We've been looking for them for months, searching countless websites that promised live music every Monday, Thursday or whatever, only to find that they don't, spending some gawdawful evenings in crowded touristy pubs , trying in vain to find "where the good sessions are".
It's taken near half a year, but finally we've found them. Fridays at Cork's Inn, altnerate Fridays at the Druid's Den, monthly at Flann O'Briens and the occasional get together at the Abbey Road Theatre Granted, the tunes are all trad Irish, and cater to a more mainstream set of tastes than the English pieces we've known. But real sessions, packed with Italians who speak badly broken english but sing with accents of pure scots, or soaring lilting Irish. Their fingers fly across fiddles and whistles and their welcome for new musicians like us has been heartwarming. Ants is even starting to swing the occasional offer of a paid gig.
They've proved once and or all that music knows no barriers, reaching out across countries and cultures, hangups and hesitations.
For me, Rome's folkie folks are my first Italian friends in italy, and I suddenly feel more at home.
(ta Marzio for the pic...)
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