Joanie Madden sends her regards and this cool picture

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 9:34 am

I notice Utah's not on the CTL tour schedule for the next year or so. Bummer.

Susan

BrassBlower · Post by **BrassBlower** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:12 am

Kansas City Irish Festival in October? Woooo Bay-bee!

That's only 9 months to having "Sleepwalk" perfected, so I'd better get crackin'!

Joanie, whatever you do, PLEASE DON'T BRING THE RAIN BACK WITH YOU THIS TIME!

Lotsa love from your friend in Arklahoma,
Jim

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:18 am

StewySmoot wrote:Ms. Madden,

Please inform your friend that her hands are backward and her bottom pinky is not steadying the whistle.
Furthermore, she looks like she is blowing the whistle out of the side of her mouth instead of centred correctly.
These are essentials for improvement if she ever expects to play lively reels.

Smoot

LOL! Can I be a member of the Greybashers United, too?

sweet potato · Post by **sweet potato** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:26 am

Thanks for sharing the fantastic photo, and for continuing to share your great music. I enjoyed the CTL Christmas show at the Stoughton Opera House in December!

Cheers,

spuds

Jeff Stallard · Post by **Jeff Stallard** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:28 am

s1m0n wrote:If this was bluegrass, the price of brass & red generation whistles would be skyrocketting right now, as everyone rushed out to get one "just like Mary Bergin played.."

There'd be a whole bunch of earnest theories explaining that the plain brass finish produces a "much more traditional" sound than nickel-plated whistles.

Soon there would be a market for vintage brass generations from the seventies, and prices would climb still higher. Generation would attempt to cash in by issueing a "master model" generation whistle in brass, and would declare the brass & red plastic combination a trade mark, sending their lawyers at any company which attempts an imitation.

You sound like a mandolinist who's been burned by a "$1000 strap-hanger" before.

DRC · Post by **DRC** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:22 pm

Hi Joannie,

I was pleased to see that Roisin Dillon is now a part of CTL! I spent some time with she and her brother, Eammon, when their group was playing at an Irish Pub on Andrews Ave in Ft. Lauderdale a couple years back (can't remember the name). Love her fiddle playing and I'm sure she'll be a great adition to CTL. Eammon's quite an incredible musician himself. Both wonderful people.

Denny Cannon
SlipJig Celtic Band
Huntsville, AL

Azalin · Post by **Azalin** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:22 pm

Does someone know if Mary will be back in Catskills next july?

Montana · Post by **Montana** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:43 pm

mvhplank wrote:What?! Where?! Anybody got a link?
M

http://www.east-durham.org/irishartsweek/

I looked into this last summer. Maybe this is the impetus to try to make it this summer. Who wouldn't be interested?!
Az, didn't you have a cabin/house rented to attend this thing last summer?
Impromptu jams between excellent musicians are always the best - unexpected so you always are saying, "I can't believe I was able to see that".
Too bad you can't include a sound clip with this photo, Dale.
Mary, I also heard the CTL Christmas concert on NPR. It was a great way to spend an hour during the season. Of course, this was after reading the notification put out by Dale of the Christmas CD which I promptly went out and found.

BrassBlower · Post by **BrassBlower** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 7:24 pm

DRC wrote: Love her fiddle playing and I'm sure she'll be a great adition to CTL.

Believe me, she is!

(Edityd bcaus I cant tipe.)

StewySmoot · Post by **StewySmoot** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:42 pm

Bloomfield wrote:
StewySmoot wrote:Ms. Madden,

Please inform your friend that her hands are backward and her bottom pinky is not steadying the whistle.
Furthermore, she looks like she is blowing the whistle out of the side of her mouth instead of centred correctly.
These are essentials for improvement if she ever expects to play lively reels.

Smoot
LOL! Can I be a member of the Greybashers United, too?

We have who is recognized as a very good whistle player performing with what looks to be a $(USD)4.95 Gen D and breaking all of the rules on whistle decorum. So much for style over substance, eh?

Cant you just smell the irony?

Edited to remove stiffness and formality

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 9:00 pm

Just for fun ...

What's your definition of penultimate? (No looking allowed.)

Best wishes,
Jerry

Jeff Stallard · Post by **Jeff Stallard** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:08 am

If there were a contest to find the ultimate something, the penultimate would be the thing that took 2nd place.

happyturkeyman · Post by **happyturkeyman** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 2:49 am

Jerry Freeman wrote:Just for fun ...

What's your definition of penultimate? (No looking allowed.)

Best wishes,
Jerry

Just for fun:

For Latin words >2 syllables, the accent goes on the penultimate (second to last) syllable if that syllable is long. If the penultimate syllable is short, the accent goes on the antepenultimate syllable (third to last).

JessieK · Post by **JessieK** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 7:44 am

My husband has a Masters Degree in English Literature, and yet he used the word "penultimate" incorrectly before (and shortly after) we met.

JessieD · Post by **JessieD** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 9:04 am

I dont have a degree but I think it means next to perfect?

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