The music we heard wafting through the Folk School last week was wonderful! Tune after tune after tune, some Irish, some old time, some genuinely both. Fletcher Bright, Deirdre Ni Chonghaile, Joseph Decosimo, Ken Doyle, Mark Pitner, and Bob Chuckrow came together to rehearse for a house concert in Signal Mountain; a group of people so passionate about tunes and playing, that their “spare tunes” list was even longer than the set list itself! I’m glad that Chattanooga is the kind of city where this work can take place, where musicians from different countries can sit together and explore the common ground (and then stretch to learn something new from each others’ repertoire). It was such a clear picture of music as the catalyst for bringing strangers together as friends. What better reason to keep playing??