DetlefS’s two hundred and forty-one comments

There is a Folk Festival in Tondern, Denmark ( www.tf.dk ) at the last weekend in August, from 25.8 - 28.8.2022. The last two years it was cancelled, but it seems this year it will happen. more…

He was Far from Home, but the Ships are sailing to his Sligo Maid. more…

The first tune is The Kesh Jig (https://thesession.org/tunes/55) and as far as i know an old traditional tune. So no known composer. more…

There is the tune search site from Reverend: more…

You need the helicopter noises to play Stockhausen. more…

The tune "Lapwing" is inspired by "The Curlew". I learned the "The Curlew" in our learner session. At home I tried to remember it and came up with the A-part. Because I liked it I wrote a B-part for it. more…

For me this sounds like a scottish waulking song, a song sung by women while waulking cloth. I don't know if there is a similar tradition in Ireland. Some songs that Julie Fowlis has in her repertoire come to my mind. But i'm not able to speak one of the... more…

I've ordered two CD's from Amazon and after klicking "Buy now" I saw, that they got send from Amazon UK. I was prepared for the worst, because i read from others, that they had to pay more tax then the cost of the CD, but they arrived without any extra pa... more…

Oisín Mac Diarmada Ar An Bhfidil : https://thesession.org/recordings/285 more…

Dave Flynn: Contemporary Traditional Irish Guitar more…