{"id":934,"date":"2007-09-29T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=934"},"modified":"2007-09-29T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T18:19:00","slug":"the-wind-that-shakes-the-pine-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"The Wind that Shakes the Pine Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a sunny day with a brisk wind blowing. Pine needles are in the air. M. and I both slept in a little last night after returning at midnight from one of the Spanish Peaks International Celtic Music Festival<\/a> concerts.<\/p>\n

We went to one last year too, to hear Kim Robertson’s<\/a> harp and to watch Jerry O’Sullivan fight the uilleann pipes and win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s truly a little odd to hear stars of the Celtic music scene play in the old coal-mining town of Walsenburg<\/a>, which is definitely in the non-fashionable part of Colorado<\/a>, for all that they are trying to promote it now as “gateway to the Southwest.” <\/p>\n

Last night the harpist was Lynn Saoirse<\/a>, while Seamus Connolly<\/a> played fiddle and emceed. Add cellist Abby Newton<\/a>, her fiddler daughter Rosie, Connolly’s Maine neighbor Kevin McElroy, John Mullen, and the duo of Kim McKee and Ken Willson<\/a>, who have moved to the area and whom my Celtic music-loving colleague wants to bring to campus.<\/p>\n

Now: house-cleaning, cabin-cleaning, desk-cleaning, and somewhere I there I have to read essays from my creative-nonfiction class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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