The annual November Spiddal Gathering is nearly upon us...
The Annual Spiddal
Gathering us almost upon us and once more we anticipate the sweet
sounds of the playing of tunes infiltrating the chilly winter Spiddal
air and insinuating their way into the ears of unwary passers by,
causing foot tapping, singing and even dancing to spontaneously break
out at random.
The Spiddal Gathering
is currently in its seventh year and in honour of the occasion we at
Spiddal Sessions interviewed Tom Giblin and Maria O'Hare in their
historic and musically significant home, Lord Killanin's Gate Lodge,
one time home to Dé Danann and the scene of many an impromptu
session over the years.
From the baptismal
flooding of the first year to the ever increasing number of barrels
of later festivals, Tom and Maria take us through some of the
highlights of the yarns that have emerged from the Gathering over the
years.
We have included, for
your entertainment and enlightenment, some photos of previous years
and some clips of rare film footage of certain musicians, well known locally,
playing in the Gate Lodge at various times.
We hope to gather more
information at the Gathering itself (20-22 November 2015) from
willing participants and eventually to amass enough material to
produce a major Hollywood movie, with George Clooney and Meryl Streep
playing Tom and Maria for Spiddal Gathering: The Movie, or,
failing that, to create an interesting archive for the wonderment of
future generations.
We hope you enjoy our
first attempt at manipulating film for our purposes and we hope to
bring you more of the same in the future.
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