JigTime

So the rain has abated a little but it was here for a long time and it was lovely. We don’t get much rain in Georgia, certainly not enough in the past few years. So this was both beneficial to everyone here but also reminded me of home. Today I had some great music from [...]

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You know, even though I was brought up with traditional Irish music, like many I moved away from it for periods of time. Even with the bands that had traditional roots there was always a departure from pure Irish music. The Pyros were the band equivalent of a rebellious teen opting to add other forms [...]

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……but there will be a live show tomorrow (Friday 21st – at 10am) And I will also be recording my audio podcast tomorow so you will have it in your iPods for the weekend. But later today I will be writing about my own musical past. I was inspired to write a little about it [...]

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Of course if you didn’t catch today’s live show then you missed one of the great highlights of the year. I can safely say that now because my Ustream recording somehow disappeared even after I had saved it. So unless you were on of the 5 millions viewers you can’t tell me it otherwise. In [...]

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So it was a busy day here in the house as I tried to put the show together. I was surrounded by 4 dogs, a cat and two 5 year old boys. So it was all rough and ready but the music was good. We had music from Conal O’Cane, Liz Doherty. Planxty, The Bothy [...]

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