March and this butterfly is emerging from her cocoon and spreading her wings

There is a heck of a lot going on for me right now!  My life is wildly different than it was six months ago, and I am emerging for the long dark winter. I have been practicing both harp and fiddle like crazy and making great strides on the fiddle and slowly (not so slowly as before though) adding new tunes to my repertoire.

I am making friends hand over fist at the moment and have established myself as a regular at the Friday and Saturday night sessions at The Roadside Tavern (fiddle only at the moment).  I get support and encouragement there.  I now go to a Tuesday night session in Ennistymon at Cooley's Pub.  Monday night is listening only in Doolin at Fitz's Pub which is more like a performance and features Luka Bloom, except now I have been invited to bring my harp!

There is a large group of French music students coming over here for a week of Irish music experience.  It will be new for them.  Two of the students are  harpists and I am going to show them how to approach the harp for Irish music.  I am excited about this!

Who am I and what is happening to my life?  It is crazy, intense and wonderful!  Playing music in my leaky caravan on a stormy day, turf and wood fire blazing, with my flute playing friend and neighbor and my friend Severine who works here now on fiddle, and a man I have a bit of a crush on, one of the most amazing fiddlers around.