What are you doing on St. Patrick's Day?

[catmandu2]

Going out busking, might do a mini-tour of BART stations!

Cheers,
Jill

I admire you, Jill. If I had any motivation--and didn't have five dogs and a kid to haul around everywhere--I might take my hammered dulcimer out to busk.

Ah, to be young and footloose...

[MikeEdgerton]

What I'm NOT doing this year is playing Yee-haw music in an Irish bar. We did that last year and I'm not putting myself through that again this year.

[foldedpath]

Same as last year, just two gigs. Our trio did an early St. Patrick's private event over the weekend, then we're doing a show at a dinner theater on 17th. This year we added a singer and a guest musician on bodhran, who will also do a couple of tunes on highland bagpipes (not strictly Irish, but hey).

I hate playing Danny Boy, but it seems to be a requirement for this sort of thing. To keep myself motivated, I'm playing backup for that song on a Dobro, bottleneck style with a slide. I'm calling it the traditional "Irish Dobhron."

[fatt-dad]

We did our version of Danny Boy as a reel. Pretty close to old-time music and that's what this jam group does best - ha.

f-d

[Paul Kotapish]

Just finished a run of seven pre-St. Patrick's Day gigs with Wake the Dead, but no gigs on the 17th. I played a lot of drunken, smoky St. Patrick's Day parties and bars in my day, and I can't say I miss the opportunity this year.

That night I'll be at a training session for the local Rebuilding Together team (a nationwide project to fix up the homes of elderly homeowners on limited income).

[M.Marmot]

Ahh, Paddys Day, where people from all around the world celebrate the exploits of a Welshman who brought a Middle Eastern messianic religion to the rain sodden kingdoms of Ireland and apparently the tradition of parades on that day started in America, if that aint a truely cosmopolitan hotchpotch i dont know what is.

I've played a few Paddy's days back home in Ireland, and its not exactly convivial for the musicians, sugar-fueled kids running rampant early in the day, drunken shenanigans and general boistery later that night, multiple and insistant calls for various ballads and rebel songs, multiple and insistent calls for the Beatles!, multiple and insistent calls for songs that have already been done with the faint hopes that the musicians would stop being pestered, pints being spilled, drinkers lurching far too closely to the musicians, musicains lurching far too closely to the drinkers, instruments endangered all round, people setting purposively setting up camp beside the session to only then proceed to shout over the music... given all that its strange to think that for a better part of the last century the bars were not allowed to open on Patricks day in Ireland, it supposedly being a religious festival and all, still it looks like folks are making up for lost time now

One of the local bars here in Lyon had the bright idea to hold their Paddy's day on the Sunday just passed, i figure they know theyre assured their money on the 17 so why not, anyway it proved to be perfect conditions at times the musicians outnumbered the non-musicians, the sound was great, and folks had good fun, though the regulation pints were still spilled and somehow there were still requests from folks for some Beatles songs... i guess somethings are just inescapable

[David Surette]

Pub session, Press Room Portsmouth NH 1-6 w/ Jim De Carlo on flute and none other than Bob Abrams on button accordion (he is the luthier who makes Trilliums!). I'll be there with my Trillium cittern and 1918 F-2. Come on down for a pint (and a few choruses of Hey Jude...).

David

[M.Marmot]

(and a few choruses of Hey Jude...)

Aye, take a sad song and make it better

Ara, now i got that song stuck in my head!

[Oliver R]

Sweaty underpay'd o'irish bar gig.
Six piece band (flute, accordion, fiddle, lectric bass and drums and overdriven electric guitar).
It will be bloody awful!
I hate dragging full PA systems about especially on a school night.
I hate playing with drum kits.
I will have to play and sing the Irish rover 17 times.
Last but not least...
none of us are actually Irish.
I say this every year but NEVER EVER again...

Rant over....Pheww

[danb]

Looks like it'll be a post-paid-gigs session with my pals in london.. probably *starting* after bar time. Hmm...

[abuteague]

Mandolin and Harp duets for a 2nd grade class yesterday. We signed autographs after.

[Jill McAuley]

Thought I'd be a bit of a chancer and ask for Paddy's Day off at work, and miracle of miracles - they actually let me do it! So the tour of BART stations is definitely on! Weathers supposed to be nice on the 17th too - gift!

Cheers,
Jill

[Harrmob]

I AM playing yeehaw music in an irish pub in Jackson, MS. BUT, it's an awesome place and we love playing there. We'll throw in some "Irish sounding" songs...

[Glassweb]

Gonna paint my Lloyd Loar green...
Drink a pint... and wash it clean!

[Eddie Sheehy]

I'll be in hiding.... I hate drinking with amateurs...

[Dan Hoover]

well,i've been getting into the genealogy of my family,and i found out this past year, i'm irish!!my mothers great grandparents, on her mothers side, came from Ireland.. "i believe i'm a little bit everything"...so??what do i do??no clue..i know about the green thing..i always have beer around...and i haven't punched anybody since i was like 19?? whats a real simple irish tune i can pick up and learn over night? and what should i make for dinner? cheers

[dave]

Was Rory Delaney there ???

[Jock]

This St Patrick's day I'll be mainly taking the train to Egypt, via Inverness & Auld Reekie. In the tug of love the banjo won so the mandolin stays home this time, maybe I'll get a tune in the big smoke tonight, it's St Paddy's day all day after all.

[Jon Hall]

Our band is playing our 4th St Paddys gig at a private party this evening. Since we played 3 pre-St Paddys gigs maybe we'll get to do some post- as well.

[dave]

Sorry, the question about Rory Delaney was for M.Marmot. Happy and safe Saint Patrick's Day to all.

[Jim MacDaniel]

...Americans have always gone overboard on St. Patrick's Day - green beer, green rivers etc...

Hibernicis ipsis Hiberniores?

[Eddie Sheehy]

Go Deimhin Séamus. Na Gaill níos Gaelaí ná na Gael Féin.

[Jim MacDaniel]

lol -- I caught the drift of the second sentence, but had to consult a gaeilge-to-english dictionary for "deimhin".

[Mandolin Mick]

Sitting on the computer at the Cafe, obviously ... just learned Danny Boy on the mandolin. Also learning Old Ebenezer Scrooge by Bill Monroe; of all things today ...

[mandroid]

St Pat , who delivered the independent Irish population to the central Church of Rome .. ..
I'm taking my beer resistant Mix A down to the Local , See if anyone else shows Up with something to offer..
Play with more than play for..