JigTime

So today I finally got Paul Rodden on the phone and what a fun show it was. I enjoyed this one more than any of the other. We talked a lot of nonsense of course as we have done for many years but we did manage to throw in some talk about music and the [...]

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Over many years, especially it seemed on cold wintry nights, we would play a regular Wednesday session in O’Flahertys Bar on Buncrana’s main street. The musicians changed from week to week. Sometimes it would be just Paul Rodden and I, occasionally Dinny McLaughlin, Michael Gallanagh or one of the younger local players like Ciaran Tourish.
At [...]

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Or as Samuel Beckett may have written “Waiting for Rodot” On the last two live video-casts I tried to make an impromptu call to the banjo master himself. Paul can be tricky to get hold of at certain times of the day, mainly when the sun is out. He really is a night person.
Many years [...]

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I have been rather busy recently trying to earn some money from real world projects and of course helping Lupa with her tarot site. That has been a lot of fun as it really stretches what we can do with very little equipment and some fun easy coding.
But a lot of our excitement now [...]

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I know I know. I promised you an audio podcast would be out at the weekend. Well I was being very optimistic  as it turned out. What with a house full of kids, four dogs, an idiotic cat and half the neighbourhood coming in and out all the time, I just didn’t find a moment [...]

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