[MusicFriends] Batavia / Binghamton Tradtional Irish Music Sessions in Feb.

[Howard Blumenthal]

BATAVIA, NY FEB 4
What: Fin-Wyn Gathering
Where: O'Lacy's Pub, 5 School St. Batavia.
When: 3pm- ?, Saturday, Feb. 4th

The Imbolc 2006 Gathering of the Fin-Wyn Session is slated for  
Saturday after next, February 4th, starting at 3pm. We'll be cooking  
up the perfect elixir for the February blahs- jigs and reels played  
with wild abandon.

Be part of the energy! Spread the word!

MORE INFO
Mark Warford
warford at adelphia.net

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BINGHAMTON, NY FEB 16
Binghamton Traditional Irish Music Open Session
Thursday, February 16th at 7PM
Ancient Order of Hibernians Club
148 Main St, Binghamton NY.
The session usually starts around 7ish and proceeds until 10:00 to  
10:30pm. ( Sometimes we go later if we are having fun and if there is  
a crowd.)

Once a month, we hold an open all Irish music traditional session at  
the AOH hall.  It is hosted by vocalist and multi- instrumentalist  
Anna Lisa Quinn.  Ms. Quinn usually brings her celtic harp and  
hammered dulcimer to the session.  Session regulars are concertina  
player Scott Craver, Jim & Jean Haggerty on Penny Whistle and  
Concertina, and depending on who attends, we may be graced with the  
musical talents of some fine fiddlers.  The session is a mix of  
instrumental traditional irish and there are also vocal songs done in  
gaelic and english.  Due to the availablility of other sessions in  
the Binghamton area on other nights of the week where old time and  
blue grass are featured, at the Binghamton Irish traditional session,  
the session content of this particular session is exclusively 100%  
Irish traditional.

The session is open to intermediate to advanced musicians who know  
the Irish traditional session repetoire.  We ofen have an  
enthusiastic and very informed audience at the AOH hall.  When the  
music is inspiring, every so often at the AOH an member will be moved  
to spontaneously get up and start doing traditional Irish dance.  It  
is always an honor to we traditional musicians when our music moves  
someone to get up and start dancing!  The session is suitable for  
those musicians who are comfortable playing in front of an audience.   
There is no cover charge and the AOH opens its doors to the public on  
the night of the Irish traditional session.  The AOH is very  
hospitable to the traditional musicians who come to play music at the  
open session.  For further information, please email session hostess  
Anna Lisa Quinn at: annalisaq at earthlink.net

MORE INFO: on the international Irish Session website:   
www.sessioneer.org (our listing is found under the session search  
function on the web page by typing in the venue name of: Binghamton  
NY Traditional Irish Session)

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