Monday, November 19, 2007

Melanie O'Reilly Concert

The Melanie O'Reilly Concert on Saturday evening was magical.

Melanie was joined by Sean O'Nuallain (guitar) and Richard Tibbitts (flute, whistle, percussion).

Since Richard lives in the San Diego area they haven't had much time to rehearse. That afternoon they practiced in our living room. Sharon had things to do but I had taken the day off and was able to just sit their and listen, my own private concert. A pleasure to observe good musicians listening and adapting to each other's performance.

We recorded the concert with our MP3 recorder. The audio quality was ok and I will be able to create a private CD of the performance for the musicians using GarageBand (the Mac rocks). I regret that we forgot to preserve Stevie Coyle's concert but we'll make a point of recording all the house concerts from now on.

Melanie and Sean were able to stay overnight and we all enjoyed a very nice leisurely breakfast on Sunday.