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Folks, It’s been an action packed couple of weeks. On May 18th I was honored to be the keynote speaker at the Southeast Regional Conference of the Folk Alliance at Montreat, NC, and doubly honored to receive a SERFA Award … Continue reading →

For twelve years my wife Carol and I spent the winter months in the tiny village of Killeenaran on the Southeast corner of Galway Bay in Ireland. On our daily walks we would pass by the Larkin Cottage. If the … Continue reading →

Published at Facebook by Jim Rooney · April 27 at 11:06am ·  Tom Rush and I go way back—to 1962. We’ve both been at it a long time, so it’s doubly rewarding to be such good friends and to still be working together. We’re … Continue reading →

January 28, 2018  [used by permission http://www.alanmesser.com/ ] A stellar lineup of Irregulars joined Jim to bring in a new decade of Rooney: “Lonesome” Pat McLaughlin, recently on an extended tour with John Prine and a Dan Auerbach album, much of … Continue reading →

March 18, 2018 I am mourning the loss of one of the great voices in Irish music, the sound of the uilleann pipes as played by Liam O’Flynn. I first met Liam at a festival at Ballysodare in Co. Sligo, … Continue reading →

Published by Jim Rooney · March 6, 2018 · Returned to Vermont last week after three weeks in Ireland to put a cap on my 80th Birthday Celebrations. We enjoyed beautiful clear, crisp Spring weather in Ireland. Daffodils and snowdrops … Continue reading →

It is with a heavy heart that I pass on the news that Pete Kuykendall, a major figure in the Bluegrass world, passed on after a lengthy illness. Pete befriended Bill Keith and me when we met him back in … Continue reading →

In early 1973 I was working on an album at the Bearsville Studio in Woodstock with Eric Von Schmidt. When we were done, Eric and I went down to Brooklyn to deliver the album to Kevin Eggars, who owned Poppy … Continue reading →

[Ed. note:  Bill Keith died on October 23, 2015, soon after this was posted. He had been ill for some time.] Last week I was able to connect with two of my long-time musical families–the Bluegrass Family and the Folk … Continue reading →

This afternoon I heard that Byron Linardos–Byron Lord Linardos–had died. I gathered myself together, went out back to our pond, sat down with some Bacardi Dark Rum (somehow Eric Von Schmidt had shown up) and some Greek olives, looked up … Continue reading →