If you live long enough you see everything!

I've heard 4 bodhran players (simultaneously) play a cacaphony behind one brilliant fiddler and not one, let alone three or four, of them get the idea to stop playing.

I've seen one "potentate from the past" stop a session for 30 minutes with his departure, being purposefully awkward and slow.

I've seen well known players at sessions who seemingly came only to be asked a hundred times to take out their instruments... and who never did. What's that all about?

I've heard lesser singers insist on "matching" great singers song for song.

I've seen great players demonstrate the greatest kindness and patience with younger players.

I've seen great players poke younger players with their bows in the middle of a tune, "Slow down; you're playing too fast; you're missing the point. If you can't dance to it, it's not dance music."

I've been to a hundred mega sessions that never happened.

I sometimes wonder how people can play together at all.

All the best,
Dan