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Hi everyone, just a celebratory post for my first gig. It was only on a street corner at a local festival with a kind of steam-punk dance troupe (we call Morris Dancing) but it’s a big deal for me as...

This is indeed, the main consideration with slides and jigs. The difference between a jig (actually a double jig) and slide is getting pretty deep into the weeds of Irish music. You'll hear some...

I hear/see people have been concerned about my welfare during the hurricane. I weathered it just fine, in a solid building where I'd been invited by a friend - who then left town, doubting his own...

After a couple of months I have taken my OM back in my hands and tried to arrange two An Dros from France. The fingers are still a bit stiff. Hope you like it anyway :-)...

I tried to fill it out and it froze twice, but I'd gotten to the third question and realized I had no idea who any of these people were, except some vague remembrance from when I was younger and...

I’m 65. Born pretty close to the middle of what’s considered the Baby Boomer Generation. Maturing nicely, if I do say so myself. And contrary to what my wife says, I do notice things.

I’m...

It sounds like you are not freezing but instead you' re getting "lost" when you are playing with others.

You say you can play tunes to decent speed on your own but when you play with others things...

that dude who hogs the limelight is there and he drives me nuts

I don't know what to wear

I have a paper cut

I went last week and was ignored

I went last week and was asked to solo

"You must really enjoy what you're doing - everytime I looked at you, you were just smiling away."

HAH! Yeah that's what I get!

This guy. (Thumbs pointing toward me).

Yesterday, after the funeral for a friend's mother, a couple of pickin buddies and I stopped by The Chapman's Acoustic Shoppe in Springfield, MO, to look at...

I don't think I've had that much fun in the last year, much less in 3:43 minutes...


I think this will probably be my objective.


We are in the throes of retiring right now. I have felt like...

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Someone posted about this over at thesession.org and I've just spent all morning perusing it while I should've been working! It's the Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music - each tune is...

We just bought a house, and spent our first Christmas in it. Had a nice lunch gathering with a couple of friends and spent the day playing music. The house itself is our gift to each other.

My wife just finished building her 2nd guitar and decided to surprise me with it for Christmas. Stunned! Its an OM with Carpathian top, padauk back and sides. [/ATTACH]152409152410152411

I'll say. I am quite familiar with that style, since I practically grew up in it - my mother used to be a big fan of Victorian.
Later, I went on to do my own home in a much more simplistic,...

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On mandolin is Al White, a music instructor at Berea College. Al played mandolin for The Bluegrass Alliance in the 70's along with my friend, Marshall Billinglsey on bass and...

OK, well, since we're showing photos and talking about music rooms, here's a couple of photos of the front room (I'm calling it the parlor) of my 1930 Tudor house. Since we just moved in a couple of...

The males of those species often are under considerable stress when they do that. Some die in fights, from exhaustion or get eaten by their mates. You don't want any of that in a jam or session....

Hijacking cat thread with baby.

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Really sad news today of the sudden passing of one of Scotland's finest fiddlers and inspirations. Angus, you will be greatly missed by thousands.

http://www.shooglenifty.com/2016/10/angus/

I recently finished up my first instrument, and thought I'd post some pictures. It is a mandola with a 16" scale length, built to plans drawn by my friend James Curtis and with his assistance to keep...

Oh, it's definitely a barkometer

If everyone dies, it's Irish... :-)

I had never heard of Don Messer until I started trying to learn mandolin, a bit over a year ago. Since then I have really enjoyed working on many of his fiddle tunes. Today I happened upon a...