Am I just 'traditionally style-less?'

[Rob Sharer]

Dang, Jim, well put.

By the way, we missed you on Sunday, apparently...


Rob

[jim stone]

Sorry, Rob, not to be in touch. I'm injured and trying hard not to play, so I'll get well.
The only hope is to stay away from the music, cause once I start there's
no stopping me. Also I'm trying to play box, which involves only rt hand fingers,
but I'm such a newbie. And I think
it's depressing when someone shows up who is injured.

I'll put in an appearance at some point though. Ted gave me a box lesson
yesterday, lovely fellow. You folks sure are blessed with good musicians.

Thanks again, Jim

[Julia Delaney]

Clare itself is a crazy quilt of different styles

Yes true. Lately I've been playing with Tom Driscoll, a concertina player in his mid-fifties who grew up listening to, and playing concertina with, John and Paddy Kilhoury, from Liscannor. Tom grew up in Moymore. Such a local style is very focused and in many ways very limiting. The tunes are unlike anything most players of ITM would have heard. Tom himself has a hard time playing tunes from the more widely accepted Irish repertoire. I can't imagine that such an intense, inwardly focused style will last more than another generation. The young kids today are learning mostly from musicians who have been exposed to a much wider range of musical style. But the young fiddlers from Donegal still sound like Donegal fiddlers, and flute-players from Roscommon sound different from the ceili-band style of the Hynes brothers.

That said, you'd seldom hear a Donegal tune, contra-dance or bluegrass or old-timey tunes, or a tune from Scotland or England, at most local Irish sessions. I mean by local a session with musicians who are coming from less than fifteen miles away, and who play together on a more-or-less regular basis. ITM sessions are less diluted than ITM sessions in other countries. In America I'd imagine that sessions would follow the stylistic guidance of iconic (is that the right word?) players. In Chicago you'd have Liz Carroll (herself), John Williams (whose father came from Doolin), John Crevan (Co. Galway). In New York sessions would be much more oriented to Sligo than, say, San Francisco. I think. Is there a Irish regional style in San Diego or the bay area?

[Kirk B]

What's a hick to do?

After thinking more on this it should be a pretty simple choice. Y'all got BOTH kinds of music down there. Country AND Western. Just pick one and run with it.

(-_-)

-Kirk

[Rob Sharer]

I often say it myself:

"Folks, we're going to play some country music now...and the country is Ireland."


Rob

[talasiga]

...... but the style isn't country

[Rob Sharer]

"That's a joke, son! I keep a' throwin' 'em, and you keep a' missin' 'em. Pay, I say, pay attention, boy!"


F.L.

[gregdidge]

Doo-Da Doo-Da

[Aanvil]

"That's a joke, son! I keep a' throwin' 'em, and you keep a' missin' 'em. Pay, I say, pay attention, boy!"


F.L.

LOL

[Denny]

....not sure that he'll get Foghorn either

[Kirk B]

"That's a joke, son! I keep a' throwin' 'em, and you keep a' missin' 'em. Pay, I say, pay attention, boy!"


F.L.

Yup!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZfUnCK5qk

[talasiga]

ironic repartee sharer

[Azalin]

There's too much brain power and not enough irish music in this thread!

[ImNotIrish]

There's too much brain power and not enough irish music in this thread!

Here, here! Perhaps the thread has exhausted itself?
I have concluded that I am indeed, 'traditionally style-less.'

[MTGuru]

There's too much thread in this thread.