a little OT ....Irish music and love

fun and flutie · Post by **fun and flutie** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 9:05 pm

I was just curious, how many of you have met your boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife by your love of ITM?

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:03 pm

I got interested in the music from going to the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, but couldn't find much Scottish music, but I found some Tanahill Weavers and Chieftains albums with a few others.

When camping there, I heard SSP and Nortumbrian pipes and thought I would like to play something like that because you could play inside, and was advised to start with whistle, but the tutors featured Irish music.

Even though I mostly played Irish music, one of the reasons my ex-wife gave for leaving me was that my playing made her homesick (she was from Kilmarnock Scotland).

Now, she has moved to Darwin, England (where her oldest sister lives) and homesick for the USA. :roll:

colomon · Post by **colomon** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 4:53 am

I met my wife standing in line for a Dervish concert....

Pat Cannady · Post by **Pat Cannady** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 1:43 pm

I have no love life, I play Irish music!

But seriously, I met my girlfriend at a pub where local trad and neotrad bands perform just about every monday.

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 1:47 pm

Perhaps you are just squeezing the wrong old bag???

Pat Cannady · Post by **Pat Cannady** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 1:56 pm

Don't insult my pipes like that!!!

Azalin · Post by **Azalin** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 1:59 pm

I have met my great ex girlfriend at Willie week, in Ireland. I would sit and watch her play fiddle, impressed and mouth wide open, a little bit like this dude:

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 5:09 pm

My wife stalked me for three weeks after she saw me play at an informal session after hours at the Minnesota Rennaissance Festival back in 1985/86. When we finally met (instead of swapping long and leering glances from a distance), I knew that she was going to be the one who I would spend the rest of my life with... well,actually, she really didn't give me any choice in the matter whatsoever.

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:10 pm

She had lovers by the score, every Tom and Dick and Harry.
She was courted night and day, but still she wouldn't marry.
And then she fell in love with the fella with the stammer.
When he tried to run away, she hit him with a hammer.

Something like that, Joseph?

djm

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 3:14 am

Very much like that

In fact, believe it or not, 'In the Town of Bally Bay' was one of the songs I sang that night...I guess she took the lyrics a little too seriously!!!

colomon · Post by **colomon** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 7:48 am

You know, in Newfoundland they've turned a fragment of that song into a very popular "single" (basically a fast polka) -- "She Said She Wouldn't Dance". It's pretty common to hear it played a few times through as a tune, and then the four lines of song are sung. Great stuff.

Crysania · Post by **Crysania** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:36 am

Quite the opposite actually...I got INTO the music because of my (now ex-) boyfriend. He's gone, but the music's still there.

I miss playing with him though!

~Crysania

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 9:08 am

I miss playing with him though!

No doubt, but is this what you want to share on C&F?

djm

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:36 am

...settle down, settle down.

Perhaps more information than I require at this time....

LadyDi · Post by **LadyDi** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 12:50 pm

Sol,

It's Diana here. You met her standing in line for a Dervish concert?? Wow, I didn't know that!

And now for a more general reply: I personally have not met a significant other through ITM, but the phenomenon of session players dating each other, at least briefly, seems to be recurringly thematic.

I think it could be related to either the strong common interest and bond, OR just due to how much time people spend together (like here in DC, you could play four or five sessions a week, that's a lot of time to be staring at the player across from you and wondering, "What would it be like to date him/her?") I think the brevity of relationships that I've seen in sessions have been due to the latter. Kind of like, you just end up dating a person because you're hanging out together so much already. Proximity breeds attraction.

So anyway, my thoughts.
Diana