Saint Patrick’s Day weekend was musical and busy for me. BYNRIE, the MMO’s Irish ensemble, played the prelude and the offertory for the Saturday mass at the Cathedral of Saint Paul and a fund raiser for MMO and Sherry Ladig, our composer, cheerleader, and musical guru, at Saint Anthony Lutheran Church on Saint Pat’s proper.

It’s not common to traditional Irish music, but neither are mandolins and we have so much enthusiasm, Sherry composed harmonies for our set list of jig, reel, and hornpipe medleys, as well as arranged some airs for us. Email me if you would like the dots for anything from the set list.

• Off to California/Boys of Bluehill/Harvest Home
• Inisheer
• Gravel Walks/Silver Spear/Boyne Hunt
• Katherine O’More
• Blarney Pilgrim/Tripping Upstairs/Banish Misfortune
• The Butterfly
• Maid at the Bar/Star of Munster/Congress
• Down by the Sally Gardens
• Madeline Island (by Sherry Ladig)
• Coleraine/Connaughtman’s/Carmody’s
• Drowsy Maggie/Dunmore Lasses
• Eileen Collins (by Sherry Ladig)
• The Kesh Jig
• Cup of Tea/Cooley’s/Glory
• Londonderry Air

Look out for BYNRIE to play at the 2019 Art Flare Northeast art festival.