Steve the remark about harmony was not aimed at me, but at a fiddle player who had a pretty good understanding of trad music.
the fact of the mtter is that Jim is in my opinion is a more intersting player of trad tunes than this half piper, another local piper nicknamed the chanter man cum piper who adressed Jim as huge quim.
music has to be experimented with to go forward, it might not always work, but it is better to try, than to regard the music as to be played in a sterile safe unadventurous museum peice.
i do not play lovely harmonies, or harmonies on tunes , but if someone is and its working , i am not hidebound about it, furthermore its bad manners to say to the musicians to stop playing feckin harmonies.
I found that in most pub sessions in county cork over 30 years that the pub audiences preferred a mix of songs and a mix of tempo of tunes than endless reels even in a pub you have entered in to a contract to keep the customers in the pub, that means entertainment, contrast, variety. Jim Bainbridge was very good at it both entertaining and playing trad .
this particular guy is a self important hidebound opinionated backward looking player reminscent of some of the worst CCE members who has yet to grasp that music can be entertaining who plays a practice set and is not in the same class as paddy keenan or liam o flynn