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Jonas Richardson and Gary Arcemont of San Luis Obispo California talk about traditional Irish music sessions, why they love to play music - and what happened when legendary Irish banjo player Mick Moloney turned up unannounced to play with them one day...
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Jonas Richardson and Gary Arcemont of San Luis Obispo California talk about traditional Irish music sessions, why they love to play music - and what happened when legendary Irish banjo player Mick Moloney turned up unannounced to play with them one day...
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RTE (Ireland) May 3rd 2010
Transcript
SESSION AUDIO: (background tuning noises) Is that an ‘E’? That’s an ‘E’. Ear – ear! I want to hear some impressed – ooh, that’s a good ear…
JONAS RICHARDSON: Well, I’m Jonas Richardson and I’m a gardener in town for the last 35 years.
GARY ARCEMONT: My name’s Gary Arcemont, yeah, we’re sitting in a studio in San Luis Obispo right now, for the record.
JONAS RICHARDSON: Every Wednesday in Morro Bay at Blue Sky Deli, we play Irish music, probably 6.30 or something until we get tired of playing music. Sometimes there’s four people, sometimes there’s eight or nine, and we’ve had as many as 15 sometimes. We started off in San Luis Obispo, uh, God I don’t even know how long, it’s been a long time, and then we moved to a couple different bars… years, I don’t know. 10 years? 15 years? It goes way back. So, we’ve been playing music here for a while.
SESSION AUDIO: What was that tune? The Eel...
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