I've read the older discussions from IRTRAD regarding the history of "Irish sessions". Michael Robinson also put some of that info on his Standing Stones web site. My question is sparked by a discussion on another forum regarding the beginning of Irish sessions in the US. I relied on the info that pub sessions are relatively a new development, as noted in the IRTRAD threads, but since people did get together in their homes (not pubs) to play music both in Ireland and the US, my question is, when did people start calling this type of gathering of musicians an "Irish session"?


Alice