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Thread #163788 Message #3914779
Posted By: GUEST,keberoxu
02-Apr-18 - 07:46 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Liam Óg Ó' Flynn (1945-2018)
Subject: RE: Obit: Liam Óg Ó' Flynn (1945-2018)
just to lighten the atmosphere a little:
thanks to whoever put online
a recent interview with Martin Carthy,
who recalled the shock of his first encounter with Seamus Ennis.
Carthy walked into the premises where Ennis was making music and holding forth.
It was Carthy's first encounter with uillean pipes:
"like wrestling an octopus!"