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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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Frank Kilkelly Frank Kilkelly wrote on December 8, 2020 at 10:50 am
Joe couldn’t make it to my wedding in 1998, but he sent two harmonicas and this note. The note went missing for years, I’m so glad to have found it just now. "Mouth organs, moothies, harps, harmonikas, are good because: they fit in your pocket they don’t need to be tuned You can play them whilst riding a bicycle, driving a car, playing a guitar, riding a horse or camel, skating or waiting at bus or train station, airport, traffic lights or ferry ports. They convert frustrating dead time to golden moments. They take the pressure off your music making. People, often including the player, don’t expect much from 24 little reeds. Even experienced musicians, having spent 20 years mastering the fiddle can raise smiles with 'Oh Susanna' on a moothey. So play on in time, rhythm and harmony for the rest of your lives. May the music of your matrimony be mighty, the chords of your coupling be augmented and the mambo of marriage marvellous." I love this archive - it's so in Joe's style, and a great resource, free for all to share, as Joe would have wanted. Thanks to all involved in putting it together. What a great man he was.
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