A Chieftain has passed......

[macliam]

Paddy Moloney, piper, tin whistle player, composer and founder of The Chieftains in 1962, has died, aged 83

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58881862

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdY9CtI5mOA&t=4s

"Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam" -RIP

[blythburgh]

Very sad news but the music lives on so he lives on

[macliam]

I met him about 20 years ago, when I went to a seisiún in North Dublin where a piper I know was taking part. Paddy was treated like the master he was, but no matter how much they asked, he wouldn't play.

He seemed a nice enough guy, but maybe a bit too serious for such an unstructured stage.

[blythburgh]

I met him about 20 years ago, when I went to a seisiún in North Dublin where a piper I know was taking part. Paddy was treated like the master he was, but no matter how much they asked, he wouldn't play.

He seemed a nice enough guy, but maybe a bit too serious for such an unstructured stage.

I suspect he would not play because he did not want anyone to think "I thought (the other players) were great until I hear Paddy now I know they were not that great after all." And that thought would be because he was Paddy Moloney not on the performance they just heard.

[macliam]

I met him about 20 years ago, when I went to a seisiún in North Dublin where a piper I know was taking part. Paddy was treated like the master he was, but no matter how much they asked, he wouldn't play.

He seemed a nice enough guy, but maybe a bit too serious for such an unstructured stage.

I suspect he would not play because he did not want anyone to think "I thought (the other players) were great until I hear Paddy now I know they were not that great after all." And that thought would be because he was Paddy Moloney not on the performance they just heard.

No, he was plainly uncomfortable at the prospect of playing something he had not prepared (as is the norm at a seisiún). Nobody thought ill of it, but there was a tangible disappointment amongst the punters.
Still, he was a great player and a star of the resurgence of Irish traditional music. Intrestingly, he went to school (same class) as the last surviving founding member of the Dubliners. Small world.