Sorry to change the direction of this thread slightly, Jill was commenting that there are a number of good tenor banjo players from Manchester, and in my last post I mentioned Brendan Dempsey but couldn't find any clips of him. I was just chatting to him and mentioned this, and he sent me this clip, which isn't great quality (a phone at a session), but was at a local session when it was my birthday a few years ago. Another pal who came along is the great 5 string banjo player Jonny Hulme who can pick a handful of Irish tunes and played a set with Brendan in this video. This does mean that we can't hear Brendan that well, but this may be of interest to banjo fans generally.
The lady that is sat next to me in this clip is Grace Kelly who is a mainstay of the Irish scene in Manchester and runs my local session. She is a great whistle and fiddle player and singer and also a mate of Angelina Carberry, here she is playing whistle at Angelina's performance at the Ceoltóir na Bliana 2021. She composed the first tune.
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