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Playing Uilleann pipes in Ireland

2014-07-21 fash Leave a comment

Joe Mooney Summer School

2014-07-19 fash

UPDATE: 20230426 – Book with info

While on holiday in Ireland, Coline, Monique and i went to the Joe Mooney Summer School of Traditional Irish Music, Song & Dance.

Every July Drumshanbo plays host to the award winning Joe Mooney Summer School, a week long festival of traditional Irish music, song and dance named after the man who did so much to promote the cause of Leitrim and his beloved town. The committee continue to emulate his high ideals, endeavouring to promote Leitrim’s heritage of traditional music while handing on the best traditions of the past to future generations.

While being in Ireland from 9-27 Juli, we drove around and visited many places.

One week was reserved for attending the Summer School in Drumshanbo, Leitrim.

Coline followed the Flute Course, Monique Bodhran and I Uilleann Pipes.

I was being taught by Brain McNamara.

Internationally respected as a performer and tutor, Brian McNamara hails from a musically rich rural region (County Leitrim) of Ireland which has produced notable musicians past and present and which has been prominently associated with the preservation and performance of Irish Traditional Music.

During daytime there were lessons, and concerts in the evening.
We learned a lot!

Tunes i’ve learned from Brian are:

Gander at the Pratie Hole
Honeymoon
Kitty goes a milking
O’Sullivans March

Joe Mooney School pamphlet

Beautiful interpretation of the tune “Battle of Cnoc na ndos”

“skeletal” version of the tune

UPDATE: 20230426 – Book with info

While flipping through some books i own about piping i found this little book: “The Man & his Music” An Anthology of the writings of Breandan Breathnach. ISBN: 09509743

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Music, Pipes / Folk / Instruments

Nae Bother – Struinen in de tuinen

2014-06-22 fash

“Strolling in the Gardens” is the garden festival, in which gardens are transformed into a temporary open-air theater with a very intimate character.

Our folkband played today in a beautiful garden of a nice couple in Amersfoort.

Engine Room

La Serenissima

Pumkins Fancy and the High Drive

Hobby

Wall decoration from wood and wool

2014-06-15 fash Leave a comment

Cut some different pieces of wood and paint these.

Cut the text in lines, and divide the lines over the surface.

Put a little nail over the outlines of the letters, and use some wool to connect all nails.

Computer, Music

Portable Squeeze Server

2014-04-10 fash

Update : https://www.henriaanstoot.nl/2022/05/26/portable-logitech-media-server-again/

Below is a picture of my mobile LMS server i used in my car.
I only had radio and a CD player, i’m not a radio man .. folk, pipes and audiobooks

At the time i was working for Dutch Railways, imagine me walking with this blinky leds thingy, though the railway station …

It consisted of a dual port usb charger, a usb hub to power the drive, the rpi wasn’t strong enough. Thumbdrives where small in capacity, so i had to use a spinning disk harddrive.
It was only a raspberry 1, in a case i had designed and lasercutted at Fablab Utrecht.

Now you can get rid of the Usb hub and harddrive using a small but with large capacity sdcards.

I could charge the thing in my car, and when i got home, it would connect to my home wifi network, sync-ed my MP3’s and turn off.

Art, Brewing / Fermenting / Booze

Schematic drawing beer brewing

2014-03-14 fash

Made a drawing about the steps involved brewing beer. Made this after following a workshop beer brewing at t’wort wat

Just to have a follow-along sheet .. so i dont forget a step.

UPDATE : Used this to teach others about brewing later on.
For friends, family or colleagues.
See post about NA Brew and BBQ day

Music, Pipes / Folk / Instruments

Passing places and The Road East.

2014-03-06 fash Leave a comment

Did a simple recording on one of our practice sessions.

Two tunes by Fred Morrison.

Fred Morrison was born and raised near Glasgow, but it’s the celebrated Gaelic piping tradition of his father’s native South Uist, in the outer Hebrides, that forms the bedrock of his intensely expressive, uniquely adventurous style.

We’ve been to South Uist in 2022, there are many passing places in the North and on the Isles.
But the tune Passing Places was writting because Fred was commisioned to produce a soundtrack for a film/documentary about the Hebrides.
The tune “The Road East” was written on a car journey from Glasgow to Edinburgh.