This weekend’s ceilidh featured an Actual Barn with Hay In It And Everything, some home-brewed cider, and a cat.
The cat came to see us while we sitting, waiting to play, and consuming the home-brewed cider. Marie, who plays accordion, says that cats make her sneeze. All cats appear to sense this, and thus approach her [...]
Entries Tagged as 'ceilidh'
Pre-ceilidh
August 19th, 2010 · Lifeblog, Music
Ceilidhs for people’s weddings almost always run late. Usually by about an hour. Sometimes, in the correct environment, this can be very pleasant, such as this weekend when we spent about an hour sitting in a gazebo next to the river at the bottom of someone’s garden (where they were having a ceilidh in a [...]
The Sign Says No
June 20th, 2010 · Lifeblog, Music
I have just come back from the Third Coldest Gig I’ve Ever Played (first place goes to Ely Folk Club in January 2001; second place to a ceilidh in a barn in December 2009). It was a ceilidh in a marquee in the wind. My original attire of jacket-and-tiny-skirt-with-tiny-shoes was rapidly replaced by my emergency [...]
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