New Irish Session CD, "Sunday At Conor's"

[Michael Reid]

Friends,

 

I'm pleased to announce the availability of "Sunday at Conor's," a CD of tunes and songs performed by the regulars at our Irish session in Boulder, Colorado.

 

I play anglo concertina on six tracks, English concertina on two, and button accordion (C#/D) on two others. Another musician plays English concertina on several tracks.

 

We recorded it in a studio to avoid the pub noise, but we did so session-style, with all of us playing together in one room (and with whisky on hand to calm the nerves). Most selections are traditional, but with the permisssion of the composers we have included recent tunes in a traditional vein by Liz Carroll, Fintan McManus, Mairead Walls, and Sean O'Driscoll.

 

The proceeds, once we pay off the studio and the CD company, will go into our scholarship fund, which provides scholarship support for musicians attending workshops, concerts, and camps for traditional music.

 

You can read more about it, listen to samples of all the tracks, and maybe even order a copy, if it strikes your fancy, at CD Baby.

 

Our session is very welcoming to visiting musicians, so if you're in the vicinity any Sunday evening, we hope you'll drop in at Conor O'Neill's in downtown Boulder.

[Jim Besser]

Friends,

 

I'm pleased to announce the availability of "Sunday at Conor's," a CD of tunes and songs performed by the regulars at our Irish session in Boulder, Colorado.

 

Highly recommended! Good tunes, clean playing but lots of the energy of a session.

 

Michael is one of those irritating people who was amazing on the EC -- his playing in a band we were in was one of the reasons I took up concertina -- and then, as if that wasn't enough, he bought an Anglo and became a whiz on that.

[Michael Reid]

Michael is one of those irritating people who was amazing on the EC -- his playing in a band we were in was one of the reasons I took up concertina -- and then, as if that wasn't enough, he bought an Anglo and became a whiz on that.

 

Thanks for the kind words, Jim.

 

I suppose I'll take "irritating" in the complimentary sense it was intended.

 

I must, however, firmly disavow whiz status on anything. I have a long way to go to get better on anglo. The recording sessions, though, did motivate me to practice a lot more.