Hello Christy,
Something brilliant happened yesterday. You know I’m really into rhythm. Well, I was tootling away on the mandolin (it has a strap now), and I suddenly noticed that it contains an infinite number of rhythms. Brilliant! This is going to be so much fun!
I remember you talking about eavesdropping outside a pub when you were too young to go in. A woman was singing a song. The Blackbird? She whistled the last verse.
It’s been a while. I watched your interview on The Two Norries. You are one of the major influences on my singing along with Victor Jara, Luke Kelly and Richie Haven whose method I use to play guitar in open D tuning.
I’ve always admired your courage in speaking out for the oppressed through your songs and your actions. I love your humour also but it accompanies the sound commitment that I have recognised at your concerts and interviews over all these years. I often sing Ordinary Man and Viva La Quinta Brigada at open mics here in North Devon and also when I play the occasional gig or when busking. Nancy Soain is another lovely song.
Long may you continue Christy.
Here’s one of my songs. You’re welcome to sing it if you wish. I have others.
we have all been influenced by those gone on before us…like you I was stopped in my tracks by many voices and sounds when I was a lad…diiferent voices…from the wireless,the fireside, an old wind-up turn-table. scratched 78s,eavesdropping outside pubs , transfixed by buskers at race meetings, football matches….and then I heard The Clancy Brothers…way back in 1962
thanks for sharing your song
Doing some home jobs and playing some albums not heard in awhile…
1996,solo album by Rick Wright,Pink Floyd keyboards maestro and singer…enjoying prog rock as much as ever and stopped in my tracks by a fantastic,familiar voice…checked sleeve notes and it sure is Sinead O’Connor.
Brilliant that her session work was quite prolific,great to hear her unexpectedly…sad that Sinead has gone.
Dave
Christy's reply
always a lovely vibe from Rick Wright..he had a grand smile on him
Christy fair enough, i had favoured Sheila’s view but entirely respect that the alternative one can be right just as your experience shows.
The flame can be kept aglow in different ways by different folk.
Thanks for the knowlege and viewpoint.
Rory
Christy's reply
Morra Rory…variety is the spice,different strokes, some folk are seriously precious whilst others wear the garment lightly, be it trad, revival, contemporary, grunge, industrial, piss-head, teetotal, its all mashin and mixin into an endless cacophony of glorious life affirming, head staggering, eye watering, groin flexing ballads, jigs reels, sean-nos, polkas, mazurkas,dancing dervishes….gimme High Level Ranters, Stockton Fettlers,Cyril Tawney, Watersons, MacCalmans, Aly Bain & Mike Whellans,, gimme Hamish, Archie, Big Yin & Gerry,Carthy & Swarb, Ewan & Peggy,Shaggis, Nic,…everyone doin their own unique take on whats old and new and in between, sometimes all rolled into one…
best wishes to all North & South of The Borders….
Christy hi
In that programme with sheila stewart, aidan moffat had assumed he understood the meaning of a song and went about changing it.
She rightly went through him, explaining the true meaning of the original handed down through generations.
The keepers of the flame must be respected. Generational songs from traveller to traveller, balladeer to balladeer, unaccompanied singer to unaccompanied singer are handed down for a reason.
Jacko no doubt sang almost exactly as he was given the songs himself.
A word here or there can perhaps be modified but the ‘keeper’ of the flame is the keeper not the adaptor.
Rory
Christy's reply
Rory…re John Jacko’s singing and songs…..you are wide of the mark…when John sang there was a great freedom in his singing….some of his words were derivations…his melodies could vary… John would have been much more involved in the act of singing itself than worrying about the precision of his delivery..I saw him once pause in a song..have a sup from his glass and continue in a different key with a variant melody to what he had been singing before his pit stop….John neither read nor wrote..he’d have gathered all his songs from repeated listening..
I think I’ve sung 6 or 7 songs from John’s repertoire..in some cases I have rewritten verses, on at least two occasions I’ve actually added verses where the narrative was not flowing and felt incomplete…occasionally John’s words simply made no sense..it felt he was taking a ‘stab’ at certain words and hoping for the best..
on one occasion I sang “new” verses in the company of Tom Munnelly..it was Tom who recorded John, I’m sure Tom would have noticed..had he disapproved he most certainly would have let me know..
its all part of the ongoing process..
and, for sure, it will continue ’til the end of time
Hello Christy,
So, I’m currently at the “playing a cat with a cheese grater” stage.
I’ve discovered that you can buy picks made from felt.
They should arrive tomorrow.
Rebecca
Any mention of Musgrave always gets me going, Christy!I remember the 1st time I heard Musgrave. You introduced it as “we started this song at opening time and finished it at closing time”! Was either The Abbey or the Stadium! 80-82!.
Re; the 2004 live re-union version, I discovered the CD version is different from the DVD/YouTube version. And what gets me on the CD version is “Slowly slowly he got up and slowly he put on” its like you’re singing it as a bass harmony as the lead, (its the best i can describe it)! Stunning! Gets me every time!
Christy's reply
Musgrave has been on the road with me on and off since 1976…only sang it once in the past two years….at a tribute to Liam Óg Ó’Flynn at the Moat Theatre in Naas last October..we had a lovely night…Colm Broderick is a fine young Piper from Carlow….he played Liam’s Concert set of Pipes and they were sounding beautiful…Liam had three principal sets of Uilleann Pipes…. one set went to his friend Pádraig MacMathúna..the other two sets went to Na Píobairí Uilleann who in turn loaned them out to two emerging Pipers…Louise Mulcahy now plays his “Flat” B set while Colm plays his Concert D set..all Liam’s papers and archive material went to The Irish Trad Music Archive (ITMA) where they will be stored and available to study for all the musicians yet to come ….Liam Óg’s Music still resounds, his legacy is secured
Today,I had a great catch-up with friends in South Cumbria.
On both journeys,from the train,I glimpsed the extent of Morecambe Bay.It’s an intimidating space,even in the benign light of a great sunset…I’m playing the song you recorded to great acclaim…the criminals were villified but it’s impossible to imagine the terror of the victims as the tide closed in…RIP
The protest song has so much power,the best of them rekindle memories,anger and sympathy over many years…’Morecambe Bay’being one.
Dave
Christy's reply
“out beyond the streetlamps where the caliopes roar”
Tá sceitimíní orainn tú a fheiceáil i nDoire 25/04/2024. Could I kindly ask a lovely man like yourself to dedicate a song to our sister on her birthday. she danced to Rainy Night in Soho with her children Éabha and Rossa with her husband Seán on her wedding night and her favourite songs by you are Ride on and Beeswing. and many a Christy tune was sung the same wedding evening. Grá mór agus sláinte chugat x
Hello Christy,
I had a look at some pictures of vega mandolins. Very beautiful, as you say. That first old one that I bought looked beautiful but as soon as I’d got one string course in tune, the one next to it had wandered off. Like trying to tune an elephant that’s only interested in buns.
I’m thinking your Atkin must be superbly well behaved, as well as looking and sounding beautiful.
That was some setlist from your Wexford gig!
Rebecca
Christy's reply
I think I might get the Atkin rigged up for stage work
Hi christy,
For anyone who can get bbc iplayer here is a recommendation, started last night…..
Where You’re Meant to be
Scottish cult-pop raconteur Aidan Moffat, frontman of indie band Arab Strap – and best known for his no-holds-barred lyrics about sex, drugs and male anxiety – sets out to explore his country’s past by rewriting and touring its oldest songs.
It’s meant to be a tour that allows Moffat to explore the roots of his country. It’s meant to be a trip that celebrates Scotland’s communities and lore. But then he meets Sheila Stewart – a 79-year-old force of nature and travelling balladeer whose life, and unexpected death, upturns Moffat’s musical assumptions. He believes these old songs are ripe for updating against a modern urban backdrop. She does not. With Sheila’s criticism ringing in his ears, the bold Moffat embarks on a trip around Scotland’s remote parts that proves to be as uncanny as the Scottish weather. He finds himself caught up in a feud between two monster hunters at Loch Ness, singing to a dismissive Hebridean farmer in his kitchen, and holding court with a mob of ancient warriors in a Highland graveyard.
When Moffat’s tour comes full circle, back to his hometown of Glasgow, he ends up in the legendary Barrowland Ballroom: the best loved rock stage in the world, and the setting for an unlikely final showdown, in a funny film about music and death.
Anyone who cannot access it then maybe have a listen to some Arab Strap, gloriously bizarre, and some Sheila Stewart, just glorious.
Rory
Christy's reply
Happy Sunday Rory,
Thanks for this..
we’re outside the reach of thon BBC iPlayer
sounds like a worthwhile project
maybe I’ll get to hear it when I next cross the invisible border into County Down
Dia dhuit Christy, I’ve loved your music since I was a child and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing you live for the first time in both the Kilashee hotel and from the front row of the Wexford opera house in the last few weeks. Your music has had such an impact on me that I intend to get a tattoo to represent my love for your music and I would be honoured if you’d be willing to draw a little something to add to the tattoo, Doesn’t have to be anything special just a little doodle would be greatly appreciated and would act as a reminder to the great memories I’ve made at your shows.
Thankyou, Adam adamwickhamlfc@gmail.com
Christy's reply
God Be With You Too Adam…
Like Yourself I’ve loved the Songs since Childhood and I appreciate you writing to me about your love of the songs….in early childhood our Mother taught me “Kevin Barry” and “The Meeting of The Waters”.
I never got a tattoo myself, I almost got my ear pierced in 1966 but went for a drink instead..( prob a mistake)
I would not know what to doodle for your purpose….song is a nice word in itself ..whatever course you take, I wish you well on your journey
Good morning here Christy:
I’m off to spin some 60s songs on community radio & now have your songs playing as inspiration
Little Musgrave came on again & how I love this song !
Carries me away so sweetly
Hope you’re all well & chipper
Some drizzle here on the Murray on a peaceful Sunday morn
Not religious but thoughts for war victims everywhere
Thank you for your thoughts & deeds to help
Danny Harris
Christy's reply
I used to introduce this song:
“I heard a fellow start Little Musgrave one Sunday Lunchtime in London. I went home for the dinner. When I came back he was still singin it.Its very long”
When I played it first twas back around ’74 with the Band of the day (Kevin Burke,Jimmy Faulkner,Declan McNelis plus Donal Lunny at the Helm) in the 80s played it solo and also with Planxty, ( good version on the 2004 re-union) ..in this millenium played it with Declan Sinnott and Jimmy Higgins…its a big song..played it one night with Glen Hansard and Liam Ó Maonlaoí in Whelan’s of Wexford St. in Dublin…I loved that one-off unrehearsed version…it drifted in and out of whatever was goin on…..
Ar Ais Arís, Looking forward to seeing you at the Royal T.F in October Christy, its the week of my Birthday….would love to get a photo with you before or after your performance if at all possible! I’m a huge fan and have been for many years! I will be attending with another friend of mine you is also a musician but has never had the pleasure of hearing you play live!
All the best, and will see you in October 🎸
Christy's reply
hopefully, we’ll paddle the water that flows between now and then…TF in Castlebar always a great venue…first played there in Dec 1972 with Planxty…we travelled back to Dublin overnight thru frost and snow,,,we had a bottle of sweet poitín in the back of the van which warmed the cockles..it was a long haul back then..before aherne and flynn built all the Motorways
We can’t thank you enough for the amazing, emotional, uplifting, thought provoking, and general great craic of the Killashee concert of the 27th March. Kit and Ellie had yet again the best time listening to you, taking in the power of the audience and the magic of you, your songs, and your music.
We managed to capture on video when you called out to them and sang Ordinary Man, and Kit’s reaction has brought many people to tears! Something none of us will ever forget. Thank you for your generosity and thank you again to the lovely Hilary!
I’ve seen you in many places over the years, but watching you on home turf – and watching my Kildare husband as he watched you – was definitely one of the best. More power to you, and here’s to the next visit back home to see you. Next time we won’t fly over late before so Kit doesn’t get too sleepy though!!!
All the best from Warwickshire,
Caroline
Christy's reply
Wonderful to see you in Kilashee…Kit & Eliie lit up the night….thank you for being there…Cill Dara Abú
Hello From the Bay Area Christy, I’m getting in touch because I want to put on a concert honoring yourself, where my friends and I want to sing the many songs that we have learned from your singing over the years. I would like to event to be a fundraiser for Gaza, for a local organization MECA, Middle East Children’s Alliance – I put on a benefit for them in January and it was a huge success. I’m in touch with Davog on Facebook too. Anyhow, I hope that this is ok with you. All the best for now and keep up the good work, Cormac
Christy's reply
Go For It Cormac
Thank you for asking
Hope all goes well
Christy
Hello Christy,
Something brilliant happened yesterday. You know I’m really into rhythm. Well, I was tootling away on the mandolin (it has a strap now), and I suddenly noticed that it contains an infinite number of rhythms. Brilliant! This is going to be so much fun!
I remember you talking about eavesdropping outside a pub when you were too young to go in. A woman was singing a song. The Blackbird? She whistled the last verse.
Here’s something I’m enjoying right now.
https://www.itma.ie/playlists/selections-from-the-mcconnell-family-collection-part-two/?fbclid=IwAR0szNSqi5TdDmU-dHabtXkNljBTW6coDHeVCSuqBK2WQJta7rUDCI1j4ko#close
Rebecca
Hello Christy
It’s been a while. I watched your interview on The Two Norries. You are one of the major influences on my singing along with Victor Jara, Luke Kelly and Richie Haven whose method I use to play guitar in open D tuning.
I’ve always admired your courage in speaking out for the oppressed through your songs and your actions. I love your humour also but it accompanies the sound commitment that I have recognised at your concerts and interviews over all these years. I often sing Ordinary Man and Viva La Quinta Brigada at open mics here in North Devon and also when I play the occasional gig or when busking. Nancy Soain is another lovely song.
Long may you continue Christy.
Here’s one of my songs. You’re welcome to sing it if you wish. I have others.
With love and solidarity
Dave 💚✊🏿
https://on.soundcloud.com/iWfu3fqFADYJi6qo9
we have all been influenced by those gone on before us…like you I was stopped in my tracks by many voices and sounds when I was a lad…diiferent voices…from the wireless,the fireside, an old wind-up turn-table. scratched 78s,eavesdropping outside pubs , transfixed by buskers at race meetings, football matches….and then I heard The Clancy Brothers…way back in 1962
thanks for sharing your song
Hi Christy
Doing some home jobs and playing some albums not heard in awhile…
1996,solo album by Rick Wright,Pink Floyd keyboards maestro and singer…enjoying prog rock as much as ever and stopped in my tracks by a fantastic,familiar voice…checked sleeve notes and it sure is Sinead O’Connor.
Brilliant that her session work was quite prolific,great to hear her unexpectedly…sad that Sinead has gone.
Dave
always a lovely vibe from Rick Wright..he had a grand smile on him
Christy fair enough, i had favoured Sheila’s view but entirely respect that the alternative one can be right just as your experience shows.
The flame can be kept aglow in different ways by different folk.
Thanks for the knowlege and viewpoint.
Rory
Morra Rory…variety is the spice,different strokes, some folk are seriously precious whilst others wear the garment lightly, be it trad, revival, contemporary, grunge, industrial, piss-head, teetotal, its all mashin and mixin into an endless cacophony of glorious life affirming, head staggering, eye watering, groin flexing ballads, jigs reels, sean-nos, polkas, mazurkas,dancing dervishes….gimme High Level Ranters, Stockton Fettlers,Cyril Tawney, Watersons, MacCalmans, Aly Bain & Mike Whellans,, gimme Hamish, Archie, Big Yin & Gerry,Carthy & Swarb, Ewan & Peggy,Shaggis, Nic,…everyone doin their own unique take on whats old and new and in between, sometimes all rolled into one…
best wishes to all North & South of The Borders….
Christy hi
In that programme with sheila stewart, aidan moffat had assumed he understood the meaning of a song and went about changing it.
She rightly went through him, explaining the true meaning of the original handed down through generations.
The keepers of the flame must be respected. Generational songs from traveller to traveller, balladeer to balladeer, unaccompanied singer to unaccompanied singer are handed down for a reason.
Jacko no doubt sang almost exactly as he was given the songs himself.
A word here or there can perhaps be modified but the ‘keeper’ of the flame is the keeper not the adaptor.
Rory
Rory…re John Jacko’s singing and songs…..you are wide of the mark…when John sang there was a great freedom in his singing….some of his words were derivations…his melodies could vary… John would have been much more involved in the act of singing itself than worrying about the precision of his delivery..I saw him once pause in a song..have a sup from his glass and continue in a different key with a variant melody to what he had been singing before his pit stop….John neither read nor wrote..he’d have gathered all his songs from repeated listening..
I think I’ve sung 6 or 7 songs from John’s repertoire..in some cases I have rewritten verses, on at least two occasions I’ve actually added verses where the narrative was not flowing and felt incomplete…occasionally John’s words simply made no sense..it felt he was taking a ‘stab’ at certain words and hoping for the best..
on one occasion I sang “new” verses in the company of Tom Munnelly..it was Tom who recorded John, I’m sure Tom would have noticed..had he disapproved he most certainly would have let me know..
its all part of the ongoing process..
and, for sure, it will continue ’til the end of time
Hello Christy,
Just want to give you my wholehearted support for the work you’ll do on 15th May, singing at halftime at a very important match.
That youngest brother of yours is a very engaging performer, isn’t he. Wandered across this the other day.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/jAPeY6injfKNrv81/
Rebecca
lovely to see/hear our kid and his companeros ..great start to a sunny cold beautiful morning
Hi C. A glowing review and well deserved from H.P. Congrats https://www.hotpress.com/music/live-report-christy-moore-goes-to-the-opera-23017418?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_campaign=article&utm_medium=web beir bua agus beannacht.H
on we go…trying to get some exposure for Jim Page’s song “Palestine”…. well received by listeners who gather
Hello Christy,
So, I’m currently at the “playing a cat with a cheese grater” stage.
I’ve discovered that you can buy picks made from felt.
They should arrive tomorrow.
Rebecca
The Pick and The Shovel The Mixer and Hod
Any mention of Musgrave always gets me going, Christy!I remember the 1st time I heard Musgrave. You introduced it as “we started this song at opening time and finished it at closing time”! Was either The Abbey or the Stadium! 80-82!.
Re; the 2004 live re-union version, I discovered the CD version is different from the DVD/YouTube version. And what gets me on the CD version is “Slowly slowly he got up and slowly he put on” its like you’re singing it as a bass harmony as the lead, (its the best i can describe it)! Stunning! Gets me every time!
Musgrave has been on the road with me on and off since 1976…only sang it once in the past two years….at a tribute to Liam Óg Ó’Flynn at the Moat Theatre in Naas last October..we had a lovely night…Colm Broderick is a fine young Piper from Carlow….he played Liam’s Concert set of Pipes and they were sounding beautiful…Liam had three principal sets of Uilleann Pipes…. one set went to his friend Pádraig MacMathúna..the other two sets went to Na Píobairí Uilleann who in turn loaned them out to two emerging Pipers…Louise Mulcahy now plays his “Flat” B set while Colm plays his Concert D set..all Liam’s papers and archive material went to The Irish Trad Music Archive (ITMA) where they will be stored and available to study for all the musicians yet to come ….Liam Óg’s Music still resounds, his legacy is secured
Sorry I neglected to credit Kevin Littlewood,the composer of ‘On Morecambe Bay’…brilliant work…D
it could happen to a Bishop
Hi Christy
Today,I had a great catch-up with friends in South Cumbria.
On both journeys,from the train,I glimpsed the extent of Morecambe Bay.It’s an intimidating space,even in the benign light of a great sunset…I’m playing the song you recorded to great acclaim…the criminals were villified but it’s impossible to imagine the terror of the victims as the tide closed in…RIP
The protest song has so much power,the best of them rekindle memories,anger and sympathy over many years…’Morecambe Bay’being one.
Dave
“out beyond the streetlamps where the caliopes roar”
Dia leat Christy,
Tá sceitimíní orainn tú a fheiceáil i nDoire 25/04/2024. Could I kindly ask a lovely man like yourself to dedicate a song to our sister on her birthday. she danced to Rainy Night in Soho with her children Éabha and Rossa with her husband Seán on her wedding night and her favourite songs by you are Ride on and Beeswing. and many a Christy tune was sung the same wedding evening. Grá mór agus sláinte chugat x
Ríoghnach and Paddy.
silent dedication !!!
Hello Christy,
I had a look at some pictures of vega mandolins. Very beautiful, as you say. That first old one that I bought looked beautiful but as soon as I’d got one string course in tune, the one next to it had wandered off. Like trying to tune an elephant that’s only interested in buns.
I’m thinking your Atkin must be superbly well behaved, as well as looking and sounding beautiful.
That was some setlist from your Wexford gig!
Rebecca
I think I might get the Atkin rigged up for stage work
Hi christy,
For anyone who can get bbc iplayer here is a recommendation, started last night…..
Where You’re Meant to be
Scottish cult-pop raconteur Aidan Moffat, frontman of indie band Arab Strap – and best known for his no-holds-barred lyrics about sex, drugs and male anxiety – sets out to explore his country’s past by rewriting and touring its oldest songs.
It’s meant to be a tour that allows Moffat to explore the roots of his country. It’s meant to be a trip that celebrates Scotland’s communities and lore. But then he meets Sheila Stewart – a 79-year-old force of nature and travelling balladeer whose life, and unexpected death, upturns Moffat’s musical assumptions. He believes these old songs are ripe for updating against a modern urban backdrop. She does not. With Sheila’s criticism ringing in his ears, the bold Moffat embarks on a trip around Scotland’s remote parts that proves to be as uncanny as the Scottish weather. He finds himself caught up in a feud between two monster hunters at Loch Ness, singing to a dismissive Hebridean farmer in his kitchen, and holding court with a mob of ancient warriors in a Highland graveyard.
When Moffat’s tour comes full circle, back to his hometown of Glasgow, he ends up in the legendary Barrowland Ballroom: the best loved rock stage in the world, and the setting for an unlikely final showdown, in a funny film about music and death.
Anyone who cannot access it then maybe have a listen to some Arab Strap, gloriously bizarre, and some Sheila Stewart, just glorious.
Rory
Happy Sunday Rory,
Thanks for this..
we’re outside the reach of thon BBC iPlayer
sounds like a worthwhile project
maybe I’ll get to hear it when I next cross the invisible border into County Down
any mention of Barrowland induces a longing
Dia dhuit Christy, I’ve loved your music since I was a child and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing you live for the first time in both the Kilashee hotel and from the front row of the Wexford opera house in the last few weeks. Your music has had such an impact on me that I intend to get a tattoo to represent my love for your music and I would be honoured if you’d be willing to draw a little something to add to the tattoo, Doesn’t have to be anything special just a little doodle would be greatly appreciated and would act as a reminder to the great memories I’ve made at your shows.
Thankyou, Adam
adamwickhamlfc@gmail.com
God Be With You Too Adam…
Like Yourself I’ve loved the Songs since Childhood and I appreciate you writing to me about your love of the songs….in early childhood our Mother taught me “Kevin Barry” and “The Meeting of The Waters”.
I never got a tattoo myself, I almost got my ear pierced in 1966 but went for a drink instead..( prob a mistake)
I would not know what to doodle for your purpose….song is a nice word in itself ..whatever course you take, I wish you well on your journey
Good morning here Christy:
I’m off to spin some 60s songs on community radio & now have your songs playing as inspiration
Little Musgrave came on again & how I love this song !
Carries me away so sweetly
Hope you’re all well & chipper
Some drizzle here on the Murray on a peaceful Sunday morn
Not religious but thoughts for war victims everywhere
Thank you for your thoughts & deeds to help
Danny Harris
I used to introduce this song:
“I heard a fellow start Little Musgrave one Sunday Lunchtime in London. I went home for the dinner. When I came back he was still singin it.Its very long”
When I played it first twas back around ’74 with the Band of the day (Kevin Burke,Jimmy Faulkner,Declan McNelis plus Donal Lunny at the Helm) in the 80s played it solo and also with Planxty, ( good version on the 2004 re-union) ..in this millenium played it with Declan Sinnott and Jimmy Higgins…its a big song..played it one night with Glen Hansard and Liam Ó Maonlaoí in Whelan’s of Wexford St. in Dublin…I loved that one-off unrehearsed version…it drifted in and out of whatever was goin on…..
Ar Ais Arís, Looking forward to seeing you at the Royal T.F in October Christy, its the week of my Birthday….would love to get a photo with you before or after your performance if at all possible! I’m a huge fan and have been for many years! I will be attending with another friend of mine you is also a musician but has never had the pleasure of hearing you play live!
All the best, and will see you in October 🎸
hopefully, we’ll paddle the water that flows between now and then…TF in Castlebar always a great venue…first played there in Dec 1972 with Planxty…we travelled back to Dublin overnight thru frost and snow,,,we had a bottle of sweet poitín in the back of the van which warmed the cockles..it was a long haul back then..before aherne and flynn built all the Motorways
Dear Christy,
We can’t thank you enough for the amazing, emotional, uplifting, thought provoking, and general great craic of the Killashee concert of the 27th March. Kit and Ellie had yet again the best time listening to you, taking in the power of the audience and the magic of you, your songs, and your music.
We managed to capture on video when you called out to them and sang Ordinary Man, and Kit’s reaction has brought many people to tears! Something none of us will ever forget. Thank you for your generosity and thank you again to the lovely Hilary!
I’ve seen you in many places over the years, but watching you on home turf – and watching my Kildare husband as he watched you – was definitely one of the best. More power to you, and here’s to the next visit back home to see you. Next time we won’t fly over late before so Kit doesn’t get too sleepy though!!!
All the best from Warwickshire,
Caroline
Wonderful to see you in Kilashee…Kit & Eliie lit up the night….thank you for being there…Cill Dara Abú
Hello From the Bay Area Christy, I’m getting in touch because I want to put on a concert honoring yourself, where my friends and I want to sing the many songs that we have learned from your singing over the years. I would like to event to be a fundraiser for Gaza, for a local organization MECA, Middle East Children’s Alliance – I put on a benefit for them in January and it was a huge success. I’m in touch with Davog on Facebook too. Anyhow, I hope that this is ok with you. All the best for now and keep up the good work, Cormac
Go For It Cormac
Thank you for asking
Hope all goes well
Christy
I still have to thank you, so I do now
Thank You too Moeke