Trad Irish Music Across the Sea

I can so easily forget that I am in Brooklyn listening to Ceili House, RTE's Saturday evening program of traditional Irish music. Fiddle music, uilleann pipes, flutes, concertinas and harps, toes tapping. I could very easily be in the upstairs room of An Spailpin Fanach on S. Main Street in Cork City, across from the Beamish Brewery. A few Septembers ago, I was very fortunately there during the Cork Folk Festival. On one rainy Sunday afternoon, I enjoyed a "box concert" there in that tight little space...pure natural joy. Am listening to Ceili House now...fingers are flying across fiddles and I am there again. Much of the commentary is in Irish. I have to go pick up my dusty copy of Irish for Beginners and make another try at that.