Happy St. Patrick's Day (a day late)

Joining some colleagues after work for a tradition St. Patrick's Day libation, I had to an endure a frighteningly awful quartet of lady musicians (on guitar, accordian, keyboard and drums, with a Celtic harp and bagpipes lying nearby, thankfully unplayed) playing some traditional Irish music and some decidedly not (Piano Man).

So to purge my ears I decided to find some other Irish music to celebrate with and I found Sir Hamilton Harty's Irish Symphony (courtesy of Rhapsody, Naxos and the National Symphony of Ireland). This was much more the thing to go down with my ale. Just for fun, I'll throw in some John McCormack as well.

By the way, if you are in the neighborhood of Milford (MA) Town Hall at 7:30 on March 19, 2005, you do well to go see The Clafin Hill Symphony Orchestra with I Squared, guest artists Matthew Surapine and Jim Russell, tenors. It will be very entertaining evening of Irish and Italian music which I recommend highly (and not just because one of them is my brother).