Just wanted to share a very pleasant experience. We had a 60ish gentleman visiting Boston from Liverpool drop by our weekly session. He's primarily a fiddler, but was travelling with his mandolin. He was a joy to play with. He had come up through decades of sessions...didn't know the title of a single tune, but could play anything we knew and unquestionably hundreds more.
It wasn't a matter of "chops" with this guy, but a wonderful lilting, bubbling feel that he brought to every tune he played. I'd never had the chance to play with a mando player that comes purely out of the Celtic traditions and I feel I learned a lot just from listening to the bounce he put into the music.
I never even took my Breedlove out of the case and stayed on the 'zouk all night. It was a real treat.
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