Session at La Riposte in Chatelaudren, Bretagne
I messaged Franck on thesession, on the off chance he might respond. I was in Bretagne for a few weeks and had my concertina in the car with my golf clubs. Franck got back immediately to tell me where all the sessions were being held. I decided to go to the one in La Riposte […]
In Praise of the Line (and the Distrust of Colour)
I have learned something about myself by playing Irish traditional music,something I didn’t set out to learn,something that arrived the way real knowledge arrives:not as an opinion, but as a bodily certainty. I trust the tune. Not “music” in general — not sound, not style, not culture —but the tune itself, the single living line,and […]