Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Irish on Mondays

Monday night, I hit my first Irish session in DC. I'll be going to the weekly session at Nanny O'Brien's. I got there around 9 and was pleasantly surprised to find that the players were almost all in the 25-35 year old age range. As the night went on, more players arrived, of all ages, and it was a lot of fun. Scott always says that he finds himself to be the only youngish person at sessions, but at Nanny O'Brien's, this was definately not the case. There were also people there who I recognized from Irish Arts Week. They played some tunes that I knew, and others that I need to learn. I also need to pick a set that I want to do. What does the "Hare's Paw" go with? I also told a guy (Jon?) that I'd learn this tune he likes but noone knows called "Cleveland Park" which is also the neighborhood that the bar resides in. I also really figured out that I need to practice more and start keeping track of what tunes I know.