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Of Jetlag and Electric Fences
By Paula Carroll | February 18, 2009
Jetlagged for sure! I arrived home the Monday after Willie and Siobhán Kelly’s wonderful session in New Jersey (the passion with which people have talked about the quality of the music in that Session is lovely to hear.) I slept a fair bit that day, and thought I was fine on Tuesday and Wednesday. Got back to work and the usual routine. Then for the rest of the week I was floored! Is it possible to get a relapse of jetlag?!! Anyway, I did get it together for the Session in Glendree, Tulla last Sunday with that gentleman Pakie Malley - son of fiddler Bill, and our genial host (see pic below).
But the local electric fences got the better of our high speed digital broadcast line!! Pakie and I spent the day going up and down the top road in Glendree getting all the neighbours to turn off their electric fences. We even turned off a few ourselves when we couldn’t find anyone at home! But one of them eluded us, and made a live broadcast impossible that day. Technology, how are you! Never mind. Tune in next Sunday 22 Feb for the final Kitchen Session - when Glendree will have been purged of electric current, and livestock may be found roaming the parish of Tulla, kicking their heels up to the music from Pake Houlihan’s kitchen! (Pakie has chosen to host the programme in the kitchen of Pake Houlihan (now deceased) because Pake Houlihan’s was so well known for decades as a great rambling house and centre of music
in Glendree)
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