"The Session"
by Brian Moore (2006,2005)
"The performers are wonderful, lively and imaginative" Daily Ireland
Malachy Flanagan has just come home to the pub to meet his old friend, Dessie, who has lately returned from America. In the pub the musicians are gathering for a session. A session of traditional music - jigs, reels and hornpipes.
Malachy does indeed meet Dessie but he also meets up with Helen, a girlfriend of one of the musicians, and later Rebecca, a visitor from the USA. The four of them talk and drink and, of course, sing. They talk about everything under the sun - war and peace, life and death, and why the barman has taken such a dislike to Malachy.
Meanwhile the musicians are flaking out the jigs and the reels and such is the liveliness of the music that the quartet has no choice but to get up and dance. The laughter and the talk continue with more misunderstandings, misconceptions and disagreements. But then there's always another song, another tune and another dance.
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