Pipes And Concertina

[Lawrence Reeves]

I'm heading off to an informal gathering with the Southeast Piper's Club in the mountains of North Carolina this afternoon. It was a group I helped to start many years ago, and also when I was playing uilleann pipes. Looking forward to the tunes, and bringing my Bb / F along in hopes of a C session.

Next weekend will be performing in Louisiana with Joey Abarta on pipes, and John Coyne on Bouzouki. We have been playing at a festival in the south together for 3 years, and we just have a blast. So, now a second festival called the Northeast Louisiana Celtic Festival has us on stage. No fancy name, just Coyne, Reeves and Abarta. The sound of steel reeds with pipes really is something to experience. It gives me a chance to play some tunes and some phrases very staccato " closed in piping terms". It also is nice to use those implied chords of D/A, and D/G along with the source of why they are in my music. We play a fair amount from the repertoire of Willie Clancy, Tommy McCarthy, and even some Slíabh Luachra and east Clare in the mix.