It might be very recent. Doolin was also surrounded by brand new
unoccupied homes and the first pub (where I jammed years ago) has been
incorporated into a new block long hotel/restaurant/tourist center. I
think they started the demise and the two other pubs had to change
tact to keep up. "It's all about economics" someone told me. In Galway
I met up with a luthier who directed me to The Strand where jamming
still went on. He named three other jamming pubs that now "present"
rather than "host".
Dan
On Aug 24, 2008, at 7:08 PM, Gil Skillman wrote:
Really? I was in Doolin three years ago in July, armed with my
trusty cuatro, and I sat in and jammed with local musicians in one
of the three pubs and heard jamming locals in another one of the
three.
Also jammed with some locals at a pub in Dublin, but it wasn't Irish
music, more like pop stuff. So from my experience, if the jamming's
gone away, its just been in the last three years. And that would be
a shame.
Gil
Oh yeah... There's not so much jamming in the pubs any more. The town
of Doolin, for example, in County Clare has a long standing
reputation
as a mecca for musicians to come and jam from all over the world.
Three pubs, music all the time. That was 1991. Today, there is not
jamming, only professional performances, although locals tell me that
the jams come back in the winter when the tourists are gone. They
call
it "progress", but with cynicism. It's economics. Same in Dingle and
Dublin, except on the streets. There are still jams, just hard to
find.
Dan
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