The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99726 Message #1991154
Posted By: Jeremiah McCaw
09-Mar-07 - 03:38 AM
Thread Name: St. Patrick's Day Etiquite
Subject: RE: St. Patrick's Day Etiquite
I'm taking part in 4 St Paddy's concerts over 3 weeks and looking forward to every sentimental second of it! I'm half Irish, but not born, raised or even visited Ireland. Yet when I sing "Whiskey in the Jar" a tiny hint of accent appears and it ain't deliberate. Go figure.
Off on another tangent - when driving through Oklahoma on my way to Austin several years ago a local radio station was trying to celebrate St Paddy by playing that fine old Irish ballad, "Broom o' the Cowdenknowes"! Oy vay!