Life and Death
I found out almost a month later, but it was very sad to hear of the death, at 54, of Michael O Domhnaill. He is probably my favourite musician and the one who I listen to the most. Founding member of the Bothy Band, he introduced the ever popular DADGAD guitar tuning into irish traditional music, and is often associated with the port a beule, Fionnghuala. For me, though, it is his later albums and particularly "Portland", in which his accompanying (of Kevin Burke) is second to none and the songs he sings, painfully beautiful. I highly recommend this album and his music generally to anyone who likes traditional music.
However, life must go on. It certainly seems to be the holiday season, the Fisherman's having less than the usual quota of musicians. Indeed, the word is, from the bastardiser of DADGAD guitaristry, Mr "guitar with two DADs", that holidaying in Spain is fine. Paul, asking around after some local music gigs, heard that a guy was going to be playing some guitar at a local bar. He duly turned up, as did a number of the folk he had been pestering and others clearly waiting to see something... ...and he waited....
....and waited....
...and waited....
...... and, after a while, one of the locals asked him when he was planning to start playing. As it turned out, HE was the gig!!!! (a particularly viscous form of chinese whispers methinks, but perhaps one befitting of a Campbell?!)
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