--- Simon Wascher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > maybe I am a bit of a windmill fighter. Well, maybe you are. I have had " You're Scottish/Irish and don't ever forget it." rammed down my throat all my life. Irish sessions are boring with dragging out the same 30 tunes every time and we have to play the version that whoever knows. Scottish don't seem to have sessions and we always have to stop when pipers or dancers show up. OK so the pipers play in Bb all the time, can't you? No you can't because it's disrespectful or something and the dancers only dance to CDs. I want to make an animated movie of Scots dance and play it at my shows and then when they offer REAL dancers tell them I'm not sure they'd do it right... Rant over. The point is that " Les musiques du paysage" and particularly la vielle is MY ESCAPE". Reading about Celtic Nations is enough to put Mr. Narcolepsy over here asleep. The possibility of seeing Gille and Patrick playing together again is motivation enough to think that 30 hours (round trip) in the car alone is worthwhile. Alone because nobody around here knows or cares about them. ( Well it could have to do with my abrasive personality, but I can't take ALL the credit.) Those people (reading the paper) don't know ( or care) who they are. Hopefully they will show up expecting oatmeal and leave knowing they had prime rib. Roy, again P.S. Well, I thought the rant was over, but I guess not. Didn't they coin the word Celtic to describe the artifacts of some ancient salt-miners. Didn't someone in Germany decide it was Keltic and everybody in the NW archipelago jump on that? ( I had Kelery for lunch.) weren't they all overrun by Romans or Vikings, or somebody
