Sunday 29 January 2017

Sunday 29.1.2017

After two walks this week on freezing cold but dry days - especially on Wednesday, a penetrating heart-attack easterly wind which nearly had us over and necessitated several layers on body, head and hands - today it was about crunching over last night`s snow in shirtsleeves, hatless and gloveless, a diamond-dazzlingly afternoon, the sun ever higher in the sky with real warmth in it though the ground remained frozen for the most part.



Meanwhile and between country walks but involving some city walks it`s been all about the fantastic Celtic Connections, keeping the dark at bay and the best kind of antidote to, let`s say, the world of alternative facts if by any chance you`re needing one, bringing together as it does musicians from all over the world.


Lots of driving up and down, late nights, bleary eyes but it`s been worth it to see:
Banda das Crechas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6vRN4oK6LI)
Billy Bragg & Joe Henry (http://shinealight-joehenry.billybragg.co.uk/)



Anxo Lorenzo trio with Xabier Diaz e Adufeiras do Salitre










not forgetting Barluath (http://barluath.com/)


Phew! And still to come:

James McMurtry with Nathan Bell and Alice Drinks The Kool Aid
Martin Green's FLIT
& the fantastic Treacherous Orchestra with Ezza

All at http://www.celticconnections.com/. Altogether the best way to beat any suggestion of the "winter blues".

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