 Did you? About a year? Yeah, yeah, we were a band, like when you were school, like of course you were in the second school, but then probably in the early 20s we were a band called Alza Menace, they were guys all from a town, great memories, all dead counties and conflict and a bit of Boscox. For example, who would you admire most in that Boscox? Undertones for me, no. Undertones high, but like when you get older, or you get something more punky, you get something more heavier kind of stuff, like exploited and all that kind of crack. Like it was a brilliant festival there this weekend, down the RCC. Outcast was down out. Oh, right, right, I had something about that, how'd that go? Very good now, good feedback. And the punk scene sort of, about, we're still living, we're still living. Not as mad on the stage as we were. No, no, we can't have saddened about you. I'm very good. But come here, the boys are doing well, the expedition are doing great. They're doing good either. Great sound like, they work well. The hard working, they're doing a wee tour coming up now, maybe you're hitting Brea Maribou up here, so they're having some cup puppets or doing a wee tour around Ireland in the summer. Ah, that's brilliant. Can only be positive. I just want to go on these individuals. How long are you playing the squeeze, I don't know what I'm going to call it, squeeze or accordion, is it? I would have played and through the march, the girls went through traditional music. I would have learned my instruments through the marching bands in that era, yeah. So probably about 13, so I was talking to Mary earlier. Probably 1981 was the formation of the convoy band. So that was the band. And that was a big thing at the time. And I hadn't played on that maybe for four or five years. And then maybe about 10 years ago, Cairnbough made this accordion, not this one, another one for Christmas or the box that Christmas morning opened it up. And I suppose it's like riding a bike. Just sort of back and did I. Did you miss it? Had you missed it? I suppose life, he got us, he just moved on. And then, as I say, when Cairnbough did then, it just did come back to you. And I think me and Mary was talking a lot about the bands. Mary was in the Emerald band. Yeah, Emerald band. And it's, it brought back a lot of memories to us. And good memories. And good memories. That's what it's all about. It was great. Are you enjoying this now? Yeah, I came in, the girls were, they were Cairnbough and the girls were at it before the traditional site, before myself. And then, I can't remember when, a couple of years after, maybe I joined and... I can't make it too far away. No. At least you can get out. Very good. That's good. Eunice and I will continue. How long's the formation? How long have you been formed? 12 years or so. Yeah, but a little after. So, where were I? Yeah. This is, well, kind of met through the class. Yeah. And then this is, we've done the score. Where is the, where, where's Emerald band, Mary? The Emerald band, the, so I was in the Lettercanny, Emerald band. Oh, Lettercanny. And it, yeah, so it, it has ceased to exist. I don't know what year it dissolved now. But my, I would have been the Emerald band. And Eunice would have been in the Convoy band. And then the other band in our section, in the Donnie Gull, Martin bands category, would have been the Drum Keen band. So at competitions, you know, throughout the county and throughout Ireland, you know, we would have been competing against each other. And so, yes, why would have been in it around the same time as you race? Yeah. You're not involved in it any more, are you? Not involved in it any more. I would have left it then in my teens and then didn't pick up the accordion then for about 20 years. Wow. And then I was enrolling then, enrolling my daughter into music with Paul Harrigan at Cook's on the Killio there. And I happened to say to him, would you be, you know, would you take on an adult class? And he said he would. So we put out the feelers of myself and Mary Rose used to go to the same traditional music class years and years ago. And so it was through that that I went back to Trad but my days in the marching band, I left that probably in about 1991, I think it was. Excellent. And you're enjoying this? I'm enjoying it, I am. Love the Trad. Love the Grac. Love the Trad. Love the Trad. Love the Trad. There's nights we chat more than we play. Well, there's no honour on that, you know. Very therapeutic. Very therapeutic. It's all through the mind. It's not under any of the gossip, you know what I mean? And, Mary, yourself in the band, how long have you been playing the fiddle and stuff like that? Playing the fiddle. Playing the fiddle. We started when my other sister, definitely the three of us used to play together. It started about nine or ten. You played together the three of you? The three of us. The three of us played as a family. We played together. McCordier and Tentwaslin. Excellent. Then I got the fiddle then. My aunt brought the fiddle from America back a number of years ago, so I took a few lessons on that. And you just went for it, yeah. I love fiddles. I love looking at them, and they always seem to be great characters. I'm wondering, is that an old one? It's pretty old. It's pretty old, yeah, it is. You'd be amazed how many people will come up here, you know, and the fiddle, they're old fiddles that they have. Yeah, it has the one she brought back when in the 60s, early 70s, she brought it back from... That's the one she brought back? The one she brought back, yeah. Wow. Yeah, so we played then for... Clear routines? Clear coltas, replayed routines. I gave it up then when it was about, say, 17, 18, went to work on Dublin, and the fiddle lay up in the press for 35 years. No way! Until we joined. And how did you find that, you know, clicking once again, like riding a bicycle? Yeah, it just comes back, it comes back to you. Class? Ah, it's brilliant. And you're enjoying it, obviously. Loving it, yeah. Ah, it's brilliant. And Anne, yourself? Yeah. Because your sister's obviously, you know... And what instrument do you play? I started off with the tin whistle, and it took up the fiddle then a few years ago as well. Are you self-taught now, or...? No, we went with the tin whistle. I suppose we learned when we were young, just, and kept it up. And then with the fiddle then, I tried to do a few lessons when I was around my 20s with that, and I was then like that. Life got busy. You had your own family. I know. And give it up again. So took it back up then, just bought a fiddle when I went to Paul, our against class again, and took it up from there. And obviously you're enjoying it. Oh, lovely. Do you see when you go away from it for a period of time you come back on it, do you get more out of it then? Is it... Do you value it more? You've more time for it. It's not a hobby. No pressure, I guess. You're not being sent by your parents to class. It's like you're going by your own permission. I know. Mary Rose, yourself there, you're on the... I was at... I was going to call a flute. I called something up. How long are you playing that? Well, I suppose I started the music when I was about seven, and I went to lessons, actually, myself and Mary used to go to the same teacher. She was... Tristan McClure was her name, and she was a Bunkrana woman. And she used to do it in Letter of Kenny on a Friday evening. And so we went to the lessons there, and she had a group in Bunkrana, and she had a group in Letter of Kenny. So then when it came to the Flakiole time, she would amalgamate the two groups, and she would pick for the, you know, the groupie keel, and for the bands or whatever she would pick from the two groups. So Paul Harrigan, who's currently our teacher, was in the other group down in Bunkrana, and we used to eat in the Flas together. So I gave it up then when I was about 15, maybe. And then I... I'm a teacher out in Glenswally, and I used to teach that to muscle and all the time to the older classes. And then I really hadn't played myself until after my youngest child was born, and like that, I got a present from my husband of the flit. So I started doing lessons, and then Mary's child and my child were in the one class. She sent a message to say that the lessons were starting up, so that's how I started back into it. There's a tiny coincidence there, isn't there? It was a lot, and funny enough, I would have... and a lot of the people that started back at the lessons would have been at the original lessons, except for Paul was the teacher, and we were the students of that. You know, for some of the stories, you're going to be leaving it for a long time. I think the teenage years, and you kind of become preoccupied with other things, and then you come back to it when you're 10. Was the Flak Hulls nor was it competitive? Was the pressure on you? Well, there wasn't pressure, it was enjoyable, because at that time you kind of... you were oblivious to stress, really, you know. And we would have went down to... we went to two All-Irelands, I remember so well. It was a big journey down to Kilkenny, and we went up to the Dublin Hotel. I think it was the Derrickville, and we stayed there overnight and went down to Kilkenny the next day, and the following year we went to the stall, and the crack was mighty, and you're always competing against the same kind of groups. You know, that kind of was. So the competition would have been big, but it would have been a bit of crack, you know, the same way. Brilliant. Would you encourage young people to take it up? I think it's a great way of socialising, I really do. And even some of the group here would go to the Coltas sessions in Latterkenny, you know. And there's young people there. It's a great way of socialising and meeting people, and especially when you go to college. But you see, you know, and she's done so much, you know, I always take it with you like you can pop open it. If you're sitting somewhere and someone is out of fiddler, you know, it's going to be a nice crack. Is that a nice pronouncement? It's like Keven. Keven Boyle. Up the tailors. And who's this? Johnny B's Lance. You're all brilliant. I'm Swally Bridget and John. David Doherty says you're fabulous, guys. And Patricia Higgardy says, well done to you all. And Christy Murray, well done, folks. Enjoying the vibe. Patricia Gallagher says, well done. Paul Harrigan's on there. He says, you're sounding great. And Stella Doherty was the one from Bunkranna and said, big shout out from Bunkranna. Are you from Bunkranna, no? No. I was at your house. Very good. Well, come here. We'd love to get another piece of music and chat more. Because it's a lovely story. You know, it's a lovely story how it's come together. But the next piece of music is going to do first is what? No, do you know what it'll do? It'll take an ad break. And we'll come back with, what'll it be? Big shout out to Jimmy Ward. Brilliant. After this break, don't go away. If you're with FBD Insurance and your van gets robbed, it's not a flippant, blooming disaster. That's not what FBD stands for. FBD stands for support. 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