{"id":6093,"date":"2009-08-08T14:38:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T19:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2009\/08\/08\/wren_song_s_upcoming_performance\/"},"modified":"2009-08-08T14:38:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T19:38:54","slug":"wren_song_s_upcoming_performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2009\/08\/08\/wren_song_s_upcoming_performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Wren Song’s Upcoming Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

My children’s Celtic band, Wren Song<\/a>, will be performing this month at the St. Louis Festival of Nations<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Wren<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Admission is free!<\/strong> So anyone in the area, come down, meet us, and hear some excellent music. We’ll be at the Folk Grove stage at 10:00am on Saturday, August 29th, 2009.<\/p>\n

And yes, I’ll again be performing one song with them.<\/strong> You can close your ears for that song if you wish!<\/p>\n

I had hoped to be involved in more of the music<\/strong>, but my mandolin has been a bit dusty these past few months. This is because I’ve been trying to learn to play guitar all over again.<\/p>\n

If I already know guitar, why do I have to learn it again?<\/strong> It’s because I have re-tuned to DADGAD, which is radically different from the normal guitar tuning, and this meant I’ve had to throw out everything I knew with my left hand.<\/p>\n

Now, this has set me back, but the benefits are intriguing.<\/strong> A guitar tuned DADGAD just sounds so beautiful. The three D strings really give it a bagpipe-drone sound, and many of the chords you play are only one or two fingers.<\/p>\n

\"Accompanying<\/a><\/div>\n

I’ve also been learning a new style of playing<\/strong>, which is designed for backing up Irish tunes. The book I bought is “Accompanying Irish Music On Guitar<\/a><\/strong>” by Frank Kilkelly. This is an excellent book, and I highly recommend it. DADGAD playing is also prominently featured.<\/p>\n

One warning, however, is that the “Accompanying Irish Music On Guitar” as sold through Amazon does not come with the accompanying CD.<\/strong> I had to buy this through Mel-Bay or else get a used copy. Thankfully I live only a 10 minute drive from Mel-Bay’s headquarters and warehouse, so that wasn’t a problem!<\/p>\n

So will I be playing my mandolin, or guitar, you ask?<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Good question. I don’t now yet. We have a great mandolin song picked out that I play “dueling” with my 8 year old daughter’s fiddle. But Ness also has another song which I am working on backing up with the guitar, so we’ll see. We have the first verse down, but I need to figure out the second.<\/p>\n

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