reedy grins’s eighty-nine comments

The Monday night session has got back on track somewhat, smaller and a bit more focussed (thanks, Jimmy). Starting time of 9:30 p.m. more…

What a shame. more…

Matt Cranitch and Jackie Daly have this on their recording “The Living Stream”, which credits the slide version of this tune to Mr. Daly himself. more…

This session has evolved into something more closely resembling a Celtic hoedown than an Irish trad session. I don’t attend anymore. more…

New version of the abc, February 2012, courtesy of ceolachan. Thanks more…

Thanks ‘c’, once again. I wish I had more time to dedicate to learning how to do abc properly, but the list of tunes to learn just keeps getting longer so other amusements tend to get shoved aside. Cheers more…

Finally got around to remedying some of the screw-ups here. It is now posted as a reel, but to know how it should go, you would probably need to know something about how reels are played in Shetland. Hope this is an improvement more…

Okay, Dragut. I didn’t mean to sound pedantic. Whatever. As an aside, I would just like to thank you for the great music that you have posted on your blog. It is now one of my main sources. As for hop jigs / slip jigs, I have to admit my ignorance. more…

Coleman’s Hop Jig, also called The Promenade by some. Not a slide or single jig. This is one great tune, but I am so thrown by the A part that I can’t learn it, although the B part is perfectly clear. more…

Na Fir Bolg more…