23/007 Irish Music in Northern Greece

9^th July 2023. Our depleted numbers assembled to celebrate the Dubliner’s 8^th birthday. It’s amazing what Ken, the owner, has come through from bureaucratic tribulations to Covid. Yet the bar is still there. Our April/May/June playlist did an additional month’s service, but I have finally given it a rest. A couple of days after the session, I issued the September/October playlist.

What does the immediate future hold? Such is the heat that no-one wants to sweat their way through a practice. August will be a fallow month, but something is afoot in early September in Lost Angeles, one of our bandmate’s deliberate mistranslation of Αγγελοχώρι.

That’s about it for the summer hiatus. I will leave you with two hornpipes that I want to add to our repertoire. The second is the well-known Fisher’s Hornpipe, while the first is called the Sportsman’s Hornpipe, a more gently paced piece in the Dorian mode which should segue nicely into the more upbeat Fisher’s.

It’s great to see young musicians keeping the music alive. Josh Turner has a great thing going with people his own age. They can play all sorts of musical genres. Their version of Stuck in the Middle is better than the original. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T3B502Ut94