For the record, if you think it's relevant in the context of the thread, the incident you refer to, Dick was from a locally eminent uillean piper from Skibbereen. I was playing a pub in Baltimore & played a lovely version of 'St Patrick's Day' I'd heard on Radio Kerry, played by 'King of the Pipers' Leo Rowsome.

The piper said I had it wrong(!) so I pointed out the source- no response except to say 'well you're an entertainer, not a traditional musician. Now I've never claimed to be either, nor have I reached the dizzy heights of BD, but surely I can be both, as can she?

As for Liz & Maggie- I remember them well, and STILL listen with pleasure to the totally unselfconscious delivery of their songs, collected a few years ago on a posthumous double CD- great girls & always tolerant & sociable- by the way, in the mid 60s there really wasn't much music going on- a fiddle was a rarity-- plenty of singing but I never heard much music in the Forrest Hill Bar as was- lovely veggie restaurant across the road as though- quite a revelation to a bunch of 'meat & two veg' Geordie lads