Absolutely fantastic!

We played at O'Hurleys General Store, in Shepherdstown, WV after a pot-luck supper with half the town showing up. We put lamb, bison and venison on the spits in the Great Hall fireplace, and various soda breads, salads, and desserts aplenty. Guinness, wiskeys and wines were sampled (none green) and over thirty musicians attended, some from great distances and some from the on-going Hammered Dulcimer Fesitival in Harpers Ferry. Imagine six fiddlers, one French Horn, a cello and a dog-house bass, four guitarists, six Hammered Dulcimers, three harps, four banjos (five and four string) three mandos (one a mando cello)and seven flute/whistle/recorder players. Best of all, only one bodhran player, who knew her place.

Cloggers danced and jigged, poetry was recited, every song from the Old Orange Flute to Wearing o' the Green, O'Carolan to the Parting Glass. I ended up with a headache, two quarts of lamb stew, sore fingers, and a great tumbler of Genevieve O'Loughlins potato salad in my fridge. And it was only Thursday...