Irish Emigrant session migrates.......
August 13, 2007
Shock ! Horror ! Musicians out of work....and that never happens.
After being in place for over a million years, The Irish Emigrant Session has been cancelled. As per usual for bar owners closing down sessions, the new owners waited until the end of the last session to inform people that it was in fact the " last "session". Not for them the common courtesy of saying that the next session would be the last session, thereby allowing the session host, Leo Mc Namara,.. a chance to organize a huge blow-out session to celebrate the eight years he spent hosting it.
Luminaries such as Frankie Gavin, Martin Hayes, Kevin Burke, Danu, Dale Russ,Tom Creegan, Conor Byrne (for fecks sake), Dave Cory, Sara Cory, Damian Werner, Barry Foy, Suzanne Taylor, Hanz Araki, , the New York Phucking Philharmonic all have sat in on this long-running musical gathering.
The denizens of the bar, all twenty-two year old girls and their devilishly-handsome
boyfriends were shocked at the announcement.
Kimberly, a girl with devilishly handsome breasts said "Like Omigawd !...I can't believe it's over....It's like the end of The Gilmore Girls.....or the last episode of Lost " Her devilishly-handsome boyfriend said "like Dude.... it isn't right...I mean , Y'know, like....what are going to do for Irish music now.....it's not like you can buy it on iTunes..."
For the last couple of years Leo was accompanied by guitarist , Biff Mc Gurgle.
Mc Gurgle was devastated and refused to be interviewed for this piece, until we offered him some money and then he wouldn't shut up...
"What am I supposed to do now" he whimpered" I came to this great country to better myself...I traveled by coffin ship and had to eat my shoes to survive and now this.....what are my kids going to do ?...Okay I don't have any kids...but what if I had...No-one cares about my imaginary kids......it's like...Omigawd I'm so not LOL "
McNamara and McGurgle hope to keep their duo together by reworking their old vaudeville routines and were last seen heading for the Catskills.
Leo can be found every Sunday banging out the tunes at Paddy Coyne's
from 6 - 9 PM.