I luuuuuurve figs, especially fresh ones. Off
to my parents'
in Spain for a week next Tuesday! No music save my own, but hopefully loads of figs!!!!! They have trees. And wine. And sun - though we have finally had a bit of that this last week instead of the solid rain Britain has endured since April. No ITM
to speak of
in Andalucia, but I have got
to practice hard for a giglet I've got after I get home. I'm doing a half-hour programme of unaccompanied Welsh material on assorted flutes as a support act
to Chris Wilkes's
Diskan in Dolgellau on August 24th - anyone
in the area (Mid/North Wales) fancy it? More info here if anyone wants
to know....
http://www.tysiamas.com/welcome.cfm, or on Diskan's site
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/diskan/index.htm.
BTW Talasiga,
what do figs do
to you?
On topic, I went
to some good
sessions in the Sligo area a few years back (my first ever
trip to Ireland!) - can't remember which nights, but there's a good local one with lots of "old boys"
in Easky and several
in Sligo town - went
to one good one with generally younger players
in a rather ghastly modern open-plan bar, but the craic was good. Also try Gorteen. My limited session experience
in Ireland is that people (i.e. other musicians) are generally very welcoming - even
in spite of my very English accent!
I'm planning on bringing my flute although I've never actually played in a session (not many play irish music where I live :-/ ). I was wondering if you guys know of any beginner/intermediate sessions that I could try going to? Or perhaps some tutor who offers lessons to people coming in from the street... (a bit short notice, I know 
