A sporadic, sometimes periodic, and quite possibly idiotic bits of info, thoughts, and musings about music and other stuff...

blather

May 13th...

"Would you be using your spade today? To tell you the truth I'm not. 
For I lent it to you fifty-five years ago and since then I never saw it." ;-))

Myself and my Granddad Paddy Lyne taken in New

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May 2015 Newsletter...

Hi Folks!

Just a quick note to let you know of two upcoming performances this month in Chicagoland...

I will be doing a solo performance entitled "An accordion on my knee - Irish Traditional Music from Chicago" at 2PM on …Read more

Bobby Sands (March 9, 1954 - May 5, 1981)

"They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It isRead more

Lent...

For Lent I'm giving up kale, yams, beets, rhubarb, MySpace, polkas, slides, craft beer, Fox News, colonoscopy preps, texts, texting, Governor Rauner, snow, sub-zero temperatures, leg-cramps, out of tune instruments, stubbing big toe into coffee table, vinegar on chips, ketchup,…Read more

2014-2015...

For last year's words belong to last year's language

And next year's words await another voice.

And to make an end is to make a beginning...

-- T.S. Eliot

 

Chanukah

It was Chanukah and the tiny village outside Budapest in Hungary was frightened that they may not have any latkes because they had run out of flour.

Rudi, the Rabbi, was called upon to help solve the problem. He…

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