WC...
time to support the World Cup... ;-))
I amuse you?
"but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you?"
- Tommy DeVito (Goodfellas)
- Tommy DeVito (Goodfellas)
everyone's a critic...
My "musical advisors" after watching me play one of my new compositions... ;-))
Rest in peace...
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou (1928-2014)
new bits...
Hi Folks -- I received a rake of kind messages, emails, phone calls, and home visits asking how I am progressing with my new addition during the last two weeks post-surgery --- unlike this very funny cartoon which several of…Read more
new tunes...
There is a lot of new music being written within the tradition -- for some of the tunes, I wish I had a few extra appendages to get all the notes - time to evolve... ;-))
St. Peter and the Kerry man...
St. Peter: Before you enter Heaven my son, is there anything you'd like to know?
The recently departed Kerry fella:
Well, there is one thing -- can you ask St. Paul if the Corinthians ever got back to him?…. :-))
lovely artwork of me playing accordion...
Jimmy Keane playing the accordion
Artwork by: Sara de la Barre
so that's the difference...
Finally figured out the difference between a 4-string and a 5-string banjo:
bohola on Concert Window!!
bohola
15th Anniversary Special Performance!
8PM (CST)
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Live on Concert Window!
http://www.concertwindow.com/shows/4984-bohola
Hi Folks!
Hope you are all well and thanks for taking time to read this. Many of you have sent us requests asking…
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Mick Moloney...
In April 2014, Mick Moloney will receive the 2014 Gradam Ceoil Special Contribution Award. Tony Lawless, founder and editor of TradConnect.com asked me to write a short paragraph or two on the impact Mick has had on Irish Music here…Read more
Phil Durkin...
Phil Durkin, one of the loveliest people of the Chicago Irish Music community, has died. Another of my musical "uncles," Phil gave me my first copy of the tune-only O'Neill's 1001 (The Dance Music of Ireland) which I still cherish…Read more
Happy Birthday Dad...
Happy Birthday to my Dad, Jimmy "Horse" Keane! Still hard to fathom that it has been twenty-five years -- but you remain alive in my music and in my thoughts and in the many conversations with people I meet here…Read more
Happy 100th!!
A hearty 100th anniversary to "Danny Boy" with lyrics by Frederic Weatherly set to the traditional tune "The Derry Air" which was originally collected by Jane Ross and submitted to music collector George Petrie and published in his 1855 "The…
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Review: Liz Carroll -- "On the Offbeat"
Liz Carroll, my lifelong friend and the most amazing musician I’ve ever known, is releasing her first solo recording in eleven years next Tuesday, November 17, 2013.
We grew up playing music together and I learned a ton about music…
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