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Thread #35370   Message #483182
Posted By: Aidan Crossey
14-Jun-01 - 07:28 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: The Tea Gardens
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Tea Gardens
Wow ...

You see for someone living in London, UK ... originally from Derrymacash, County Armagh, Ireland ... this level of local detail is amazing. I am particularly interested in the link that musicians establish between their music and their sense of place. I am very conscious that when I compose tunes, there is often for me some link with a particular place from my past that drives the composition and is reflected in the tune's name. (Some of my compositions have names such as "Derryadd Bay", "The Wee Lough", "Kitty Smith's Corner", "Ballinary Turn", "The Rich View", "The Head of the Plain", "Distillery Hill", etc., all of which are very local to where I was born and raised.

Anyway ... enough of my rambling. Thanks for your info and your efforts to assist!