{"id":77,"date":"2006-03-25T19:42:45","date_gmt":"2006-03-26T00:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=77"},"modified":"2006-03-31T16:02:48","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T21:02:48","slug":"review-greenwich-meantime-at-murphy%e2%80%99s-inn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/03\/25\/review-greenwich-meantime-at-murphy%e2%80%99s-inn\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Greenwich Meantime at Murphy\u2019s Inn"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nicholas Matthew: Lead Vocals, Guitar
\nSteph McAlear: Drums, percussion, vocals
\nJames Libbey: Highland pipes, whistles, trumpet, keys, vocals
\nShelley Downing: fiddle, mandolin, vocals
\nNigel Gibson: bass guitar
\nManagement: Glen Forrester<\/div>\n

Link: Greenwich Meantime<\/a> \u2014 I checked out the website; these guys have quite a tour schedule!
\nYes, I went out to a concert last night, at Murphy\u2019s Inn, to hear as Gilles put it, \u201cJames Libbey\u2019s band\u201d. That meant quite a bit to me, because, back in their pre-driver\u2019s licence days, for several years I drove my son Peter and Wes\u2019 son James the thirty-five minutes up to Maxville every second Saturday for their piping lessons with the legendary Pipe major J.T. MacKenzie, who for a long time had been the Queen Mum\u2019s Piper. I knew that J.T. gave his students a very rigorous musical education that a sound foundation, both practical and theoretical. In all those years, I never heard James say a word from the back seat. Peter has since become a major piper in Picton, has a CD of his music out (Peter Harry Hill<\/a>). Now I was going to see the payoff for James.<\/p>\n

I wrote about my experience last night, after the concert in \u201cCeltic Music\u201d. Now I would like to talk about the music itself. First, let me confess that much as I would have liked to, I did not stay for the whole concert: I am too old to stand for four hours at the end of a long day, particularly when I had not finished the poem I had started for yesterday (\u201cTakoniweha stops by a tree\u201d). But I did hear the first four numbers.<\/p>\n

Let me say this: Greenwich Meantime is wonderful. Their music was all original, witty, richly arranged, affective, and thoroughly enjoyable, even to my old ears. I was pleased to see Nicholas\u2019 dad, Ernie Sequin, whom I had not seen for years, playing a mean harmonica for a tune Nicholas wrote for him. The musicians are versatile, strong performers, with an alert crowd sense. The production values are strong, even on the limited stage of a somewhat cheesy venue like Murphy\u2019s Inn. I do not know much about bands, have never been interested, even though I am a singer in a barbershop chorus, and taking part in attempting to start a quartet. But when I come across it, I know what I like. So did the overflow house in attendance. Bravo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nicholas Matthew: Lead Vocals, Guitar Steph McAlear: Drums, percussion, vocals James Libbey: Highland pipes, whistles, trumpet, keys, vocals Shelley Downing: fiddle, mandolin, vocals Nigel Gibson: bass guitar Management: Glen Forrester Link: Greenwich Meantime \u2014 I checked out the website; these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}