ScratchYours’s forty-nine comments

Like language, Irish music is conservative and radical. The most annoying thing about Keegan’s essay is how profoundly he misunderstands how innovation takes time in ITM. A language will evolve over time and by the miracles of particpatory choices. more…

ITM is like language, as Keegan compares, but he messes up the metaphor. more…

I wouldn’t insult people’s playing normally, except that Keegan’s authority is fake, and his manifesto, a selfish self-justification. more…

Crap writing from a crap player. more…

Without Irish Traditional Music, Niall Keegan’s flute-playing would be ignored, because he’s a middling technician. He needs the tradition to exist, and he needs to subvert that tradition to be seen. more…

http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/the_keane_edge/felony-charge-in-irish-tradional-music-disturbance-in-chicago-92187984.html more…

Kinda paparazzi this, but at least it promotes the music: http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/the_keane_edge/billy-connolly-a-big-fan-of-irish-traditional-music-91842114.html more…

pics from the concert March 12: more…

A list of NYC sessions : more…

This is a list of seisiún and céilí around NYC. You can submit others that were ommitted unintentionally with pictures to gaelicgotham@gmail.com. more…