The decription is exact , so is describing flute playing as " blowing at
one end while wigling your fingers on the
midle of the instrument " would you like such a description of a prostate
exam ?
Dancers come in various sizes, color and backgrounds .
Some , like the scottish dancers and dancers of bulgarian dances (
seldom Bulgarians themselves )
do prefer canned music ( some scottish dance groups have "their " piper ,
who plays " just like the CD . )
So do the ladies who do irish dances ( irish men do not dance , it
breaks their drinking schedule )
At the other end of the spectrum , many dancers from french background
dance freely
on anything , Québecers do not even care for measures , dancing on the
beat only .
Lucky us who do not have to play bulgarian music on our HG.
Original Message:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:31:16 -0400
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HG] was Celticness and Arts funding NOW: Last one, I
promise, I'm fixin to shut down and go to bed.
Gosh, Roy, it sounds like you frequent the Irish sessiuns up here...
same shtuff, different pub...First Tune 3 X and out! Second Tune 3 X and
Out! And "No, you DON'T get a chance to pick the tune set, even if you
are sitting next in line in the circle. We don't KNOW you, you may do
something DIFFERENT, and we don't LIKE different!"
And dancers that prefer to dance ONLY to their CDs, because they can't
handle any little variation...
Sheesh! You'd think that their feet would automatically just "go with the
flow" (a la REAL folk dancing) - rather than predictable rote
movements...
Okay, I step down offa my soapbox now...
michele
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:36:54 -0700 (PDT) Roy Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> 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
>
>
>
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