I think Irish traditional music must wear you out more than other kinds. Our Irish session seems to suffer from various maladies and afflictions and rarely manages to get into full fling for more than 2 hours. It's more like 90 minutes most nights. On the other hand the mixed lumpy always goes on for at least 2 and a half hours, often three and only packs up because the landlord wants to go to bed! (and some of us have to go to work the next day :-( I envy those who took early retirement) .
On the Irish scene, there was a concert at the weekend organised by the redoubtable Beau of Kent Folk and featuring Tommy Peoples. On the Mixed Lumpy scene we are still blessed with Ralphie now he's retired and this week saw the welcome appearance of Bob Kenward who was pursuaded into song. Among his songs were Great Navy Days and the Pantomime which is in the Fred Wedlock tradition (and hilarious) if you haven't heard it.
Today promises one of the garden party events of the Summer (weather permitting) and at the end of the month is the famous Reculver BBQ. No weekend sessions at the moment but the normal weekly ones are still going.
We haven't seen Jez for a long time - if you're still out there, come and play some tunes!
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