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Slowplayers If you want to learn traditional Irish music, this page is for you! The webpage slowplayers.org provides more information as well as practice aids.

Slowplayers is about Craic Agus Ceol! * Slow players are a dedicated group of people from all over the world who enjoy Irish Traditional Music (ITM) — tunes from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Galicia, England and beyond — and devote themselves to learning in a group setting. As this is community music, played at dances, it’s good idea to play it with other people. It evolved over generations into mus

ic played at a house or a pub just for fun. This is what’s called a session. This website is devoted to helping people learn to play session music by working through tunes at a slower tempo, what is called a slow session. If you can, please take the time to support the music and the community. Play the music whenever you can, and go see those who play it well.

This Jig was penned by my friend Mike Dugger, and has been recorded by a number of different folks. About this tune Mik...
06/07/2022

This Jig was penned by my friend Mike Dugger, and has been recorded by a number of different folks. About this tune Mike writes "I wrote the tune in 1997 in my garage when I lived on 10580 Gillette Street, in Overland Park, Kansas. I don't know where it came from but I had just met Rick Cunningham from Hoover, Alabama at the Swannanoa Gathering and we became, and still are, fast friends....

This Jig was penned by my friend Mike Dugger, and has been recorded by a number of different folks. About this tune Mike writes “I wrote the tune in 1997 in my garage when I lived on 10580 G…

Ballisodare is a small town in County Sligo, with an adult (over 20) population of 1389, and about half are male. At la...
12/22/2021

Ballisodare is a small town in County Sligo, with an adult (over 20) population of 1389, and about half are male. At last count, concerning those from babies to 19 years, there are 179 girls, and 186 boys. So, one might say there are 186 boys of Ballisodare. Alternatively, if we take "boys" to include all males, there is in the neighborhood of 880 boys of Ballisodare....

Ballisodare is a small town in County Sligo, with an adult (over 20) population of 1389, and about half are male. At last count, concerning those from babies to 19 years, there are 179 girls, and …

12/22/2021

In addition to this reel, there is a song, a novel, and a movie with the same title title. None bear any close relation to the tune, save the name, the concept of which is itself a deeply ensconced in Irish consciousness. There’s also many-a CD that contains the tune. The song is an Irish ballad by Robert Dwyer Joyce (1836–1883), about a young Wexford boy who is about to sacrifice his relationship with his beloved to join the 1798 Irish rebellion. ...

In addition to this reel, there is a song, a novel, and a movie with the same title title. None bear any close relation to the tune, save the name, the concept of which is itself a deeply ensconced…

The title of this tune does not refer to the jacket worn while peeling potatoes, carrots, or cucumbers. Rather, it is a...
12/22/2021

The title of this tune does not refer to the jacket worn while peeling potatoes, carrots, or cucumbers. Rather, it is an eponym (not an aptonym!), since part of a person's name is used to refer to a thing, specifically an occupation; but it is also a synecdoche since one man (a part) is used to refer to a group (the whole). ...

The title of this tune does not refer to the jacket worn while peeling potatoes, carrots, or cucumbers. Rather, it is an eponym (not an aptonym!), since part of a person’s name is used to re…

12/21/2021

Happy to announce that Slowplayers.org is back up!

12/20/2021

Slowplayers.org has been moved to a new server, and encountered some glitches. They have been delt with severely. It will be back up shortly.

12/20/2021

Happy Holidays!

04/07/2020

Some of you may have noticed that links to Slowplayers.org, especially from some search engines end up taking you elsewhere -- like to an ED site. I believe that this has been rectified. Also, note that Slowplayers.org is now a secure (encrypted) site, so if you were to type in the address you'd use https.

Ennis is a town in co. Clare, just south of Galway, and has a resident population of around 30,000. It can be a busy li...
03/28/2019

Ennis is a town in co. Clare, just south of Galway, and has a resident population of around 30,000. It can be a busy little very town in high season, easily tripling the population. If you're there, you'll want to go down O’Connell Street, the heart of Ennis. It's a narrow, curved one-way street, lined with about seventy-seven establishments, many being period buildings, and has a distinctive commemorative pillar topped with a statue of Daniel O’Connell at one end -- O'Connell was elected MP for Clare in 1828. [ 651 more words ]

Ennis is a town in co. Clare, just south of Galway, and has a resident population of around 30,000. It can be a busy little very town in high season, easily tripling the population. If you’…

I'm happy to announce that we have relaunched the KC School of Irish Music and are currently holding classes on Tune-Lea...
02/28/2019

I'm happy to announce that we have relaunched the KC School of Irish Music and are currently holding classes on Tune-Learning and on Beginning Bodhrán -- the next tune-learning class will start on Monday, March 25th at the KC Irish Center.
What this means for Slowplayers.org is that I'll be putting up some new tunes (FINALLY!)

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02/13/2018

Are you listening closely enough??! 🤔😉🎶

02/13/2018

Sounds like a great attitude to live with to us!! :-D

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