In the wonderful world of sessions, some weeks are good and some weeks are less good - for various reasons.
Within the same week, our Irish session was badly depleted while the mixed lumpy session had a staggering 14 musicians at one point including two guests from the Czech Republic who delighted us with a rendition of Jesse James - in Czech!
No accounting for why the fortunes go the way they do - not long ago it was the Irish session which had a large influx. It just goes to show that you can never tell what is going to happen and it is worth while persevering.
Worth mentioning in passing is the Orchestre Super Moth (Tiger Moth + World Roots friends). If you get a chance to hear their CD Mothballs, do so. They have done just about everything imaginable to the Harmless English Tune - Benga, Reggae, Tango and a lot of other things as well but under it all, if you listen very carefully, you can still hear Rod Stradling playing (more or less) the sensible core tune on his melodeon.
Just shows you what dressing you can put over the tunes to liven them up.
Monday is the Tilmanstone mixed session.
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