Thinking about Irish Music...
On March 3, Susanne and I were sitting in our living room. It was a quiet Friday night and we started scanning YouTube for something to enjoy. We're both big fans of watching musicians play. One of our favorite musicians is an Irish balladeer named Christy Moore. We've followed him since I first heard about him in New York City in the 1990s. So we clicked on a video of one of his concerts. As we rolled on to his music, Susanne searched on her phone and said "Hey, he's playing a concert in Castlebar Ireland on October 28th. I wonder if there are tickets available." There were indeed tickets and we bought two.
As we continued to listen, we thought of our other favorite Irish musician, Mary Black. It happens that Mary is playing in Dublin the next Saturday, November 4th and there were tickets available for her concert too. By the end of the night, we had tickets to two concerts in Ireland for the end of October and first of November with no clue how we'd get there.
So this journey began.
We're heading to Ireland on October 24th and have planned about two weeks of travel with the two concerts like bookends. We're so excited.
We are planning on blogging as we go, but this trip seems a little more packed than our prior trips. So we can't promise long writings or extensive blogging, but we'll definitely post pictures and talk about the trip.
We hope you'll join us and follow our trip.
Here's a link to one
of our favorite Christy songs - The Voyage
(Note: you'll probably have to copy and paste these links into a browser to get them to work.)
and here's a link to
a Mary Black song we also just love so much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzEwN-uvdeY
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