David, I heard you sing and play last month in Boston and was moved by all your songs, but especially "Saint Patrick Battalion", as I had an Irish grandmother who came from Cork as a teenager and I had never heard of John Riley and the battalion. I am busy learning to play it on the ukulele and am trying to gather the courage to play it at my ukulele group's open mic at the end of our practices. I am already known as being politically left by the other members of the group who are practicing to play "God Bless America" and "Armed Forces Medley" at the opening of our local kids' summer camp program on Armed Forces Day, the third Saturday in May. (Sigh.) How to even begin to deal with this blindness? Anyway, I'm signing on for a $5 monthly donation, and wish I could do more, because you have inspired me to try to be a braver person.
David, I heard you sing and play last month in Boston and was moved by all your songs, but especially "Saint Patrick Battalion", as I had an Irish grandmother who came from Cork as a teenager and I had never heard of John Riley and the battalion. I am busy learning to play it on the ukulele and am trying to gather the courage to play it at my ukulele group's open mic at the end of our practices. I am already known as being politically left by the other members of the group who are practicing to play "God Bless America" and "Armed Forces Medley" at the opening of our local kids' summer camp program on Armed Forces Day, the third Saturday in May. (Sigh.) How to even begin to deal with this blindness? Anyway, I'm signing on for a $5 monthly donation, and wish I could do more, because you have inspired me to try to be a braver person.