The old fella behind me and my mum Margaret and brother Jim is my dad Mick. He smoked a pipe all his life like most the Irish Old men did. He was a great step dancer and best of pals with your Granddad. He would only get up to dance every Preston Guild haha. Mike Grogan
I've just posted a picture with Winnie Duffy in, I believe from Mike Grogan that it is his mum playing the fiddle there ......and what about your dad he could sing too!
I remember playing the bodhran when I was about 15 with a white haired lady fiddler lady in the Railway pub, the bodhran was made by Dick Lett of Wexford who was involved with Great Harwood Comhaltas, lovely instrument with his trade mark Celtic decoration, ,I left it in a bar in Boston about 15 years ago. Anyhow the fiddler was very good, and I remember folks telling me she had been on the BBC and her music had been broadcast in Scotland too,. My dad would often sing in the Railway, and the Farholme, I recall one of his songs was the Old Bog Road.
That will be Mick Grogan in the background
ReplyDeleteThe old fella behind me and my mum Margaret and brother Jim is my dad Mick. He smoked a pipe all his life like most the Irish Old men did. He was a great step dancer and best of pals with your Granddad. He would only get up to dance every Preston Guild haha.
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Was the fiddler Winnie Duffy? Her son ran the Railway pub in Waterfoot, I recall some sessions there.
ReplyDeleteHello Sean, I think you are correct but I'll have to check with Mike Grogan, if Winnie Duffy was his mum then yes.
DeleteMaybe the fiddler was Mrs Grogan, I was too young to go in the pub back then, so I might have confused Mrs Grogan with Mrs Duffy...
ReplyDeleteI've just posted a picture with Winnie Duffy in, I believe from Mike Grogan that it is his mum playing the fiddle there ......and what about your dad he could sing too!
ReplyDeleteI remember playing the bodhran when I was about 15 with a white haired lady fiddler lady in the Railway pub, the bodhran was made by Dick Lett of Wexford who was involved with Great Harwood Comhaltas, lovely instrument with his trade mark Celtic decoration, ,I left it in a bar in Boston about 15 years ago. Anyhow the fiddler was very good, and I remember folks telling me she had been on the BBC and her music had been broadcast in Scotland too,. My dad would often sing in the Railway, and the Farholme, I recall one of his songs was the Old Bog Road.
ReplyDeleteApparently Mike Grogan has an 8mm recording of that but no way of playing it, would be lovely to archive it, we'll have to work out a way.
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