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Saturday, July 29, 2006

Fermo, Italy

Just a quick note to say how impressed we were with the new lineup of The Birkintree at their concert in Fermo last week. We flew over for the day - via Stansted, to Ancona, and were driven the hour journey to Fermo - and we flew home the next day! But it was well worth all the travelling.

Myself and Graham have been doing concerts with The Birkintree www.birkintree.com for about 6 years now, and they are always enjoyable. At this wonderful concert in Fermo, the line up included the Fabio Vernizzi Trio www.fabiovernizzi.it - and of course the usual four regular musicians, Fabio, Michel, Davis and Danielle. The music was outstanding. Also on tour with the Birtkintree at the same time, were Cyril O'Donoghue and Tony O'Connell, two of my favourite musicians. I've been listening to Cyril for over 20 years and would never tire of his beautiful voice and his treatment of songs. About 7 years ago I heard Tony for the first time in Milltown Malbay and was blown away by his musicianship - checkout http://www.musictocam.com . So it was with great pleasure all eleven of us were on stage. Oh - and the food was incredible as always!

1 Comments:

  • At 8/03/2006 11:13:00 a.m., Blogger serre said…

    Awww! I'm so sad I lost your performance in Italy! Must have been awesome as usual!
    I've seen you and Dunn with the Birkin Tree last year, and it has been wonderful! (and you signed my CDs so thanks a lot!)
    I hope to see you in Italy again this year... hopefully near Genova!

    Serena

     

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