Memorial Concert For Dympna O'sullivan

[Bruce McCaskey]

Selections from a memorial concert for Dympna O'Sullivan held in the Old Ground Hotel in Ennis as part of Consairtin on 2nd April.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p7DSsJK0PLg&feature=share

Edited April 17, 2016 by Bruce McCaskey

[Daniel Hersh]

Thanks for pointing that out - it's really nice (and very sad...)

 

It led me to another recent video posted by the same person, of the superb concertina player John Williams with Dermot Byrne and Eoin O'Neill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIzt5Z0q6aU.

[Bruce McCaskey]

Attempted to get proper capitalization in the thread title but decided it was a losing battle with the software. Apparently only one capital permitted per word.

 

I took a couple of week-long workshops with John Williams some years ago at the old Friday Harbor Irish Music Camp, nice to see him again.

 

Wish I'd had a chance to meet Dympna. Bought her first CD some years ago and really like her sound. I'd watched all the videos of her I could find and had it in mind I might someday get to a workshop she was teaching but missed that opportunity. Very sad she's passed but glad she left her music for us to remember her by.

 

Don't know if others are aware, but Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin recently posted a photo of a tune written in remembrance of Dympna and according to Gearoid, the composer Úna Grogan Ruddle has donated it "... to be shared, learned and played." In that light, I don't think I'm violating anything by posting a copy of it here.