask him to do reeds. I will also be available for reeds. We have been holding tionols on this weekend for 35 years, alternating with Seattle the last 33 years.
Is the Friday get together at Peter’s house?
Yes, Peter and Sabra will host it.
I’ll be there too, with all 5 regulators, and my co-passenger Brad Angus, good news in case your BA UP needs some TLC, ASAP.
Is there room in the car for a baked ham, Kevin?
Do you guys have a Piper’s Chair event?
K
The piper’s chair has been a feature for the last 35 years. It is on Sunday afternoon.
Alas, no more room for hams, baked or otherwise, aka passengers… 
That was a good time, altogether. Thanks to all for the music, lodging, travel, eats, drink, company.
Ted, Todd, and Peter were wondering whether Breandán Breathnach played the pipes. Indeed he did, here is a photo from the Man and His Music book:
From Wikipedia: “Breathnach grew up in the Liberties of Dublin, where his father was a silk weaver. His uncle Joe was a player of the uileann pipes and a member of the Piper’s Club. He started learning the pipes from John Potts of Wexford and William Andrews, then with the renowned piper Leo Rowsome.”
About Séamus Ennis, they say he was very slow putting the pipes on. What’s the big hurry? I think about that whenever I’m cobbling my own set together, where I grew up things proceeded at a gentle clip, people in cities are always in this awful hurry.
Here’s a bit of a podcast done at the tionol by a lovely cat from Armagh, Donagh McKeown. Most of it’s an interview with Ted Anderson about the pipers’ club, also a bit of chat with myself, Joey A, Cormac Gannon, Kevin Carr on stage telling a story/playing a tune, and more.
Speaking of podcasts, Breandán Breathnach etc: Breandán Breathnach podcast
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That was interesting Kevin , thanks
RORY
Thanks for that, Peter.