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Happy St Patrick's Day 2022
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Great to see you participating in the wearing of the green Jacki !
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Jurgen, Tom, some nice tap dancing going on there. Thanks.
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Is it still St Paddy’s day through the weekend
I just had to share this …
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Hi Tom, that was delightful! I think I’ve heard this one before, thanks. I am sure they are still celebrating St Paddy’s day in all the Irish Pubs this weekend still! This reminds me in Vancouver, near where I use to work downtown in a district called “Gas Town”, there is a very popular Irish Pub called the Blarney Stone. I bet it is rocking this weekend! They filmed a scene at the Blarney Stone in Ryan Reynolds new sci-fi movie “Adam Project”.
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Hi Jung,
if GasTown is Vancouver’s “Fisherman’s wharf” i have been there with friends from Surrey.
They retired, moved to Kamloops and i have lost touch.
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Ah, How I miss goid ol Jimmy from Irish Rovers , seen them 2-3 x in concert met them twice, Jimmy was frikkin funny … loved tgeircTV show as a kid, the Leprechaun skits were a hoot andca half…..
Celtic Women are a great band , The Commitments was a great Irish band movie that featured Marie Kennedy Doyle,
Great Big Sea are cool too, as are The Rankins– , Barra McNeill, etc …
Side Fact regarding The Seekers song ” I’ll Never Find Another You/ George Girl, etc were written by Dusty Springfield ‘s older brother Tom Springfield (real name Dionyss O ‘Brien as Dusty’s real name: Mary O’Brien )
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Hi Jacki, I like listening to Celtic Women very much. The singers have great voices and the arrangements are sometimes bombastic.
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How about some „real Irish“ again? 🙂
With a freshly tapped Kilkeney or Guiness on the table.
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Say folks,
if we are referencing Celtic Woman, should we celebrate St. Andrew’s day on November 30th?
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Good idea Tom. Will you remind us, please?
PS: Oh boy. What exactly is the St. Andrew’s day? (a question from someone who lives behind the moon). I know that is one of the apostles. But then it already stops with me. You better explain the tradition to me when the time has come. Celtic music is good in any case. Then I can finally post Mull of Kentyre once.
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Jung, Thanks. Vancouver is very beautiful. And nicer weather than Seattle.
Juergen, et al
St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland. The equivalent of St Paddy.
I researched this because it seems to me that most celtic music is Scottish.
(And Celtic Woman)
Here is the Lord of celtic folk. Dougie Maclean
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Tom, Vancouver’s Fisherman’s wharf is a nice area in the heart of the city around False Creek and Granville Island and Yaletown, all places you want to visit in my fair city. Gastown is on the north side of the city facing the Burrard Inlet. Hope you get to visit Vancouver again one day.
Celtic Woman is nice Jacki, thanks for posting that beautiful video Jurgen. I wasn’t sure where Celtic fits in with Ireland, but I guess it does too. Google search is a wonderful thing:
If you describe something as Celtic, you mean that it is connected with the people and the culture of Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and some other areas such as Brittany.
My attraction to Irish and Celtic music in general was sealed by an album I bought many years ago, Oliver Shcroer “Celtic Dreams”, on a trip to the Tulip Festival in La Conner Washington State. I listened to the cassette on that trip, and I remember that beautiful Celtic music more than anything driving through the beautiful countryside. Here is a track from that album.
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Yes, Jung and Tom, the exact demarcation of individual tribes in Europe and their precise origins is often not easy and, from today’s perspective, difficult to comprehend. Here a lot has moved in the last centuries or millennia. At that time, the description of the tribes was made by the Greeks and especially by the Romans. They considered the Germanic and Gallic peoples as barbarians and many things were lumped together. As I read so, the Celts originated from the region north of the Alps, from an area between eastern France and Bohemia. Bohemia belonged to Austria in former days and is today part of the Czech Republic (at that time already with the capital Prague). The earliest reports from Greek writers about the Celts, for example from Hekataios of Milet, tell around 500 BC that Celts lived behind Marseilles.
As a linguist once put it, “A Celt is someone who speaks Celtic.” It is possible that the Scots and Irish see it differently, but because I live on the other side of the English Channel, I can live well with this description (Irish Gaelic or Scottish Gaelic, whatever). 🙂
PS: „My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose“ and „Ready for the Storm“, beautiful music, which invites you to dream.
PPS: the couple here in the video has also gone in search of the „Celts“ and finally found what they were looking for:
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Great video Jurgen, fun seeing all those “Flying Feet” move! Love to visit there to see all the beautiful green scenery and hordes of sheep on the highway.
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I just remembered this “Irish” music. The Chieftains give this Who classic a real Irish vibe.
https://youtu.be/kXwl7vzwaSwhttps://youtu.be/kXwl7vzwaSw
Wouldn’t this be nice for a Duo Session?
JP
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Hi JP, yeah this one sounds nice. The song sounds familiar, ie Who classic, and love the Irish treatment to it.
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