Standard as high as ever here, Jill.
Enjoy your trip home too.
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Standard as high as ever here, Jill.
Enjoy your trip home too.
Safe travels Jill. The Girouard is sounding great.
Another echo: have a good trip. I'm looking forward to your next tune [or tunes] from wherever you might send it...
No worries Jill I pm'd you yesterday with my contacts. I definitely won't be competing in mandolin, just looked up the timetable & I'm down for 7 categories at the same time with one being in a different venue or town! You can also have a tenor guitar the play around with for your stay here, would you like a fast or a slow one :-):mandosmiley:
Cheers Marty - it looks like my itinerary won't bring me near Mullingar for this visit - will be in Dingle, then up to Clare for stays in Kilkee and Feakle, looking at a few properties up in Carrick on Shannon and then heading back to Dublin via Drogheda to fly back to the States. Thanks for your generous and kind offer!
Jill, I hope you are able to share a few pictures of your journey! I have always wanted to go to Ireland if only to get some Kilkenny's Irish Cream ale, a Guinness product I think. Sadly someone told me they stopped making it. Anywho have a great trip!
Somehow managed to squeeze in time between packing to record a tune for Week 27 - a reel written by Josephine Keegan called "The Aughacashel".
Lol, if you're in Drogheda you're very welcome to come 20 mins north and record your tune of the week on my Girouard in my studio. I've even got the same nt5 microphones. :)
Nice reel and well-played. I seem to hear what might be influences [at least in the A part of the tune] in another tune that I'm familiar with called "Leather Britches". Thanks for fitting this into your busy itinerary!
Playing catch up after being away for a few weeks! Here's Week 28's tune (late), a nice Paddy O'Brien reel called "Iniscealtra":
And the tune for Week 29 is a jig called "Wallop the Pot Lid" aka "The Mouse in the Cupboard":
All caught up now! Here's Week 30's tune - "The Stig Jig" by John McCartin:
No mandolin content as I decided not to bring an instrument with me, but a few pix from me trip:
Somewhere in Clare - had to pull over to take a photo it was such a lovely day, this was near the Burren (I was driving from Lisdoonvarna to Carrick on Shannon that day and did so via the Clare Circuit)
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Earlier in my trip I was picking up friends at Cork Airport and took a side trip to Mallow to visit The Donkey Sanctuary (I'm trying to open up a small farm animal sanctuary myself so was interested to see their set up)
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The Conor Pass outside of Dingle, Co. Kerry (met up with some friends from the States for a few days and took them here)
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The purpose of my trip - looking at properties! This one was in Mayo, I've made an offer on it but not sure if it'll come to anything....
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I keep playing the last two back to back they seem very very very similar to me.
Very open if we were always a bit greener here it would look very similar. Thanks for the pics!
Thanks again Jill for the motivation -your triplets. I like the accompaniment in Stig jig too. Good luck.
Lovely as always. I'll admit to wondering how and where you put your fiddly bits since I haven't known any of the tunes you've posted to compare, but I do know Wallop the Potlid so that was a comparison I could do! Play on!
Welcome back and thanks for posting the tunes!
You seem to have had a good break back in your home country, Jill.
Great tunes once again and a fine effort to catch up so quickly. I especially liked the reel!
Nice playing Jill. I do like a good mazurka and that is one of the best. On this side of the pond it is usually called the Barnacle Redowa.
Week 31's tune is a great Paddy O'Brien reel called "The Swallow's Nest":
This one sounds great as well! Did you happen to hear any on your trip you plan to use?
And still she produces the little gems! :mandosmiley: