dances with swords’s fifteen comments

My father and uncle. fiddle and flute player from Kenilworth, Ontario, play this tune in a set beginning with the Daisy Field, then the Mountain Top, then the Five Mile Chase. more…

This has been mentioned in an earlier thread, but Maureen Glynn was a beautiful piano accompanist (see the Fort at Kincora with Martin Connolly), very minimal and not as percussive, a creative but very within-the-tradition sound. more…

My friend Greg is a bowmaker in Ottawa. he recently made a bow for Martin Hayes. My dad has played his bows and he can customize and weigh them wonderfully. more…

Horan and Finn was the meat and potatoes of my childhood. more…

Thi is just to add: that playing music with my dad has added the greatest closeness to our relationship: the closeness of the hardcore geekfest. more…

My dad and my uncle had been playing trad (fiddle and flute, respectively) since before I entered the world, so I was absorbed in the sounds in utero and surrounded by sessions as a toddler on up. more…

I just came back from a weekend of wild family tunes on my uncle’s back porch. My dad, uncle, coupla cousins, aunt, coupla siblings, driving away at the tunes with the rain pounding on the porch roof- gorgeous. more…

Spoons Murder: The Most Hilarious Thing Of Ever. more…

I second the recommendation of At the Racket. But I am in love with everything John Carty so perhaps this is a biassed recommendation. But, saxophone- woo! more…

I am in fact a lady who dances with swords, on an all-lady sword team. However, it was originally an all-male tradition. more…