“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” ― George Bernard Shaw
The story...so far. It seems so long ago now back to Jan 1st 2018 when we first began the Meitheal Ceol SongBook Project in order to support and facilitate everyone who is interested in Singing and Playing along together, with all of the Magic, Craic, Comhluadar, Cairdeas and Folláine an Duine (personal wellbeing) that comes naturally with the SingSong. The first Volume of Songs ‘365 Songs...Your I-a-Day’ in 2018 was followed up by Volume two, ‘The Ones that Got Away’ in June 2019. The feedback from users and singers on both books was a wonderful affirmation of the success of our vision and efforts. While travelling down along the Wild Atlantic Way from West Donegal all the way round to Rosslare and then through Brittany in late Autumn 2019, we met up with and had great Singsongs with fellow motorhomers and locals, with friends in West Cork, sang along with strangers, with open water swimmers like the Lough Hyne Lappers, with visitors to Ireland and those we met in France. We had brought books with us and dropped them off personally, making new Friends along the way. Singing together from a common book proved to be a fluid, pleasurable experience for all. We were also introduced to a number of new Songs as we travelled and sang and while in Brittany, we noted that we had forgotten to include the lovely ‘Lost in France’ in the first two volumes. And so, at the turn of the year in early 2020, we embarked on the final volume of our Songbook Trilogy, which we aptly titled ‘Ones That Got Under The Radar’, gathering together many of the suggestions from our Community of fellow singers, songs from and with memories, stories and experiences.
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