I am asking statements from musicians to post on my site with a corresponding link to the websites. It is called Peace: what it is for me, and what can we do to achieve it?

Feel free to contribute.

Banjo Tribute to Jimmy Shand

OK, so another summer is nearly over and our 6 week move to our mobile home down in Ballymoney Wexford is nearly over. It's time to pack the bags and head up to Cavan for the weekend to get a flavour of the Fleadh. Not much music these last few weeks in Wexford apart from checking into TradConnect twice a day on a crappy laptop in an area with little or no reception. Apologies if the approval process has slowed down a bit. No music but plenty of swimming, kayaking, a bit of golf. Lots of…

Hmm... We can't post videos with singing in the video section, but no explanation why. 

OK. Let's try it here.

When I came up with this arrangement of SotCD I wanted to do something different from everything else. Let me know what you think.

Hammered dulcimer - TradConnect member Jim Rathbun and his 10 year old student Noah Jefferies

6 string Banjo - Greg Kaiser

Fiddle - Kelly Kaiser

Guitar and vocal - Bruce Evans…

You'll find that single girls are slimmer than married women..
That's because a single girl comes home, goes to the refrigerator and sees what's in it and goes to bed..
A married woman comes home, goes to the bed and sees what's in it and goes to the refrigerator.

Hi!

Just to let you know there are new versios of Tunepal now available:

The latest Android version has the following new features:

1. Install to SD card option
2. Reorganised tabs, so that the record tab is first
3. Offline tune searches (tags are stored and can be resubmitted when you go back online)
4. A pause button on the tune display screen
5. Tune playback now loops

Kiérah Raymond lives near White Rock, B.C. in a community that is very supportive of the arts. She started classical violin with the Suzuki program at 4 years old and is now doing her ARCT with the Royal…

Today i got my new drum from Seamus, i had one before but was so intrigued by his 'new' 1-screw tuning system, i had to try one :)

It arrived today, and i have barely had time to play it seriously yet (Official premiere will be Kalmar next weekend at Eamonn O'Reilly's live recording gig) but already "raw" out of the box it plays every bit as well as the old one, perhaps with a little brighter sound and a bit more attack. The one screw tensioner is brilliant, as opposed to fiddling…

Spontaneous appearance by yours truly in local countryside church

Maria Bojlund - fiddle

Markus Tullberg - concert flute, cittern

Moi - bodhrán

You will notice that I have recently started to add Album Reviews to my Blog posts. What I think would be good is that on the home page we have an album review section by members. This gives other members a chance to comment on albums and could provide a good resource for people in choosing which albums to buy. It is also an opportunity for members to try out their writing/blogging skills. A couple of issues with this.

Firstly I personally feel I can comment on certain types…

OK folks. We are a bit ahead of schedule but we have had the first TradConnect meetup for a few tunes. And it was'nt in the same town, it was across the water. Kildare based duo Dulahan-Irl and North of England Michael Robert Orme, based in Chesterfield. To mark the occasion they made a video.

http://tradconnect.com/video/the-lark-in-the-morning

Here is what Michael had to say about…

http://www.beautifulpeopledocfilm.com/index.php/about/about-the-file-a-synopsis.html

Dónal McCague - Bits 'N' Pieces

Well we all knew this album was on the way from TradConnect member Dónal McCague. I first heard a soundbite on Twitter…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGbdXUIiti4&feature=channel_video_title

Check out www.notmells.co.uk - it's an amazing w/end with fantastic sessions all day and night. You couldn't wish for a better venue either !

 A couple of days ago i heard Óige, feat. Cara Dillon in a video clip on Baxter Labatos Facebook page,

and i started thinking of the great craic we had at Gothenburg Irish festivals back in 1994 and then again in 1997

I added the O'Kane brothers on Facebook and Murrough remembered even more than i did from the festival :)

I also got more details, among them Eamon…