Darth Piper’s seventy-three comments

Anyone know of this album is available in a digital format? https://www.discogs.com/Bob-Stewart-4-And-Finbar-Furey-Tomorrow-We-Part-/release/8574819 more…

The excellent tunearch.org has it as a possible O’Carolan composition. https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Paddy_O%27Rafferty_(1) more…

For my taste the subtle Denis Cahil approach is dull as. Gimme a Donal Lunny type engine room player to bring the music to life. more…

I always wondered why people don't just give these tunes new names? It's not sacrosanct that they have no name, they've just been forgotten! It's not as if tune naming is a precise science in ITM now, is it? more…

That is a shock, a life well lived. more…

F’in A! more…

Indoors, proper session? 🤟 more…

Concertinas and accordions to disappear? Not likely, sadly... more…

Wow, can’t reply to you all, but thanks for all the replies. Let’s hope we can all get back to gigs and sessions soon more…

It IS a question. As for now, well, I’d know most of the audience at a local gig and y’know, people TALK to each other. As for back in the 70s, if the historians have it right that Planxty made trad acceptable to the youth then they won’t have playe... more…