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Galway Americana/folk jam circle

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  • 16-12-2014 1:11am
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    seanmcgrath42
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭


    Recently moved back to Ireland from USA and really missing the acoustic folk jam circles. Sitting around in a circle singing and playing 3-4 chord songs and improvising breaks over the chord progression...

    Not much of that going on in Galway from what I can see. Would love to be proved wrong. If not, would be interested in getting something going.
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    CSeale
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭CSeale


    Would love to get involved in something like this


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    seanmcgrath42
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭seanmcgrath42


    CSeale wrote: »
    Would love to get involved in something like this

    Great! PM sent.


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    inisboffin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭inisboffin


    Sent you a PM.


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    Dave Van Ronk
    Registered Users Posts: 342 ✭✭Dave Van Ronk


    Am interested in this. Any venue or meeting organised soon?


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    seanmcgrath42
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭seanmcgrath42


    No meeting organized, so best way to sort that would be to organize one:-)

    Anybody around Saturday evening earlyish?


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    Dave Van Ronk
    Registered Users Posts: 342 ✭✭Dave Van Ronk


    seanmcgrath42 wrote: »
    No meeting organized, so best way to sort that would be to organize one:-)

    Anybody around Saturday evening earlyish?

    I should be around then. Any venue in mind?


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    seanmcgrath42
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭seanmcgrath42


    Pick a time and a place and I will meet you there!


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    Dave Van Ronk
    Registered Users Posts: 342 ✭✭Dave Van Ronk


    seanmcgrath42 wrote: »
    Pick a time and a place and I will meet you there!

    I'm not aware of any suitable place in the city. Do you have any ideas?
    We could try the forge recording studio but there will be a cost involved.


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    seanmcgrath42
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭seanmcgrath42


    I was thinking we could just meet up in a pub/cafe to discuss. If we can get some people together and interested, we will hopefully then be able to throw out ideas for venu. I have a couple of thoughts on it, but would prefer an F2F meeting to get things kicked off.

    Sean


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    Dave Van Ronk
    Registered Users Posts: 342 ✭✭Dave Van Ronk


    PM sent


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    CSeale
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭CSeale


    I was also inretested in this if you guys could let me know when and where you choose to do this


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    seanmcgrath42
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭seanmcgrath42


    CSeale wrote: »
    I was also inretested in this if you guys could let me know when and where you choose to do this

    PM sent.


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    seanmcgrath42
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭seanmcgrath42


    Well. There appears to be some interest. How about a face to face meetup this weekend? Saturday. Padraigs Place, 6pm anyone?

    Sean


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    NauP
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    Sounds interesting. Did ye meet up yet? Met you at a session with Nora in Spideal recently (Bouzouki)


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    seanmcgrath42
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭seanmcgrath42


    Hi!,
    No meetup has happened yet. But 4 people now interested so hopefully we can get something going. I will try for another meetup hopefully next weekend.
    Sean


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    seanmcgrath42
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭seanmcgrath42


    First meetup is next Wed @ 7:30. PM for details.
    seanmcgrath42 wrote: »
    Recently moved back to Ireland from USA and really missing the acoustic folk jam circles. Sitting around in a circle singing and playing 3-4 chord songs and improvising breaks over the chord progression...

    Not much of that going on in Galway from what I can see. Would love to be proved wrong. If not, would be interested in getting something going.


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    seanmcgrath42
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭seanmcgrath42


    First meetup happened last night. Plan is for it to be a regular event. Every Wed at 7:30 in the Youth Building beside Bearna Church. Best way to keep tabs on it is on Facebook page Galway Jam Circle (put galwayjamcircle after facebook.com)


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