Pluckers and Thumpers not welcome

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0413/1224294553477.html

Any ideas how to deal with this situation (in a civil way)?

Frank McNally carried it to a constructive conclusion - festivals and workshops and events where the size of that group would be a minority, easily absorbed and an education in the end too. But I really enjoyed that other option he gave ~ to direct these session seekers “to the end of the pier in Kilrush, telling them that, from there, they should ”keep going until you see the Statue of Liberty”."

But, there are some lovely ‘organized’ Comhaltas events that they’d find a welcome and even a place to share their skills… So direction to the Comhaltas website would be another open option and welcome…

….how to deal with this situation (in a civil way)?
Civil for whom? Our responsibilty should be first and foremost to the victims of crime.

This was taken from a Mudcat thread:

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=136245&messages=28

It seems the article in the IT was somewhat hyperbolic. Only one poster was rude/blunt about the visit and it didn’t “go quiet”. In fact, it seemed to tail off quite amicably.

What some journalists will do for a story…..

What some members here will do for a thread…
🙂

Aye, but if your man McNally were to read some of these threads, he could fill a few columns.

What do you mean by that?
I hope you are not suggesting that all we do here is argue all the time. What a preposterous idea….
(snigger)

The band’s bodhran player is a “master of the instrument”… and now we have a new standard for “damning with faint praise”.

(He’s also a world-class stamp-licker, and an expert tic-tac-toe player)

Thanks for the link to the thread Prof., appreciated. I sympathize with both sides, but more so the pub that has hardly space for the musicians that attend regularly, and sometimes not even space for a few to line up along the bar for just a drink or a listen. And in my mind I imagined those three four plucker cases and trying to maneuver through tight spaces. 16, counting their cases/instruments, if they arrived early, in some venues, would leave not space for anyone else… 😀

Danny, just count the number of threads I posted in the last 12 months 🙂
I spent Easter in Clare last year but I didn’t bring any instrument. So I’m not guilty.

You know I’m joking Kuec, don’t you!

Oy!…. you! ….. Kiparsky! Have you heard Colm play?

Thought not.
I
have and he is very, very good. Indeed he is a ‘master of the instrument’. How is that faint praise?

I haven’t heard him, but I’m sure he’s a lovely player and a fine gentleman. But calling someone a “master of the bodhran” is, you’ll admit, a little weak. Sort of like saying he’s a “master of PHP” or “an expert at laundry folding”. There’s just not a lot there to master.
Now perhaps your man Colm has better taste than most bodhran players (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ChbigufBC8&feature=related), in which case, he’s to be congratulated. But really - “master of the bodhran”? Ouch. That’s what you call someone when they’ve really done nothing much with their life.

play video

How about a “grand master”? would that be better?

“Ladies and Genteelman!”
“Please observe a Master of his Instrument.”
“At no time does his bodhran clatter to the floor.”

Repeat 10 times

"I’m not the pheasant plucker-thumper
I’m the the pheasant plucker-thumper’s son
I’m only plucking-thumping pheasants till the pheasant plucker-and-thumper comes"

The ever-amusing Frank McNally featured a familiar ITM theme in his column in last Wednesday’s Irish Times. It’s based on a thread in Mudcat.org. For a while I thought he was referring to the mustard board:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0413/1224294553477.html

https://thesession.org/discussions/27281

Opps, sorry! I don’t attend to the mustard as often as I should these days. Thanks for pointing it out llig.