Saturday, March 17, 2012

Rocky road to Dublin

At this morning’s farmers’ market in Sunnyvale, I wasn’t much surprised to hear Irish tunes emanating from the stall always reserved for some sort of musical group, it being Saint Patrick's Day & all.

I did perk up a bit when I realized that this fella was the source:


(At the time this was shot, he was playing “Down by the Sally Gardens”, rather a favorite of mine.)

I don’t wish to engage in stereotyping, but the musician, Mr. Jiang, did not strike me as being a son of the Ould Sod

Regardless—he’s clearly steeped in the tradition, as he had these CDs for sale:


America, goniff!

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