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14 Jun 04 - 05:29 AM (#1206709) Subject: A gig for Pavane From: pavane Mrs Pavane had another pub gig on Sunday, at an Irish bar near Merthyr. We took along some instruments on the off-chance that they would like some folk as well as the pop. We played a short set (15 minutes) of Welsh and Irish tunes, as well as an unaccompanied Danny Boy, and the landlord booked us to play a full set when he opens his new extension this summer. More details when we know when. |
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14 Jun 04 - 07:46 AM (#1206801) Subject: RE: A gig for Pavane From: Mr Red If he's Irish a safe bet is Danny Boy or Galway Bay - preferrably both. I heard one Black Country duo booked to an Irish wedding. They played their hearts-out to indifference till the break and one guest asked if Aunt Siobhan could do a song - she sang a couple of notso well known standards and brought the house down. They played all their four Irish songs at different speeds for the rest of the night - to applause. |
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14 Jun 04 - 10:11 AM (#1206897) Subject: RE: A gig for Pavane From: pavane The significance is that this is the FIRST time I have received a booking from someone after seeing a performance (Mrs Pavane gets this all the time) PS Danny Boy is English, of course, although the tune may have been derived from a Scottish original before being collected in Ireland. Galway Bay is not folk song, being attributed to Arthur Colahan (or is it Colohan - sources vary). But the words recorded by Bing Crosby were not quite the original version. See, for example Tain 16 |
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14 Jun 04 - 12:45 PM (#1207016) Subject: RE: A gig for Pavane From: Sarah the flute ...and I always thought it was the fields of athenry that had that effect on audiences! |
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14 Jun 04 - 04:52 PM (#1207182) Subject: RE: A gig for Pavane From: Mark Clark Congratulations, Neil. Wish I could be there to catch your performance. - Mark |
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15 Jun 04 - 02:06 AM (#1207469) Subject: RE: A gig for Pavane From: pavane Thanks Mark, I don't pretend to be any more than a Morris box squeezer though! Neil |