Dear Friends, Thanks to those of you who came out to the Guilderland Library yesterday to support us and fight for chairs with the elderly...we had a great time. A friend of ours even hosted an after-party for us! So, our elbows are warmed up, but our fingers are tired! Anyone want to come out to Old Songs and play some tunes? This Wednesday, March 12, 7:30 PM at the Old Songs Community Arts Center, 37 South Main, Voorheesville!
Here's our list of session sets. We'll go through them first at a nice, reasonable pace: The Mountain Road (DMaj) Swinging on a Gate (GMaj) Merry Blacksmith (DMaj) (Reels)
Tobins (D) Morrison's Jig (Emin) Kesh Jig (G) Brendan Tonra's (D) (Jigs)
Father Kelly's (G) Speed the Plough (D) (Reels)
Swallowtail Jig (Emin) Gallagher's Frolics (Emin) Mist Covered Mountain (Amin) Kesh Jig Father O'Flynn's Blackthorn Stick (G) (Jigs)
Banshee (G) Silver Spear (D) Cooley's Reel (Emin) Come West Along the Road (G) (Reels)
Her Long Golden Hair Flowing Down Her Back (Amin) (slow tune)
Inisheer (G) (waltz)
The Peacock's Feather hornpipes (Dmin & G?)
We'll start the evening off with those, and then move to some other stuff -- maybe some new sets. We had some suggestions, and I just have to get a second to look them over and work them up. Elaine, if you come, would you bring sheet music for your tune?
See you all very soon!
The Trad
3.11.2008
3.10.2008
Spring?
Friends, I want to share a wonderful essay I received a few days ago from my friend Marjorie on the East Coast. It moved me to think about the world around us, and how we move in concert with nature whether we realize it or not. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did...
Silver Lake continues to reveal itself so charmingly, year after year, in all the different seasons.
This year the ice has stayed the entire season. Not necessarily safe to walk or skate on, but very little open water. That has been unusual.
The swans have taken to sitting in the middle of the ice, sometimes quite still, which has alarmed several of us in the past, fearing that the birds were somehow frozen into the ice and unable to move. But yesterday the swans were rather restless. Clearly not stuck to the ice.They sat for a while, but kept shifting, adjusting themselves, but with no particular goal evident. Just sitting.
But when I next saw them, a short time later, there were two swans, both walking on the ice, but with totally diffferent demeanors about them. The lead swan was strutting along, head held high, clearly the more experienced of the two. The second swan had his (or her) head tucked down, wings bent down almost dragging along the ice, as if to help her balance with each uncertain step she took. And with each step the swan's feet slid, looking like it were her first time on ice skates. She did not look happy.
Then, something happened. The first swan started running, and after came the less confident swan (unhappily) running as well. I could hear their feet slapping on the ice. Then they were airborne, and gently honking. They lifted up slowly, headed around the island, circled, and when they came back past me they were much higher, still gently honking, soared over the trees and out of the neighborhood. There is another pond nearby that I've heard they spend time at here in town. Clearly they had decided it was time for a change. Or at least one of them had decided this, and the other...well, sometimes change comes, whether one is ready or not. Whether with confident grace or slipping and sliding, it's going to happen. And if one is lucky, you might even end up flying.
Looking forward to spring!
Love, Marjorie
Thanks, Marjorie! And guess what, all? I saw an eagle today in my neighborhood! It was high up in a tree, looking down into the field and the creek below. I've seen eagles flying over the Hudson River plenty of times, but never up in cow country -- my neck of the woods.
Keep your chin up! Spring is almost here, and you never know what you'll see!
The Trad
Silver Lake continues to reveal itself so charmingly, year after year, in all the different seasons.
This year the ice has stayed the entire season. Not necessarily safe to walk or skate on, but very little open water. That has been unusual.
The swans have taken to sitting in the middle of the ice, sometimes quite still, which has alarmed several of us in the past, fearing that the birds were somehow frozen into the ice and unable to move. But yesterday the swans were rather restless. Clearly not stuck to the ice.They sat for a while, but kept shifting, adjusting themselves, but with no particular goal evident. Just sitting.
But when I next saw them, a short time later, there were two swans, both walking on the ice, but with totally diffferent demeanors about them. The lead swan was strutting along, head held high, clearly the more experienced of the two. The second swan had his (or her) head tucked down, wings bent down almost dragging along the ice, as if to help her balance with each uncertain step she took. And with each step the swan's feet slid, looking like it were her first time on ice skates. She did not look happy.
Then, something happened. The first swan started running, and after came the less confident swan (unhappily) running as well. I could hear their feet slapping on the ice. Then they were airborne, and gently honking. They lifted up slowly, headed around the island, circled, and when they came back past me they were much higher, still gently honking, soared over the trees and out of the neighborhood. There is another pond nearby that I've heard they spend time at here in town. Clearly they had decided it was time for a change. Or at least one of them had decided this, and the other...well, sometimes change comes, whether one is ready or not. Whether with confident grace or slipping and sliding, it's going to happen. And if one is lucky, you might even end up flying.
Looking forward to spring!
Love, Marjorie
Thanks, Marjorie! And guess what, all? I saw an eagle today in my neighborhood! It was high up in a tree, looking down into the field and the creek below. I've seen eagles flying over the Hudson River plenty of times, but never up in cow country -- my neck of the woods.
Keep your chin up! Spring is almost here, and you never know what you'll see!
The Trad
3.06.2008
Keep your hands where I can see them!
Yeah, this whole blogging thing is fun and all, but what's really cool? Reading other people's blogs. In case you can't tell by the way I look, I like two things: music....and food. Anyway, while Trusty is working away at some tune or other, I guility (and voraciously) read food blogs.
I just found one that I'm in love with: The Wednesday Chef. Also 52 Cupcakes (http://52cupcakes.blogspot.com/) ...and Bee boppin' the Boroughs (http://beeboppinnyc.blogspot.com/)! Beebopp has a craft blog, too, but I can't find the link.
Wednesday is fabu for his way of thinking, and his really great view of food in the world! 52 is the Queen of Cupcakes (she bakes a different kind every week, and blogs about it). Yeah. I have one muffin recipe I make for Trusty. He takes them to work. Therein lieth his devotion to me. Until Dunkin' Donuts has their pumpkin muffins, and then I'm on my own for a month. Beebopp is who I wanted to be at 22, and wasn't.
I did spend the last year of school (I stayed an extra year to get an extra bit of a degree at Uni) wandering the far-flung parks and fields of greater Buffalo. I used to wander from my apartment near UB's south campus across town to Buff State and the Albright-Knox Art Museum. I found a lot of little shops, hole-in-wall coffee places, took photographs, hung out with ducks in parks. Ah, the sweet freedom of spending an entire Saturday (and sometimes Sunday) just wandering the city with noone waiting for me to be responsible for any-damn-thing-at-all! It's too bad blogs didn't exist back then. I really should've written about it for the Generation. But that would have been an organized and forward-thinking thing to do. Didn't have that in my repertoire back then.
As for music blogs, I'm loathe to recommend very many, because they're all like mine. Self-absorbed, self-indulgent, and sort of pedantic in some cases. I did just discover David Byrne's blog, though, and it's bright, insightful, funny, and very aware of more than just music in the world: http://journal.davidbyrne.com/. Check it out. This man is smart! Best show I ever saw, by the way, was David Byrne (just slightly pre-Rei Momo, I think) at Massey Hall in Toronto. The band hit the stage running, and Byrne salsa-ed, merengue-ed, and latin pop-ed himself all over the damn stage like a crazyman! And the horn section.....yeaaaahhhhhhh..... Ahem. Anyway...
While it's unlikely that I'm going to run off and start playing all kinds of other music, I'm finding it very refreshing to stop, look and listen around me at art, crafts, music, literature, food...you know...the cool stuff we're doing with our own two hands!
I think I'll go bake cupcakes....
The Trad
I just found one that I'm in love with: The Wednesday Chef. Also 52 Cupcakes (http://52cupcakes.blogspot.com/) ...and Bee boppin' the Boroughs (http://beeboppinnyc.blogspot.com/)! Beebopp has a craft blog, too, but I can't find the link.
Wednesday is fabu for his way of thinking, and his really great view of food in the world! 52 is the Queen of Cupcakes (she bakes a different kind every week, and blogs about it). Yeah. I have one muffin recipe I make for Trusty. He takes them to work. Therein lieth his devotion to me. Until Dunkin' Donuts has their pumpkin muffins, and then I'm on my own for a month. Beebopp is who I wanted to be at 22, and wasn't.
I did spend the last year of school (I stayed an extra year to get an extra bit of a degree at Uni) wandering the far-flung parks and fields of greater Buffalo. I used to wander from my apartment near UB's south campus across town to Buff State and the Albright-Knox Art Museum. I found a lot of little shops, hole-in-wall coffee places, took photographs, hung out with ducks in parks. Ah, the sweet freedom of spending an entire Saturday (and sometimes Sunday) just wandering the city with noone waiting for me to be responsible for any-damn-thing-at-all! It's too bad blogs didn't exist back then. I really should've written about it for the Generation. But that would have been an organized and forward-thinking thing to do. Didn't have that in my repertoire back then.
As for music blogs, I'm loathe to recommend very many, because they're all like mine. Self-absorbed, self-indulgent, and sort of pedantic in some cases. I did just discover David Byrne's blog, though, and it's bright, insightful, funny, and very aware of more than just music in the world: http://journal.davidbyrne.com/. Check it out. This man is smart! Best show I ever saw, by the way, was David Byrne (just slightly pre-Rei Momo, I think) at Massey Hall in Toronto. The band hit the stage running, and Byrne salsa-ed, merengue-ed, and latin pop-ed himself all over the damn stage like a crazyman! And the horn section.....yeaaaahhhhhhh..... Ahem. Anyway...
While it's unlikely that I'm going to run off and start playing all kinds of other music, I'm finding it very refreshing to stop, look and listen around me at art, crafts, music, literature, food...you know...the cool stuff we're doing with our own two hands!
I think I'll go bake cupcakes....
The Trad
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