{"id":824,"date":"2014-04-28T03:51:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T03:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2014-04-28T03:51:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T03:51:35","slug":"day-8-to-berkeley-to-see-solas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/28\/day-8-to-berkeley-to-see-solas\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 8: to Berkeley to see Solas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all those miles yesterday I kept a low profile; breakfast in the room, enjoy the outdoor pool, play some tunes &#038; listen to Solas  interviewed o KALW radio. Teresa was out checking out the Ferry Building. And just by chance she was on the same bus that Harry &#038; Jan were boarding to come meet us at our hotel.<br \/>\nOff to Miss Saigon for a delicious Vietnamese meal. T &#038; I had planned to see Solas, the great Irish-American quintet. I count 2 of the members as friends whom I met and jammed with in Ireland; Noriana Kennedy on vocals and banjo &#038; Mick McCauley on box &#038; vocals. What a stellar show!  Great work lads! They are promoting their new CD, Shamrock City, a concept album re telling the story of Seamus&#8217; great-great uncle who was murdered in Butte Montana in 1916. Great cd and well written. But like Kevin at the Sunday night session I am an instrumentalist and always favour tunes over songs. The tunes they did play were exceptional. At one point Jan whispered in my ear &#8220;does a band ever get better than this?&#8221;  Indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all those miles yesterday I kept a low profile; breakfast in the room, enjoy the outdoor pool, play some tunes &#038; listen to Solas interviewed o KALW radio. Teresa was out checking out the Ferry Building. And just by chance she was on the same bus that Harry &#038; Jan were boarding to come&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/28\/day-8-to-berkeley-to-see-solas\/\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,44,46,50,24,57,23,58,45,55,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banjo-edmonton","category-banjo-lessons-edmonton","category-edmonton-music","category-fiddle-lessons-edmonton","category-gigs","category-guitar-lessons-edmonton","category-lessons","category-mandolin-lessons-edmonton","category-music-lessons","category-solas","category-ukulele-uke-lessons-edmonton"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phnddJ-di","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}