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Dervish – Irish Music

Day 17 – Arriving in Sligo

Gay's work
Brian McDonough from Dervish

It was quite a long drive from Gort to Sligo Town -2.5 hours. Mercifully the rain eased up. Now I remember how beautiful the countryside is here in Sligo. Called into Brian’s painting studio – an old school house. Some lovely work by Brian McDonough. So nice to see Gay McDonough as well. After a lovely dinner by Brian we drove into town to the session at “Shoot the Crows” – a very lovely and narrow pub. Well this session was SUPER fun. “Is it always this fun in Sligo?” I ask. Felip on guitar, Ian on guitar, Ray Coen on fiddle & guitar, Brian on mandola, Alain on Clarinet, & Eddie lee on bass.

Day 5 – off to Inishbofin

Gave David a lift up to Galway city so he could get some gear from Paul Doyle. Then called in at the home of Rob Fuller & Mary Byrne where Miriam was making cupcakes. (Note to self; don’t drive through Galway City in afternoon rush hour!) Then a lovely but frantic drive through Connemara to catch the ferry in Cleggan – made with 10 minutes to the good. With this fecking cane I couldn’t carry my 3 bundles alone but Mark & Anne O’Malley from Galway City got me on & off the ferry. Kevin was not there to meet me & neither does my Meteor phone work on Bof 🙁 So what to do but have a pint. Sat next to another tourist; John Culamore from Lismore Co. Waterford. Isn’t he a music promoter and doesn’t he know loads of Canadian musicians. http://lismoreworldmusic.blogspot.ie/ One pint led to 4 and the proprietor of the Day’s in couldn’t find me a lift he drove me himself the 2 km’s to Kevin Abeyta’s. Thank you Adrian Herlihy. Kevin and I stayed up til 3 catching up. Inishboffin is truly a magical and beautiful place.

 

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