The Wednesday session was sadly depleted because of a mass pilgrimage to Ennis, our spititual home (after Skibbereen of course). From an unpromising start of 2, we had a surprise visit from a very good fiddle player from Slovakia, name Susannah. Apparently Irish sessions are popular in Slovakia - just shows, you can find an Irish session anywhere in the world!
Dagnabit! I spoke too soon. Thursday saw the return of the dreaded thumper which combined with an out of tune instrument somewhere made it hard work. There is an art, is there not, to providing rhythms for tunes which are essentially for dances - reels, polkas, jigs, horpipes etc. Maybe it should be compulsory for all players to experience the dances or maybe I'm just a grumpy old session player. It wouldn't do any harm though.
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Hear Hear! Players need to understand the tune as it was meant.
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