What a nice memory. I love your tales of adventure, Riobard. Please keep them coming! Loretta McDermott McGinn, daughter of a Butte, Montanan :) In a message dated 11/28/2015 5:07:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, beara@rootsweb.com writes: A few days ago, while clearing out my old tapes, didn't I come across, in one of them, a 10 minutes long part of it which covered a rousing session of music I had in Butte, Montana. Just before Joan & I left Butte for Salt City, Utah, in 1994, I was helping in the making (with Fr. Sars ---- or Sarsfield ---- O'Sullivan) the film "From Beara to Butte". While Joan was out shopping down town, I went to visit John "the Yank" in the Virginia Apartments in Butte. There to meet me were the "Yank" and his nephew Tom Mulcahy. It was on Tuesday Oct. 4th 1994. Tom was after coming in from San Diego, California. The well-known and highly popular "Yank" in Butte would be 92 years old in March 1995. He was very fond of Irish traditional music, and had a very old single-row button accordion. Off went a terrific session. The "Yank" started off with a hornpipe on the accordion, and after that I joined him on my own accordion. Then the "Yank" took up an old fiddle that must have been nearly as old as himself, and started playing "Daisy". It went like this: "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, "Do". I'm half crazy ---- all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, 'cause we can't afford a carriage. But, you'll look sweet going down the street, on a bicyle made for two". [How the people of the time loved that song]. Tom Mulcahy then took up his mouth-organ and gave us a rousing tune. Then the "Yank" started off, on his fiddle, the world-famous, especially among the American people, "Oh Danny Boy". It would bring tears to your eyes. We all joined in ---- the "Yank" and myself on our accordions, and Tom with his mouth-organ, and Tom and myself singing for all we were worth. We weren't up to the standard of the world-famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir, but we tried anyhow. We finished off the session with another hornpipe. It was a mighty session. As the old man at home used say: "Them were the days". Riobard. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message