Best ITM city in N. America

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:14 pm

Pat Cannady wrote:BTW Carol, we forgot Sean Cleland. Sean would kick my ass if I didn't mention him .

Yikes. Of course. And I just bought the latest bohola CD, too. Very nice.

Thanks, Pat.

Carol

Pat Cannady · Post by **Pat Cannady** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:39 pm

Lorenzo wrote:Ah, but you know how many Irish musicians have come out from Chicago (the uncontested city of ITM--far as I'm concerned) to the Seattle-Portland area and never returned? Or at least never wanted to? Not a city full of older names, but the newer younger ones is phenomenal. Portland is known in the circles as the fiddlers paradise, Seattle more for pipers (and other instruments).

And recently, I even seem to recall a guy named Pat thinking of moving to Seattle!

Cincinnati use to be hopping with ITM back in the 80's. I knew quite a few of them and use to see them regularly at our summer festivals out here.

Well, I can live without the cold dry reed-killing, pipe-cracking weather in January, that's for sure. You can find a session almost any night of the week, even in the dead of winter, but some nights it's better to just stay in, put a pot of water on the stove and play in your kitchen.

oleorezinator · Post by **oleorezinator** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:33 pm

Bloomfield wrote:
oleorezinator wrote:
j dasinger wrote: Why?
bill ochs, jerry o sullivan, ivan goff, tony demarco,brian conway,paddy reynolds,john nolan,linda hickman, mick moloney, patrick ourceau,eamonn o' leary, james keane to name a few. sessions 7 days a week. etc. nice avatar by the way.
Where's there a session on Wednesday? I've been looking.

tony demarco has one on wed. i'll keep you posted.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:58 pm

oleorezinator wrote:
Bloomfield wrote:
oleorezinator wrote:bill ochs, jerry o sullivan, ivan goff, tony demarco,brian conway,paddy reynolds,john nolan,linda hickman, mick moloney, patrick ourceau,eamonn o' leary, james keane to name a few. sessions 7 days a week. etc. nice avatar by the way.
Where's there a session on Wednesday? I've been looking.
tony demarco has one on wed. i'll keep you posted.

That would be at O'Reilly's? Let's meet some time and catch some chunes.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 6:11 pm

I know b*gg*r all about the ITM scene in the USA, but the answer surely has to be Chicago because of Chief O'Neill. Where would we be today without those wonderful guys who kept the tradition more than alive, when it was being repressed in Ireland. Besides, the finest ITM harmonica player of the present day, James Conway, is a Chicago man! Biased, me??

Cheers!

Steve