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$270?!? Maybe I'll throw in dinner at Chez White Castle. Hi Jessie! I'm going back to East Durham this year, so there's a good chance we can meet, finally. I'm not sure whether I'll have the use of a car or not yet. I'll get in touch closer to Irish Arts Week. I volunteer to baby-sit if you and Dan ...

Warning: Downer! Dale, I heard the LA Times Kenneth Turan's review on NPR this morning. (print edition here: http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/turan/cl-et-revenge16may16,0,1386671.story). He said that while yes, the story was meatier, the dialogue was unfortunately as bad as the last two, the spark...

Out of curiosity, is it "Ged" with a hard or soft 'g?' Thanks.

Cara

Bravo! You sacrificed much for us all. After reading this review, and calculating the effort it took to examine and compare a whistle as disappointing as this one, I'm going to buy you $20 worth of drinks next time I'm in town! I suggest others do the same. The funny thing is, even with smoking gun ...

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Yay! Fun to read and fun to listen to. Loved "Maids of Mitchelstown." But the midi file sounded charmingly naive-- Evil-Lite, if you will-- after spinning the new CD from the truly sinister estrogen-fuled Celtic supergroup (they keep sending them). You will have to try harder. Other than t...

My you're up late. I've been to Finland once. My sister studied piano and oboe at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. It was a wonderful experience, being there for 10 days. I loved that the currency features great artists, composers, and architects rather than politicians. The only word I remember is...

Hi Mia, I've seen Finnish players on this board. Chiff & Fipple has a companion site (tinwhistletunes.com ) where a Finnish player of Irish music recently made an appearance. I've highlighted some of the names he mentions. Maybe you can locate one or more of them if you live anywhere near Helsin...

Okay Rick, let's look at time-sharing a shop vac. Let's stage a benefit concert for the shop vac fund. Two whistles, downtown in front of Taco John's at 5 pm?

Caj,

I think we'll see lots of each other, the Shamrock House is where I plan to stay too. Cool.

This thread is supposed to be about Guillaume, so "Guillaume, get your sweet butt back to the board!"

I'm counting on him being at East Durham this summer. Are you going to make it, Jack? Huh? Huh? I'll be in Mike Rafferty's class in the morning. Then the sean-nos step class in the afternoon. I don't dance, but I read that 80 year old men can do sean-nos step for hours and hours, I though what the h...

This is funny, Rick, I've been dreaming of a space-age vacuum for a while now, since I noticed my $30 vac seem to redistribute cat hair rather than suck it up. Maybe you could buy one with a return guarantee. Or if you want to start a "favorite vacuum cleaner of all time" thread, I'll read...

There's a Thursday coming up (May 5th) that I can take a day trip to either Detroit, Ann Arbor, or Chicago. I'd love to pay for an Irish flute lesson and then take in a session. Sessions I can find, but I could use someone's assistance in getting in contact with flute players who offer lessons. If y...

Does anyone else read "IRTradRU?" as a sort of mumbled "ERR-trad-ROO?" Maybe it's just me. Took me way to long to figure it out.

Thanks, Jennie. Much less gloomy!