Articles tagged ‘Traditional music’
Shack Session
By Seán | March 14th, 2007 |
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I was feckin exhausted this Tuesday. Seriously. I was yawning through the visit with wifey in the hospital and was ready to keel over once I got in the house. Lil sis kipped out on the couch and all I could think was . . . it’s Tuesday. After the week I’d had, I felt [...]
The Shack Session, Athlone
By Seán | February 7th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It was a quiet place this last Tuesday in the Shack.
I mean, outside in the car park.
Inside, however, the music was rolling right along from the knot of musicians inside the door. Ze Germanz and I showed up around 9.30pm to find a serious group of folks well into their tuesday sessions. The Sherrif, the [...]
Brideswell Session
By Seán | January 26th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Sometimes it’s good to get out. With all the disheartening talk about rural pubs closing, I was even more appreciative of my evening yesterday in Brideswell.
Ze germanz and I headed out through the backroads. It feels almost epic, breezing past the hedgerows in the dark, setting dogs to barking in our wake - the drive [...]
Sean’s Sunday Session
By Seán | January 16th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
This Sunday in Seans saw its Amber Moon musical core augmented by loads of additional heads, including some of the Brideswell crew. Guitars, bass, flute, uillean pipes, accordian and singers kept the place humming from early afternoon into the evening. It’s good to see because, for the first time I’ve heard of, Sean’s Bar [...]
Shack Session
By Seán | December 13th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
A lull in the storm hit us on Tuesday night and Angel, the bean and I made our weary way across the town toward the Shack. Upon entering, we found the place all decked out for Christmas. Somewhere among all the odds and ends dangling from every imagineable corner, beam and hook the people at [...]
Sean’s Saturday Session
By Seán | November 5th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
This Saturday evening, the popular traditional music session in Sean’s Bar was again in full swing. Flutes, guitars, fiddles, banjo, bodhran, mandolin and voice were busy making a joyful noise in the oldest pub in europe. Here we’ve got a lovely selection from the evening’s performances: click to listen.
Brideswell Session
By Seán | September 29th, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Last night was the fabulous Brideswell traditional Irish music session. This session is, quite possibly, the best traditional session in the midlands.
I almost didn’t go, but then I reflected that it had been some weeks since I last attended. It was a wet drive out under the overhanging trees to Brideswell. The village of [...]
Ginger Craíc
By Seán | September 13th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Well, last night was the Shack session. Oh, the pints and tunes and mayhem.
We’ve been running the “modern” session out in the Shack on tuesdays for the last year when it moved from Sundays, where it had been ongoing for at least a year before that. I sensed that the evening was going to be [...]
