This person called Dave still finds it difficult to agree with the Countess (Child 68 versions I have seen do not name a Countess by BTW - yes I know what the wife of an Earl is called)

You are currently hooked on the phrase "The best thing to be seen at a music venue is musicians of whatever gender playing excellently"

Last night on my home from work I dropped in to have a peek at a music session and have a late pint.A young fiddler was playing a fast jig tune. He was playing it very well I as a non-musician would have said. But he had head down over his fiddle,his eyes shut and was totaly ignoring the other three fiddlers who it seemed to me would have liked to play along. Also I lost count of the number of times he went through what seemed to me to be the A and B parts of the tune.

This seemed to me to both disrespectful to the other muso types and to the music (how long can a dancer carry on dancing a fast jig? not eight and a half minutes I think.

Dave