Friday, October 12, 2012

Honoring tradition Larry Reynolds, fiddler of local renown, is mourned - The Boston Globe

Frank Joyce had to keep his funeral home in Waltham open a lot later than planned Wednesday night. Larry Reynolds’s wake was supposed to last for six hours. But it took more than nine hours to get everybody through the line.

“At least a couple of thousand people,” Joyce said. “They just kept coming.”

It seemed like half of them returned to Waltham on Thursday morning, to St. Jude Church, where Larry Reynolds was dispatched from this world with the two things that embodied him: kind words and beautiful music.

A Waltham cop, perplexed by the size of the crowd that spilled out of the church onto Main Street, tugged at a photographer and asked, “Who was this guy?”

Larry Reynolds grew up in a village called Ahascragh, in County Galway, in the west of Ireland. When he was 10, his brother Harry bought him a fiddle and his sister Betty, who was working as a maid for a wealthy family, paid for lessons. He was schooled in the traditional style peculiar to East Galway, and he played for love, not money.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Brendan Mulvihill | Blue Ridge Irish Music School

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Brendan Mulvihill (fiddle)  and Keith Carr (bouzouki)
Saturday 20 October, 8 pm, House Concert,  Tx $15
Afternoon workshops on fiddle, bouzouki and banjo To reserve a space for the concert or workshop or for more information, please email to or call 434-409-9631.



Performances & Events | Blue Ridge Irish Music School:

Grainne Murphy And Kathleen Boyle In Concert, Winona Grange

October 13th 2012, 7:30pm – 10:00pm
Winona Grange
8340 SW Seneca St
Tualatin
Oregon
USA
Website: http://www.winonagrange271.org


The Session: Events - Grainne Murphy And Kathleen Boyle In Concert, Winona Grange: