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Venue: 'The Session', Stromness Hotel
Music: Scottish folk
Location: The Pier Head, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland
KW16 3AA
Tel: 01856 850 298
Reviewer: Ingirid Jolly
You're spending some time in Stromness? And it's Sunday night? You could do no better than to head for the lounge bar of 'The Stromness Hotel' and experience the fortnightly traditional music session.
 As often in the past I arrived there to find that on a recent Sunday, an unusally large number of singers and musicians had gathered. Some of them had come especially in the hope of meeting and playing with an Irish boxplayer who previously lived here for a year or so.
In true Irish style he arrived late to find the playing well under way. With a few small groups in the company who were very familiar with each other's repertoires, and with some of Orkney's best traditional players present, there were few lulls in the proceedings. The arrival of so many instrumentalists at this session altered the unusually even balance between singing and music. Nevertheless there were a good number of boisterous folk songs as well as a few songs from the sixties and seventies which were equally well received.
Among the sixteen or more players were three fiddlers, three banjos, two accordians, guitars, a harp, a couple of bodhrans, a key board and of course voices. Our Irish friend, much pleased by such a turnout in his honour, had a most convivial evening. We'd looked forward to his individualistic box playing but had to be content with only a few selections as he spent most of the time catching up with news of the last five years.
Due to the patience of the bar staff we eventually left the hotel much later than usual and will remember it as having been a fine night!
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