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Willie 50
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2022 10:43 am
by Mr.Gumby
Re: Willie 50
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2022 1:46 am
by Ceann Cromtha
Yes, we’re interested. Thank you so much for posting these wonderful photographs!
Re: Willie 50
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2022 2:51 am
by Seanie
Absolutely wonderful Peter.
Thanks for posting these. I look forward to seeing any others that you may have.
The lighting in the Macdara one is spot on.
Cheers
John
Re: Willie 50
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2022 3:49 am
by Mr.Gumby
Re: Willie 50
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2022 4:48 am
by rorybbellows
Great photos Peter, obviously the best decision made for a long time was making you the official photographer.
RORY
Re: Willie 50
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2022 5:55 am
by Mr.Gumby
Liam McNulty used to bring out all the pupils of the more advanced piping classes out, creating a record of players. It also had the advantage you could catch players who were to grow into proper pipers very young. I cooperated on a few occasions during the late nineties/early naughties. This sort of thing:
That particular film also has images of young Louise Mulcahy, Seamus O Rochain and a few others that are still going.
And there's the young and upcoming from concerts of the nineties:
It's good to have record like that. For the 50th Willie week a photo presentation was put together with images through the years, right from the start to 2019. It was running on screens in the Hall. A lot of things have changed since the early years, a lot of familiar faces gone.
Re: Willie 50
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2022 10:21 am
by rorybbellows
Mr.Gumby wrote: ↑Tue Jul 12, 2022 5:55 am a lot of familiar faces gone.
Great to see Dave hegerty still about
RORY
Re: Willie 50
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2022 10:35 am
by Mr.Gumby
Dave and his wife were on good form. It was good to see them. He was working away in the reedmaking room in the mornings, as usual.
Re: Willie 50
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2022 9:40 am
by PJ
Lovely photos. Have you considered putting together a book of photos of the WCSS over the years? I'm sure that there would be great interest in such a book.
Re: Willie 50
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2022 2:12 am
by Steampacket
Very nice photos there. Who is the young lady playing what seems to be a left-handed Wooff set? I've seen her before but can't think of her name. I recognise Rita and Marion, but not the other female pipers.
Good to hear that Dave Hegarty is still doing the reed making course. He was always very helpful. I heard that some people did get infected though, Jimmy O'Brien-Moran for one. Hope you managed to dodge the bug.
Re: Willie 50
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2022 2:44 am
by Mr.Gumby
The Willie Clancy Super Spreader name above was tongue in cheek. But only a little bit. It spread like wildfire. A lot of people came away with it.
The left handed set Muireann ni Shé is playing one of Derrick's and very nice it is too.
Re: Willie 50
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2022 4:19 am
by Seanie
She appears on the "Piping in the Parlour" series with her new set.
A lovely player and the set sounds wonderful as well.
Thanks Peter for giving us non-attendees a glimpse into the Willie 50.
According to the date on the right of the post I am 20 years on this site (would that be correct?)
John
Re: Willie 50
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:42 am
by Steampacket
Yes of course, Muireann Ni Shé, and Derrick was inspired/taught by Geoff. I looked at this video and the set does sound fine:
https://pipers.ie/source/media/?searchT ... 12&sPage=1
Re: Willie 50
Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2023 2:37 pm
by Mr.Gumby
During the Willie week a digitised photo exhibition looking back on 50 years of SSWC/WCSS ran on a big screen in the hall. Fun to see who you recognise, didn't everybody look young and how many we have lost and all that.
An, I believe, slightly extended version was posted on YouTube recently (I was told a few weeks ago it was to go up but didn't keep an eye out.). Kenny posted a link on thesession.org recently but it may be of interest here as well.
See
here
Re: Willie 50
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 5:09 am
by kenny
Hi Peter - they are a great series of photos, a veritable "who's-who" of the traditional musicians of Ireland in the last 50 years. Sometime last year, or possibly in 2021, we had some correpondence about a whistle player, a young lady whom I had heard performing at the Flute & Whistle recital in 1980, Mary Anne Sexton. Is that her to the right of Micho Russell in the photo at 1min ?
PS - great to remember the times when Darach de Brun - and some others, self included - had hair.