Hey Snail,

well yes it's the right Alex, although I wasn't really thinking of the Trevor Arms, only went there 1 1/2 times and didn't want to play because of previous experience of other English sessions. (if people thought I was good, I could just be good at pretending to play!!)

I actualy enjoyed it a lot, and picked up a number of new tunes, but if I play them now, they'd sound a bit differnt in rhythm emphasis.

I knew that "novice for a long time" comment was gonna come back to bite me! That was just to get my point across, I meant "lack of experienced mentor" rather than 'bunch of beginners'! And I do like Mike's, Matt's and Doe's fiddle playing, but again they do not fulfill the 'expereinced mentor' role in the same way as.....
...well...
.... I've been very fortunate to have sat in, on occasion, (alas not regularly...mostly at festivals) in various Irish/Scottish sessions with the likes of Chris Stout, Aidan O'Rourke, Sam Proctor, Brendan McGlinchey, Ben Paley, Clare Mann, Alisdair White, John McCusker, Oisin Mac Diarmada....and more... where I can watch and listen and see clearly what I have to work on... something I haven't been able to do at an English session.

I'd like to come over to the Trevor again... when is it?

Al