Slainte Everyone! Wanted to let you all know that Tim Reilly and I will be teaching a bones workshop at the SeaMusic Festival at the Mystic Seaport in CT, June...
Kenny, Good to hear from you, just back from Mel's wedding, a great time! I had planned on trying to make the Sea Music Festival but find my nephew's wedding...
Nicolas, How good to hear from you! I will email you off list to get caught up. The contest is actually being held today, may bank holiday. The only things I...
Hey There Nic, Some news about Abbeyfeale. With the best weather and crowds yet at the Fleadh, the Bone Playing Competition put the icing on the cake Monday,...
Hi steve, thanks for the report. I wish I had been there, I had a great time last year ! will definitely be there next year. do you plan to go as well ? best ...
Hi Steve, Nic, All, I was down in Abbeyfeale for the Lunasa concert and "got roped " into the contest again. Dave Murphy was first with Paddy Donovan second...
I threw up a quick bones video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCFukAxO_aI I didn't know Greg Burrows had some on there, check him out too: ...
These two video clips are by a young Dane who asked me to show him how to play the bones at Skagen Festival about five years ago. I came accross the videos...
Hey Jeff, Nice video. I often ratchet up the left-hand bone too. And your guitar player is great, sounds like Elizabeth Cotton. Where can I get a pair of those...
Excellent work, Yirdy. You certainly made an impression on the kid. That's one of the best bone solos I have seen. All the best, Scott Miller Saint Louis,...
Earlier this year my nephew (who lives in Dali, China) told me about an ancient Chinese tradition that essentially combines rap music with bone playing. I am...
Hey Fellow Bone Heads, This bone board has been way too quiet this past year. The last few messages are from me - and I don't even like to write. But I have...
That's great, Scott! I know there is a centuries-old Spanish tradition of slate bones -- in Spain the bones might be made of wood, slate, broken dishes, or...
After playing my own, hand carved, vegetarian bones for 25 years, I finally have a set of bone bones. I'm happier than a pig in mud. Thanks to Scott Miller...
About the fragility of slate -- I have a (not explicitly documented) sense from my reading that slate and crockery and roof-tiles were used as bones in spain...
Mike I made some mighty quick bone rib bones from the smaller ribs toward the back of the cow. Cut them short too, about 6 inches or maybe less. They go as...
Johnny Muise, a bone player from Nova Scotia, told a story of how he learned to play the bones from a traveling construction worker. They were putting slate on...
Hey Mike, Thank you for the rib bones endorsement! I saw some hollowed out rib bones at the Bones Fest IX Marketplace in Chattanooga a couple years back. Don't...
Mike, Since obsidian is essentially glass, I would be wary of trying it as a raw material for musical bones. The material flakes razor sharp. Around a thousand...
The Spanish connection makes sense to me, Jonathan. In their 1996 "Santiago" album, Paddy Molony of the Chieftains talks in the liner notes about the ancient...
I'm with you Scott, more bones talk...and listening too. I posted an idea a few months back about a compilation CD project of members recordings. Well, that...
So far, only one hand. But I'll definitely take this as a challenge Who wants to see that vid? : ) -Bob Jeez! I didn't think I have to work so much on biking...
Get caught on tape hitting a parked car or pole while playing bones and make it on America's Funniest Videos. "No bones were harmed in the making of this...
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