Dear Reader –
Soccer pundit Eamon Dunphy used to be very clear on the difference between a good and a great player. More on this below, but mostly in this week’s letter I will be looking back on 2021 and looking forward to 2022..
*All hyperlinks in bold.
The Big Thing
Firstly, here are 4 new pieces and 8 new arrangements in which I was lucky to be involved this year...
The first 6 are from earlier in the year, the second six all from the Theme Night Album.
The Saunter (Quinn) - see below
Something Beautiful - new arrangement (Quinn)
In The Lamplight Long Theme (Quinn)
Moments (Devaney/Maitland/Quinn)
Waiting (Brennan/Devaney/Feehily, arr. Devaney/Quinn)
Minstrel Boys and Girls (new lyrics O’Dowd, arr. O’Dowd/Quinn) - for Fleadh Cheoil 2021 - no longer available online.
She’s Always a Woman - new arrangement (Courell/Quinn)
That Was Your Mother - arr. Devaney/Quinn
I Started a Joke - arr. Concannon/Quinn
How Sweet it is (To be Loved by You) - arr. Conway/Gorman/Quinn and Theme Night Ensemble
How Can I Keep From Singing? - arr. Flynn/Quinn
Going Home - arr. Quinn
Where else but Sligo?
Given we are approaching the end of the year, I decided to celebrate some of the great people who make up our local music scene for last week’s Sligo Weekender. Including Felip Carbonell.
You can read the article here.
What’s New?
The videos from Theme Night #28 are steadily appearing online. Thanks as always to Kris and Dominika Manulak for their consistently great work in this regard. Check out this playlist to see if your favourite is up yet.
Tommie Gorman wrote this beautiful piece for The Currency on the positives taken out of an aborted trip to Italy.
Courtesy of James Clear’s newsletter…a thought as we go into 2022…
"The difference between good and great is often an extra round of revision.
The person who looks things over a second time will appear smarter or more talented, but actually is just polishing things a bit more.
Take the time to get it right. Revise it one extra time."
Finally…
This was Oonagh Monahan’s 6th Theme Night, but her first time singing out front on her own. Worth waiting for however…this was beautiful.
Till next time - Kieran.
