Remembering Banjo

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There will be concerts on Saturday afternoon from 3-8:30 pm at the Shamrock House followed by a ceili from 9 p.m.-midnight. Sessions will take place where space and management and attendance dictate.

Registration and information will be available at Furlong's Riverside Pub starting on Friday, or check the website www.joebanjoburke.org with a caution that it hasn't been updated in awhile. Therefore, any details need to be confirmed with Bridget Burke. Donations can be made to Banjo Burke Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 937, Greenwood, New York 14839 to assist this cause.

Later on in the month the East Coast Irish Pipers (www.eastcoastpipers.com) assemble once again on the lovely intimate campus of Gavin's Golden Hill Resort for the Northeast Piping Tionol for the weekend of October 24-27. Going for two decades now and in its fourth year in East Durham, its attendees are mostly all fanatical - and some fantastic pipers - who come together to support themselves and the Irish instrument that inspires so much great traditional Irish music.

The staff this year includes pipers Mick O'Brien, Cormac Cannon, Patrick D'Arcy, Ivan Goff, Debbie Quigley, Cillian Vallely, and Benedict Koehler plus special guest artist Jimmy O'Brien-Moran.

In recent years they have added fiddle tutelage over the weekend and providing that this year are Patrick Ourceau and Breda Keville visiting from Galway who garnered critical acclaim for an old-fashioned (in a good way) recording of East Galway music called The Hop Down back in 2006. While the workshops require registration, the Saturday night concert from 7:30-10 p.m. and any resultant sessions are open to the general public (admission is only $15 to help support the weekend) there at Gavins.

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