St. Pat's at Monterey Youth Center
I had the good fortune of playing with an enthusiastic local céilí band for an Irish dance recital at the Monterey Youth Center. A lady by the name of Shannon (who actually competed against Michael Flatley in Irish dance) led her youthful students through several numbers in a nicely decorated community building adjacent to the park. It was a fun evening and a fine way to cap off another great St. Paddy's Day.
The jam rolled right along, courtesy of Shirley and Robin on fiddle, Cory on guitar, and Laura on mandolin. Yours truly did the Dr. Seuss thing and played the fozzlewonkers and bingleboppers in the background. I'd like to play again as soon as possible (who said you can't keep up the St. Pat's musical momentum?)
Nostalgia time. Two whole years ago, I celebrated St. Pat's at the Task Force Olympia Civil-Military Operations Center (CMOC) in Mosul, Iraq. A fellow Civil Affairs officer, MAJ Stephanie Gerber, organized the shindig with decorations and green tea. A local oud-playing youngster named Bilal joined us, and he got his first (and hopefully not his last) exposure to Celtic fiddle and mandolin.
The Olympian newspaper ran a cover story that day back home in Washington that focused on the human side of the campaign in Iraq. My music-loving friends from Olympia sent me all sorts of small musical instruments (harmonicas, tin whistles, kazoos, etc.) which I distributed to children in Northern Iraq.
As you can see, St. Patrick's Day has special meaning to this soldier...
The jam rolled right along, courtesy of Shirley and Robin on fiddle, Cory on guitar, and Laura on mandolin. Yours truly did the Dr. Seuss thing and played the fozzlewonkers and bingleboppers in the background. I'd like to play again as soon as possible (who said you can't keep up the St. Pat's musical momentum?)
Nostalgia time. Two whole years ago, I celebrated St. Pat's at the Task Force Olympia Civil-Military Operations Center (CMOC) in Mosul, Iraq. A fellow Civil Affairs officer, MAJ Stephanie Gerber, organized the shindig with decorations and green tea. A local oud-playing youngster named Bilal joined us, and he got his first (and hopefully not his last) exposure to Celtic fiddle and mandolin.
The Olympian newspaper ran a cover story that day back home in Washington that focused on the human side of the campaign in Iraq. My music-loving friends from Olympia sent me all sorts of small musical instruments (harmonicas, tin whistles, kazoos, etc.) which I distributed to children in Northern Iraq.
As you can see, St. Patrick's Day has special meaning to this soldier...
posted by Glenn Tolle | 10:25 AM
1 Comments:
Hey Glen.
I was checkin my profile links to people who like Hayseed Dixie. Looks like you and I are the only ones at this time..haha
I also noticed that you're a musician....I'm a guitar player myself (me and about a million others).
Anyhow, I like all kinds of music and I just thought I'd drop in and say Hi and all that.
One last thing...That is an interesting use of "Audio Blogger" in the previous post. I thought of maybe doing something like that. Maybe I'll check into it.
Later
Tom.
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