what on Earth is that costume about??
Yes in Vaudville, Irish performers wore top hats and kneebreeches etc, but this is far beyond that.
bizarre Irish piper's costume photo
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bizarre Irish piper's costume photo
the thread title says it all...
what on Earth is that costume about??
Yes in Vaudville, Irish performers wore top hats and kneebreeches etc, but this is far beyond that.
what on Earth is that costume about??
Yes in Vaudville, Irish performers wore top hats and kneebreeches etc, but this is far beyond that.
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Re: bizarre Irish piper's costume photo
Oh yes, that's Edmund Huther, probably just back from his Corned Beef-Belt tour of the Ottoman Empire. He regularly made the circuit entertaining the Galatians (Anatolian Celts) at their summer retreats in Cappadocia at the turn of the last century.
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Re: bizarre Irish piper's costume photo
It's in fact Johnny Patterson. Huhter was the photographer. Full article in Ceol V(II), march 1982
see also : Johnny Patterson
He had the best (and only ) reason for wearing a clown's outfit: he was a fecking clown by profession.
For the seriously deluded costumes watch Billy Andrews in this old newsreel
see also : Johnny Patterson
He had the best (and only ) reason for wearing a clown's outfit: he was a fecking clown by profession.
For the seriously deluded costumes watch Billy Andrews in this old newsreel
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Re: bizarre Irish piper's costume photo
Fezzy. What is so odd about this costume? I know a piper who might wear something like this...he likes the attention.
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Re: bizarre Irish piper's costume photo
I always thought that was Johnny Patterson too....
I wonder who Huther was, the photographer...
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... terson.htm
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I wonder who Huther was, the photographer...
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... terson.htm
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Re: bizarre Irish piper's costume photo
he looks to have the same spidery fingers Seamus Ennis had...
though I doubt Seamus would have gussied up like that
though I doubt Seamus would have gussied up like that
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Re: bizarre Irish piper's costume photo
I think it could be a picture of Uilliam Hackett before he went long and grey.pancelticpiper wrote:the thread title says it all...
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Re: bizarre Irish piper's costume photo
rather fetching ensemble methinks btw the author o dis post is d last one 2comment on bizarre costumes....aka druids etc 
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Re: bizarre Irish piper's costume photo
love the ice bucket hat!!
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Re: bizarre Irish piper's costume photo
Ok lads, I've discovered something..
When I zoomed in with my zoominator 3000, I noticed the chair is actually circa 2006
The photo is of Uilliam taken only a few short months ago, somewhere in Vienna...
Now we know what he's been up to....
When I zoomed in with my zoominator 3000, I noticed the chair is actually circa 2006
The photo is of Uilliam taken only a few short months ago, somewhere in Vienna...
Now we know what he's been up to....
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Re: bizarre Irish piper's costume photo
hey, ya know..that's showbiz for ya!pancelticpiper wrote:the thread title says it all...
what on Earth is that costume about??
Yes in Vaudville, Irish performers wore top hats and kneebreeches etc, but this is far beyond that.
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Re: bizarre Irish piper's costume photo
Glad I don't have to wear that outfit for my Celtic Woman shows!
But don't give them any ideas..... LOL
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But don't give them any ideas..... LOL
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Re: bizarre Irish piper's costume photo
Whoops, sorry, already wrote CW management. After your all-too-brief stint as Elvis, this seemed a natural. And you'd look so fetching in that wee cap.
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