Whelan Master Sessions -- starting Saturday, Nov. 7

I’m excited to be helping John Whelan organize his upcoming series of online master sessions -- an opportunity to play along with, listen to, and chat live with phenomenal Irish musicians, even if the pandemic has (temporarily) stopped them from touring to share their music in person.

I created an event for the first session, featuring Kevin Crawford and Haley Richardson -- it’s taking place this Saturday, Nov. 7, at 2pm Pacific/5pm Eastern/10pm Irish time. Details here: https://thesession.org/events/7949

I hope it’s all right to put this here, too, as a heads up that there are more of these coming down the line. There are two more sessions already confirmed (Patrick Mangan and Cillian Vallely on Nov. 14th, and Joanie Madden and Mirella Murray on Nov. 21st), and I’ll post events for those as soon as the artist bios are ready.

Your ‘Irish time’ reference reminded one of the recently revived thread on ‘the British Isles’. Surely ‘Irish’ time is GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)!

So, Irish time?
Murphy asked his friend Miguel what ‘mañana’ meant and when he explained Murphy scratched his head and said ‘I don’t think we have anything with that sense of urgency in the Irish’

Oh dear. Points well taken, both. But since I can’t edit the original post or the description of the event, it’ll just have to stand as-is.

We do say ‘Eastern Time’ instead of ‘East Time,’ anyway, so maybe I get a few points for saying ‘Irish time’ instead of ‘Ireland time’ -- parallel construction and all that. And either flows better than saying ‘5pm GMT -5, 10pm GMT’..

In my experience, 10pm Irish time means that the musicians filter in around half ten and the music actually starts at 10:45.