September and time to get playing again!

I just have a quick comment first about the nuts and bolts of our little collective blog.  Lucy, it's your baby so please chime in here.  Should we limit our individual posts to just one entry per month?

You can keep on adding and adding as much as you like, by going into  the same initial entry from the beginning of the month.  I only suggest this because now that we have a few members I get really confused as to who is doing the posting on each blog since we don't have a profile pic or anything like that to immediately distinguish one pots / member from another.  I know we have our names at the bottom of each post, but I get confused anyway.  Does that sound reasonable?

OK, so after our gig at Kirkstall Abbey my manager went on vacation and I had to work almost 3 weeks with only Sundays off and I had stuff I had to do each Sunday.  I was exhausted!  Finally things are back to normal and Mike and I have another gig coming up in a couple of weeks playing at the Saltaire Festival.  Gotta get practicing!  We're listed under Sunday 22nd (Eist), but our friend Brian (the other half of Mike's duo Craig & Wylie) will be joining us.

http://www.saltairefestival.co.uk/event/roberts-park-bandstand/

So Pam, you asked me to list what we played at our last gig and I haven't put the list up yet because I was a little fed up with myself for not playing some of the harder pieces on the list and falling back on stuff I've played last year.  I know I am very hard on myself...  Anyway, here's what we played (minus Mike's songs), but not in this order:

Lament for Limerick
Mist Covered Mountain / Cliffs of Moher
Foggy Dew / Rights of Man
Black is the Colour / Nellie Your Favour I'm Afraid I'll Not Gain
Princess Royale / Castle Kelly
The Morning Star / Temperance Reel
Come West Along the Road / The Mountain Road
Downfall of Paris
The Faery Fort / The New Broom
Father O'Flynn / MacAllistrum's March
She Moved Through the Faire / Cooley's / Tailor's Twist
The Home Ruler / Kitty's Wedding
The Musical Priest / The Gravel Walk
A Fig For a Kiss / The Butterfly
I Buried My Wife / Andy DeJarlis
The Glass of Beer / Humours of Tulla
The Rakes of Clonmel / The Three Drummers
The Atholl Highlander

Ones I missed (plus a couple of slow airs but the mood wasn't right and probably won't be at our next gig either):
The Miser's Purse
George White's / Kitty's Gone-a-Milking
Flying to the Fleadh
Nova Scotia Reel / Egan's Polka (they don't really work together as a set)


So  I've added a couple more sets to the above and figuring out what I'll do on Sunday at the Saltaire Festival.  Been practicing an hour-ish after dinner.  I sometimes think little bursts like that on a regular basis are better than big chunks less often.

Anyway, the weather's looking good for Sunday, warm and sunny so fingers crossed....

The weather was aMAZEing!  Yay!  Sunny and about 70 degrees, you can't ask for more than that in the north of England in September.

It went really smoothly.  I just love playing these kinds of gigs!