Landed!I did not expect such a beautiful gift when there are 357 days to Christmas! We are listening to the beautiful concert right now and we are as excited as that day!Thanks a lot to Hilary!!
Stay safe Christy! We hope that everything goes well and that we return to listen to the musicians playing live!
(sorry for my english!)
Christy's reply
all credit goes to Hilary for sharing her “secret” recordings…in making these files Hilary bravely risks the wrath of zealous security officers who patrol concerts like sniffer dogs and have been known to uncover recording devices in certain extraordinary places….one listener was found to have a microphone concealed in a bag of Taytos whilst another, who had flown in from Okinawa was found to have a recording device concealed in his Pioneer Pin….by the time the venue staff were finished with him he vowed never to travel to Europe again….excuse my Italian ! x
Dear Christy, thank you for making us listen to your songs even in this difficult year for everyone. I still remember your concert in Carrick on Shannon on April 8, 2018, my husband and I came to listen to you from Italy. Ireland is always in our hearts, every year in winter we come back to spend a few days of vacation, but unfortunately I do not know when we will be able to see the beautiful island again. Thank you for your music, your voice, for the passion and humanity you’ve always shown throughout your career. I would like to know if there is a recording or video of that concert at the Landmark Hotel, it would be great to relive that evening of great emotions! I wish you all the best. Wishes! Michela and Enrico
Christy's reply
a recording may wing its way attached to an email fro the Kingdom of Kerry….The Rose of Tralee keeps an ear to the ground and is always prepared to help a 4711er…let us know if it lands
Hello Christy,
Do you ever find that you change tunes as you inhabit a song? I’ve noticed that as a song develops I must have changed the tune without meaning to. When I go back to listen to the recording I learnt it from, I’ve done things to it.
Maybe it’s as they become yours?
Thinking about it from the other direction, I don’t write tunes down because I think songs shouldn’t be pinned down too much. There’s a freedom to learning from a set of words that my eyes are not quite good enough to see, with chords scribbled over them.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
some songs continuosly evolve..others never budge an iota…..repeated live performance often leads to songs being altered… adjusted….inflected..turned about…
on occasion I have taken large liberties with songs both contemporary and traditional…so far without major mishap…..
I did hear from Morrissey’s publisher once about a cover …I suspect it was some office boy’s admonishment rather then the Singer Himself…but I could be wrong
Happy New Year Christy…new songs, new hope, new listeners, new sense of appreciation.. Reading your reply to Marty earlier reminded me of the buzz leading up to the gigs.. the important roles carried out by each comrade.. and then the magic of an audience filtering in to listen, laugh, cry, reminisce and SING. That process is one of great fulfillment. Gladly chip in when the gigs come up this part of the island and took this time lapse video of a small part of the set up on 13th April 19′ (The Slieve Russell). Hope you don’t mind me posting the link. https://vimeo.com/496244542
Keep er lit
Kev
Christy's reply
Thanks Kevin….thats great..I’d love a longer slowed down version..fair play to you
Happy New Year, dear Christy!
A very tough year is all behind us now and there’s hope for a brighter one ahead. 2020 was the first year for decades we weren’t able to visit the Island and to enjoy some of your gigs – but in spite of everything you never missed to keep our spirits high. Thank You!
It was such a pleasure to watch your “wee” Vicar St Gig last Sunday night – brought back lovely memories of many starts of the year when we were enchanted by the “January Man” in that great venue. Together with your son Andy you were brilliant – especially loved The Lakes of Ponchartrain!
What a wonderful idea Hilary had in working out a Kingdom Tour – we’d gladly join in!
Wishing you and all your Companeros a very healthy and peaceful 2021.
T & H
Christy's reply
Should that tour come off we’d all be talking with Kerry accents…
if we take up Hilary’s offer then we’d have to do similar tours in the other 31 Counties…
I’d have to kick it off in Kildare…..Neeson’s, Moorefield, Ryston,Kilashee, Two-Mile-House, Poulaphouca, Blacktrencn, Cutbush and Boolea….Dag Welds, The Thatch, The Standhouse,….a ramble through the Short Grass would set us up rightly
Happy new year to you and yours, Christy…..lets all look forward to new beginnings.
For the day that’s in it….from the “early Years”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzQUopMSowQ.
Best Regards.
Happy new year Christy and everyone of you fine folk here.
May you all find the happiness and joy you seek and let us all keep well in 2021
Grá agus sonas mó chairde
Hi All, a full moon, a new year & new decade, good music in the past & present and hope for the future in friendship, good company & gratitude, le gach dea ghui i gcóir na hAth bliana. Cóimeád slán, beir bua agus beannacht. H
Christy's reply
ready for road, straining at the leash, gummin for gigs,at the ready, fully rehearsed, under starter’s orders,willin to travel,waitin for the call, prepared to go, cooked to order, lets be off,giz a job, any chance of the start,
ar agaidh linn
The talk of the gallary and Dickon’sphotos reminds me of the input and advise and help Dickon gave me over the years. I remember many many years ago one of my first gigs in enniscorthy Dickon took the time before the gigs to help me set up my camera when I was starting out takeing photos and had no clue how to use it at the time his input and help is very valued .. Some mighty shots on this pagefrom him.
Happy new year christy
Christy's reply
You are right Adam…Dickon is a very skilled man with many strings to his bow..you yourself have become a very talented photographer these past years..great to have some of your pictures on recent releases
I wish you and your family well for 2021..
Hi Christy, good wishes for 2021 to you and all here.
Like Rebecca I often read through past messages the knowledge and creativity there is amazing, but fundamentally we all share a deep regard for you and your music.
Will be welcoming the New Year in with my dogs, a cup of something and Jools Holland’s Hootenanny.
Really looking forward to your January concert and hopefully a live one in the not too distant future if you can possibly get over here.🤞Pam
Christy's reply
Hey Pam, hope you had a good Hoot with Jools….May the light shine upon us all in the coming year..may we know peace and freedom in 2021…
I’m doing some prep for the january concert..I want to do an entirely different set from the Sept 19th stream last year
Hi Christy.. last night as I was dreamin’.. Declan Sinnott was trying to teach me the riffs he plays on “Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette” from Live at The Point 2006.. his patience was wearin’ thin.. sweet sounds from those nylon strings.. Small dusting of snow here today.. Another lockdown.. many would prefer a lockdown in the South Pole Inn or Krugers.. Spud in the soup & a dusting of black pepper.. You’re well underway with NCH practice no doubt.. looking forward..
Keep er lit
Kev
Christy's reply
the spud is a great addition when the soup begins to run low….I added the left-over sprouts and cold cauliflower yesterday…a spoon of curry paste and some marmite today…it has taken on a life of its own…on day 6 we have a totally unique broth on the go…one that has never before been asembled and could never be repeated ( no one, the cook included,has any idea of whats gone into the pot since Dec 25th)…but where would we be without the spud ?
Pat Quinn: The Great Potato Feud, Craiceann Bodhran Festival 2012…..enter into youtube
‘Twas on a dreary New Year’s Eve as the shades of night came down.
Dear Christy and fellow 4711ers, have a great night ,raise a glass or mug to remember those that did not make it ,and then after The Bells celebrate our freedom of musical expression at gigs to come in 2021 from Kerry to Bury, Free Derry to Broughty Ferry and Ruberslaw to Brittas bay’s shore .
Regards and a’ the best.
Rory
Christy's reply
Here we go again Rory…another Hog done and dusted…all we gotta do now is get 2021 up and running….here we go
Hello Christy,
Sometimes I look back at my posts here and wonder what nutter wrote them. They jump out and we’re off, and it all makes sense… then. The mind can be a wonderful animal when it’s running with friends. Running off to the circus though, I’m not sure.
I’m very grateful to all the people I’ve met here, some good friends, kind, intelligent, creative, tolerant.
I’m thinking about 2020 but experiencing it once in the present was quite enough. I’ve done a lot of singing and harping. Often by myself
2021, I hope the 2020 Brighouse festival finally runs. The guy in the art gallery in Brighouse is in charge. Originally I was going to be playing in pubs but it looks like it might have turned into something bigger when we get there.
I hope everyone here is doing well and all my very best wishes to you.
Rebecca
Recently,we riffed on your ‘gallery’ – its a great wander. Have more images been added or have I just found some more pages? Fascinating variety…
All good wishes for 2021 -thanks to you and companeros here for brilliant music and chat in such a challenging year.
Dave
Christy's reply
I loved that old gallery, still drop in occasionally,…when we commenced here, Dikon would take shots from the monitor desk at every gig and then pin them up on the gallery wall….it somehow drifted away and the practice was suspended…I wish it had continued…
Thanks for all your input here …you have provided us with great info and directed us towards some stellar music and song, greetings and best wishes to you and all songsters in Suffragette City
Seven years ago I was paralyzed while surfing in New Jersey. A friend of mine reached out in this forum and you sent over a handwritten note and a copy of a great DVD from Scotland. Your words of encouragement got me through some tough times and even though I am paralyzed from the chest down, I returned to full time teaching two years post injury and then became a motivational speaker.
When the pandemic hit, I dictated a memoir that I hope the have published in the spring of 2021. Before my injury I played tin whistle, flute, guitar, bass, and piano and led my own band. Your songs have been a great companion for me on my journey. You gave so many of us the greatest gift when you re-formed Planxty in 2004.
Thanks again and please if you can reach out to me by email as I would like to share more with you if possible.
hiya, Birchmere, Alexandria, Va is where I listened to you and heart bursting with pride, gathered up enough courage to approach to say my thanks for your coming to America . Back in the day, I’m 82 now, we had a great group of countrymen, Hugh Kelly from the Irish Times in D.C., Pat Troy, Ireland’s Own, Mc Dermott from the Dub.,the list goes on and on and memory fails with names: the faces, spirit and courage never forgotten.Mandolin Mountain, it is. Best Wishes to all.
Christy's reply
Hey there S.Murphy….I made 6 trips to the USA between ’84-’98… I played Birchmere once or twice and remember it as a unique Music Venue…those early trips were exciting times for me….I was 20 years on the road before I got to gig in America….got to play in some famous venues there but its the clubs I remember best…among them were The Lansdowne in The Bronx, Jasper Farrell’s in Sausalito, Tommy McGann’s in Boston,The Iron Horse in Northampton and Randall’s Island in New York…..keep coming back…tell us some more
Landed!I did not expect such a beautiful gift when there are 357 days to Christmas! We are listening to the beautiful concert right now and we are as excited as that day!Thanks a lot to Hilary!!
Stay safe Christy! We hope that everything goes well and that we return to listen to the musicians playing live!
(sorry for my english!)
all credit goes to Hilary for sharing her “secret” recordings…in making these files Hilary bravely risks the wrath of zealous security officers who patrol concerts like sniffer dogs and have been known to uncover recording devices in certain extraordinary places….one listener was found to have a microphone concealed in a bag of Taytos whilst another, who had flown in from Okinawa was found to have a recording device concealed in his Pioneer Pin….by the time the venue staff were finished with him he vowed never to travel to Europe again….excuse my Italian ! x
Dear Christy, thank you for making us listen to your songs even in this difficult year for everyone. I still remember your concert in Carrick on Shannon on April 8, 2018, my husband and I came to listen to you from Italy. Ireland is always in our hearts, every year in winter we come back to spend a few days of vacation, but unfortunately I do not know when we will be able to see the beautiful island again. Thank you for your music, your voice, for the passion and humanity you’ve always shown throughout your career. I would like to know if there is a recording or video of that concert at the Landmark Hotel, it would be great to relive that evening of great emotions! I wish you all the best. Wishes! Michela and Enrico
a recording may wing its way attached to an email fro the Kingdom of Kerry….The Rose of Tralee keeps an ear to the ground and is always prepared to help a 4711er…let us know if it lands
I’ve just wandered across this
https://youtu.be/aqlLJXYtRWg
That must have been fun
twas grand
Hello Christy,
Do you ever find that you change tunes as you inhabit a song? I’ve noticed that as a song develops I must have changed the tune without meaning to. When I go back to listen to the recording I learnt it from, I’ve done things to it.
Maybe it’s as they become yours?
Thinking about it from the other direction, I don’t write tunes down because I think songs shouldn’t be pinned down too much. There’s a freedom to learning from a set of words that my eyes are not quite good enough to see, with chords scribbled over them.
Rebecca
some songs continuosly evolve..others never budge an iota…..repeated live performance often leads to songs being altered… adjusted….inflected..turned about…
on occasion I have taken large liberties with songs both contemporary and traditional…so far without major mishap…..
I did hear from Morrissey’s publisher once about a cover …I suspect it was some office boy’s admonishment rather then the Singer Himself…but I could be wrong
Happy New Year Christy…new songs, new hope, new listeners, new sense of appreciation.. Reading your reply to Marty earlier reminded me of the buzz leading up to the gigs.. the important roles carried out by each comrade.. and then the magic of an audience filtering in to listen, laugh, cry, reminisce and SING. That process is one of great fulfillment. Gladly chip in when the gigs come up this part of the island and took this time lapse video of a small part of the set up on 13th April 19′ (The Slieve Russell). Hope you don’t mind me posting the link. https://vimeo.com/496244542
Keep er lit
Kev
Thanks Kevin….thats great..I’d love a longer slowed down version..fair play to you
Happy New Year, dear Christy!
A very tough year is all behind us now and there’s hope for a brighter one ahead. 2020 was the first year for decades we weren’t able to visit the Island and to enjoy some of your gigs – but in spite of everything you never missed to keep our spirits high. Thank You!
It was such a pleasure to watch your “wee” Vicar St Gig last Sunday night – brought back lovely memories of many starts of the year when we were enchanted by the “January Man” in that great venue. Together with your son Andy you were brilliant – especially loved The Lakes of Ponchartrain!
What a wonderful idea Hilary had in working out a Kingdom Tour – we’d gladly join in!
Wishing you and all your Companeros a very healthy and peaceful 2021.
T & H
Should that tour come off we’d all be talking with Kerry accents…
if we take up Hilary’s offer then we’d have to do similar tours in the other 31 Counties…
I’d have to kick it off in Kildare…..Neeson’s, Moorefield, Ryston,Kilashee, Two-Mile-House, Poulaphouca, Blacktrencn, Cutbush and Boolea….Dag Welds, The Thatch, The Standhouse,….a ramble through the Short Grass would set us up rightly
https://youtu.be/gzQUopMSowQ
Wrong link previously
Happy new year to you and yours, Christy…..lets all look forward to new beginnings.
For the day that’s in it….from the “early Years”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzQUopMSowQ.
Best Regards.
Happy 2021 Patsy….
Happy new year Christy and everyone of you fine folk here.
May you all find the happiness and joy you seek and let us all keep well in 2021
Grá agus sonas mó chairde
Dreamland, Bapti’s,
Hi All, a full moon, a new year & new decade, good music in the past & present and hope for the future in friendship, good company & gratitude, le gach dea ghui i gcóir na hAth bliana. Cóimeád slán, beir bua agus beannacht. H
ready for road, straining at the leash, gummin for gigs,at the ready, fully rehearsed, under starter’s orders,willin to travel,waitin for the call, prepared to go, cooked to order, lets be off,giz a job, any chance of the start,
ar agaidh linn
Happy New year boss – the guitar is out and there’s a tune or 2 being sang – have a happy and healthy 2021.
is it you that I hear calling
The talk of the gallary and Dickon’sphotos reminds me of the input and advise and help Dickon gave me over the years. I remember many many years ago one of my first gigs in enniscorthy Dickon took the time before the gigs to help me set up my camera when I was starting out takeing photos and had no clue how to use it at the time his input and help is very valued .. Some mighty shots on this pagefrom him.
Happy new year christy
You are right Adam…Dickon is a very skilled man with many strings to his bow..you yourself have become a very talented photographer these past years..great to have some of your pictures on recent releases
I wish you and your family well for 2021..
Hi Christy, good wishes for 2021 to you and all here.
Like Rebecca I often read through past messages the knowledge and creativity there is amazing, but fundamentally we all share a deep regard for you and your music.
Will be welcoming the New Year in with my dogs, a cup of something and Jools Holland’s Hootenanny.
Really looking forward to your January concert and hopefully a live one in the not too distant future if you can possibly get over here.🤞Pam
Hey Pam, hope you had a good Hoot with Jools….May the light shine upon us all in the coming year..may we know peace and freedom in 2021…
I’m doing some prep for the january concert..I want to do an entirely different set from the Sept 19th stream last year
Hi Christy.. last night as I was dreamin’.. Declan Sinnott was trying to teach me the riffs he plays on “Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette” from Live at The Point 2006.. his patience was wearin’ thin.. sweet sounds from those nylon strings.. Small dusting of snow here today.. Another lockdown.. many would prefer a lockdown in the South Pole Inn or Krugers.. Spud in the soup & a dusting of black pepper.. You’re well underway with NCH practice no doubt.. looking forward..
Keep er lit
Kev
the spud is a great addition when the soup begins to run low….I added the left-over sprouts and cold cauliflower yesterday…a spoon of curry paste and some marmite today…it has taken on a life of its own…on day 6 we have a totally unique broth on the go…one that has never before been asembled and could never be repeated ( no one, the cook included,has any idea of whats gone into the pot since Dec 25th)…but where would we be without the spud ?
Pat Quinn: The Great Potato Feud, Craiceann Bodhran Festival 2012…..enter into youtube
‘Twas on a dreary New Year’s Eve as the shades of night came down.
Dear Christy and fellow 4711ers, have a great night ,raise a glass or mug to remember those that did not make it ,and then after The Bells celebrate our freedom of musical expression at gigs to come in 2021 from Kerry to Bury, Free Derry to Broughty Ferry and Ruberslaw to Brittas bay’s shore .
Regards and a’ the best.
Rory
Here we go again Rory…another Hog done and dusted…all we gotta do now is get 2021 up and running….here we go
Does anyone ever mention the Lyrics part of this site? It’s like Alladin’s cave and Shangri-la in there for me. What a treasure trove.
I needed this reminder…thanks Rebecca…the lyric section has been neglected
Hello Christy,
Sometimes I look back at my posts here and wonder what nutter wrote them. They jump out and we’re off, and it all makes sense… then. The mind can be a wonderful animal when it’s running with friends. Running off to the circus though, I’m not sure.
I’m very grateful to all the people I’ve met here, some good friends, kind, intelligent, creative, tolerant.
I’m thinking about 2020 but experiencing it once in the present was quite enough. I’ve done a lot of singing and harping. Often by myself
2021, I hope the 2020 Brighouse festival finally runs. The guy in the art gallery in Brighouse is in charge. Originally I was going to be playing in pubs but it looks like it might have turned into something bigger when we get there.
I hope everyone here is doing well and all my very best wishes to you.
Rebecca
Hi Christy
Recently,we riffed on your ‘gallery’ – its a great wander. Have more images been added or have I just found some more pages? Fascinating variety…
All good wishes for 2021 -thanks to you and companeros here for brilliant music and chat in such a challenging year.
Dave
I loved that old gallery, still drop in occasionally,…when we commenced here, Dikon would take shots from the monitor desk at every gig and then pin them up on the gallery wall….it somehow drifted away and the practice was suspended…I wish it had continued…
Thanks for all your input here …you have provided us with great info and directed us towards some stellar music and song, greetings and best wishes to you and all songsters in Suffragette City
Hey Christy,
Seven years ago I was paralyzed while surfing in New Jersey. A friend of mine reached out in this forum and you sent over a handwritten note and a copy of a great DVD from Scotland. Your words of encouragement got me through some tough times and even though I am paralyzed from the chest down, I returned to full time teaching two years post injury and then became a motivational speaker.
When the pandemic hit, I dictated a memoir that I hope the have published in the spring of 2021. Before my injury I played tin whistle, flute, guitar, bass, and piano and led my own band. Your songs have been a great companion for me on my journey. You gave so many of us the greatest gift when you re-formed Planxty in 2004.
Thanks again and please if you can reach out to me by email as I would like to share more with you if possible.
Billy
Good to hear from you Billy…..
hiya, Birchmere, Alexandria, Va is where I listened to you and heart bursting with pride, gathered up enough courage to approach to say my thanks for your coming to America . Back in the day, I’m 82 now, we had a great group of countrymen, Hugh Kelly from the Irish Times in D.C., Pat Troy, Ireland’s Own, Mc Dermott from the Dub.,the list goes on and on and memory fails with names: the faces, spirit and courage never forgotten.Mandolin Mountain, it is. Best Wishes to all.
Hey there S.Murphy….I made 6 trips to the USA between ’84-’98… I played Birchmere once or twice and remember it as a unique Music Venue…those early trips were exciting times for me….I was 20 years on the road before I got to gig in America….got to play in some famous venues there but its the clubs I remember best…among them were The Lansdowne in The Bronx, Jasper Farrell’s in Sausalito, Tommy McGann’s in Boston,The Iron Horse in Northampton and Randall’s Island in New York…..keep coming back…tell us some more