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3-8-25

Saturday, March 8, 2025

  Excited to be doing a St Pats gig with a wonderful young person on pennywhistle.  He is 11 and a true wunderkind on the instrument. He's come to a couple of jam sessions and he picks up new tunes like a sponge, knows how to play variations on a theme on the fly and I can see if he keeps up with it, I think he'll be a real force professionally.  He got asked to play at some venue for St Pats and he asked me if I would accompany him. I generally don't play St Pats or NYE, being amateur hour for drinkers, but I want to see and help this boy with stage work; I think its his first paying geg in front of an audience.  

  If it works out well, I might even consider asking him to join the pirate band.  He's young but my own sons started with it at 11 and 13.  I briefly talked with his Dad about this, but I think the fact that we are away usually Sat and Sun (and sometime Fri and Mon) and he sees pirates in general as a less savory group of individuals may be issues.  But I told his Dad the money is like real $$$ (I put my boys thru college on pirate money),  we will challenge him musically and it'll be real experience for him to see if he wants to play pro or semi-pro. 

 

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Playing Since: 1972
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Gender: Male
Age: 72

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Fiddle, guitar ( accous, elec and 12 string), mandolin, bass, viola, cello, concertina, saxophone, piano and now Scottish smallpipes.

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Started on bass at 14, 12 string guitar at 17, fiddle at 19, and picked up everything else in the interim. Will be 71 come Feb, ?

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