[Moo] Pennsic Moment

[Laurie Clarkston]

The Stierbach encampment had the pleasure of his company two Pennsics ago.  He travels from camp to camp "singing for his supper" and sells a few of his CD's along the way.

We enjoyed a lovely afternoon of his entertainment, bought a few CDs and hope he plans to visit us again.

Cairistiona
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marcolo DelMare 
  To: Moo List ; Akeru Thunder 
  Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 3:56 PM
  Subject: [Moo] Pennsic Moment


  I have a Pennsic moment I'd like to share.

  One of the last evenings of Pennsic before I lost my voice but as it was starting to give out, we were sitting in our campsite drinking and singing around the fire.  I was in the middle of a song and I noticed a stranger walk right into our campsite without "Hailing the Camp".  I was watching this person a little concerned about this breach in etiquette. However I noticed he had an instrument strapped to his back and I was busy so I didn't say much.  The stranger came over to our fire, sat down and listened through the next person's song. We then greeted the stranger and wrested from him his name.  He said he was Michael Kelly from An Tir and he camped down the road from us with one of our neighbors.  I pointed out his instrument and asked him to repay hospitality with a song.  He drew out his guitar and played a few songs for us.  This man had the most beautiful lilting voice I'd heard in ages. I was completely blown away.  He sang an origional song about An Tir as well as some traditional Irish songs and a fantasy/sci-fi song his friend wrote.  I asked him if he had a CD and sure enough he had two.  I asked him to recommend one and he said the new one.  The older one was only $10 and had more traditional songs on it but was quite poor sound quality. The newer CD had a couple of modern fantasy/sci-fi songs on it but was overall a better value at $15. I bought the new one and have not been able to stop listening to it.  The most difficult part is that since getting an upper respiratory infection at Pennsic I lost my voice and haven't been able to sing along in the car on my way to work. It has been a very pleasant bit of torture. I wrote Michael an e-mail after getting back and plan on ordering the first CD even if it does have bad sound quality.  I am most definitely a fan. I am including the e-mail he sent me at the bottom of this message in the event that someone else wants to order a copy. Hope you don't mind the shameless plug, but honestly I don't get a commission lol. 

  Marcolo delMare



  bard_mk at yahoo.com  wrote

  Marcolo,
     You're very much welcome. It was my pleasure to stop by and play, and it was good to meet some more of my neighbours up on the hill. I'm happy to hear that you're enjoying the CD.. it's always a good feeling to know that friends are enjoying something that I've made, and that the time put into recording it was well spent. It's my hope to start work on a new recording project sometime soon, though it may be slow going to do while working full time.
     I'd be happy to ship a copy of my first disc out to you. You're correct, the cost of the old one is $10. Shipping is $5, though if you have any friends who are going to be ordering discs, you can save on shipping costs by ordering them together. Beyond packaging and postage costs, the weight of a cd or two is fairly negligable, so it costs me only a little more to ship 2 or 3 in the same bubblewrap envelope than it does to send a single one.
     I can accept paypal (to this email adress) or cheques or money orders payable to Michael Makowichuk (my legal mundane name) sent to:

  Michael Kelly
  4811 Elgin St
  Vancouver, BC
  Canada v5v-4s2

     Whether you go by mail or paypal, please make sure to include a quick reminder of which disc it's for, as well as the mailing adress you want it sent to. Please feel free to write me if you have any questions or comments, and in any case I'll look forward to seeing you and your campmates again next war. Cheers :)

  - Michael Kelly



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