mournful uilleann pipes
drift down from misty mountains
rain and tradition
Kim M. Russell, 20th August 2018
My response to Carpe Diem #1500 Where the rivers flow, Irish folkmusic
In today’s journey on the folk music quest, we are travelling to Ireland, where I lived at the beginning of the 1980s and where my daughter was born.
Chèvrefeuille has given us a comprehensive background to traditional Irish music. I remember the sessions and fleadhs, where friends and acquaintances, well-known and lesser-known musicians got together to play and sing. Back then, I used to sing too. I’ve included a video of ‘Bean Phaidin’, one of my favourite songs by Planxty, and Christy Moore singing ‘The Cliffs of Dooneen’.
writing in north norfolk 
What a lovely haiku, Kim!! I truly enjoyed your music video as well. I hope someday I can go to visit my great grandfather’s home in Ballybunion.
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Thank you so much, Cheryl-Lynn! I hope you get to visit Ireland soon.
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Oh! such musical Excellence! (@–>–)
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Thank you, Dorna! 😊
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Excellent haiku Kim and what a joy it was to listen to the music you shared here too. What a coincedence that you lived in Ireland.
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From 1980 to 1983. We knew a lot of musicians at the time, although we didn’t live in Dublin. My daughter Ellen was born in Dublin.
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