Bodhran Players
A good sheepdog and a good bodhran player have a lot in common, the bigger the mob the bigger the mess. Sessions are a learning experience for everyone and when you mix a bunch of musos of various backgrounds and set them on the same path of playing JUST THIS ONE TUNE the results are a technicolour yawn of mistakes, interpretations and other assorted stuff-ups such as unhelpful reeds, soggy bodhrans, squeeky fiddles, button clacky accordions. Add a couple of people who have not yet had explained to them the seventy thousand laws, rules bylaws and sub sections of “session etiquette” and are simply playing along cause they love the music and the people and it is a bloody wonder the tunes get out. And a bloody wonder it is because they do get out and every now and again there is the blissful result of a tune played well. TIME FOR A GROUP HUG KIDDIES, we are getting far too serious about this stuff, Next session you go to, turn to the person on either side and offer some warmth, you will be rewarded!