What a gig!

Absolutely amazing... I loved every minute of it. Consummate musicianship, great songs and tunes and several people on stage simultaneously that I'd have paid the admission price to see on their own!

Took a friend who'd never heard of any of the performers and she was astonished that so much talent could be gathered on one stage. Julie Fowlis did her usual lovely version of "Biodh An Deoch Seo An Laimh Mo Ruin". I was particularly impressed by Michael McGoldrick's underpinning of even the most unlikely songs with his pipes, flute and long whistle but the highlight of the evening for me was Allison Moorer's fantastic version of "Carrickfergus". I had some grit in my eye while she was singing! Her baby spent a good part of the evening being held up by his "sitter" at the side of the stage, smiling and waving his arms enthusiastically.

The only slight disappointment for me was that Russ Barenberg only got one piece of his own to play, but not too worroed as I'll be seeing him solo on thursday courtesy of Mudcatter Sylvia N.

Three hours went by in a flash. Still buzzing!