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Memories of Joe

Just before we put up this new version of the site, I emailed some likely friends and posted on Facebook in an appeal for some good photos of Joe fiddling. It was unsurprising, but still moving, to feel the warmth of people’s response and great to see pictures, quite a few which I had never seen before. So, this page is a place for us to put such photos and any written memories people want to send to us to share. There are a few tunes that people have written in tribute to Joe which we will make a place for here. My memory of Joe at sessions was always that he not only could be a mighty ‘tune-engine’, but that he was good at remembering or sussing out what tunes the whole room would know. He could bring a room together.

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Pete Challoner Pete Challoner wrote on December 17, 2020 at 6:25 pm
Lovely to read these memories and Gill's post particularly tripped my nostalgia meter into the red. It reminded me of a poem I wrote about those times, most of which I've forgotten but it started; Late and lugging back some village hall, All excited at the thought of glow and craic, You opened in and fired and fixed us all, And struck up tunes and pushed the real world back. Those nights were driven strumming to the birds and the rest I forget but thanks again Gill, Kate, Chris and Viv.
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