August....and roll on September!

I didn't want all of August to go by without me posting anything.  I have had my ups and downs this month for sure.  The video is Caislean An Oir re-learned in G minor the more common key that it is played in....

Last night I went to an incredible party, all by myself.  I took the bus to Ballyvaughan and from the bus stop I followed the directions to the house that my friend gave me.  As I turned into the little housing development I could hear the clock in the village striking the hour.  Bong....Bong....Bong (seven times--7:00 pm).  In that moment it was like a wake up call, a call to an adventure already underway.  "This is it!"  It seemed to be saying to me, "This is *your* life now.  You are living a great adventure, here in County Clare on your own, The old life is gone, Mike is gone."  It was bittersweet, exciting, I could taste the anticipation of what could happen, the possibilities......

The house was something from a movie set, like a rock star's house, located on the bay, with a balcony of rooms on the second floor overlooking the water and the massive kitchen below.  There was a gigantic long table spread out with food and drinks.  There was a small session going on at the one end.  Yvonne Casey (whom I adore) and a silver haired portly gentleman and a young lady I assumed to be his daughter were all playing tunes.  Gorgeous and in perfect synchrony.  I poured myself a cocktail of coke and spring water and pulled up a chair close by and listened and breathed it in like the most delicious healing balm.  Yvonne asked me where my harp was, alas I *must* get driving!

Later the bands went on in the next room.  I danced away all night long!  First to my friend's band and then to the second band I had never heard before.  Good old school rock-n-roll.  Sounded punky to me but I was informed that the band's influences were more Lou Reed than Sex Pistols.  What do I know?  It's all good and very danceable.

What's this to do with harps?  At the end of the night the singer from the second band said he'd been thinking a lot lately of including harp in one of his other musical projects which is a folk group that includes my friends from the first band and the lovely lady who hosted the party.  I said "I'M IN!!"

Roll on September........... !!