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I heard Irish music for the first time when I was 17 Years of age. "Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers" played on the grammophone - and I was completely "sold" - the sound and soul in that music was the best I ever have heard.
Shortly after that I listned to "The Dubliners" who was really in at that time, they were extremely popular, and I do understand that. After having listened to "Barney McKenna" on the banjo, and the fact that I liked the banjo-sound (from jazz), I bought a banjo at the age of 25. I was practising (it was quite difficult when you had to figure it all out yourself) together with "The Dubliners" - in my livingroom. By the way - later on I got my nickname 'mckenna' for the same reason, of a good friend of mine Svend Kjeldsen - bodhran player in "Moving Cloud".
I was going in the right direction, and in the early 80's I met a couple of guys and girls who also played Irish music, and we met once a week - in privat - to play music. More people was joining us, and we decided to move to "Færgekroen", a pub in Århus, where the start of the weekly irish sessions was established in 1983, and continued there till the late 90's, where we moved to the Irish pub "Paddy go Easy" where it happened Sunday afternoon until august 2004. Now we have moved again to a new irish pub "Tir na nóg", and still sunday afternoon.
In 1988 I was one of the founders of the very popular band "Moving Cloud" from Århus (DK), and I played in the Band about 4 years, and then I stopped, but they are still going strong. Now I play in different bands as "Den Irske Duo", "Aarhus All Star Céilà Band", "Aarhus Céilà Trio" and "Tullamore Tales".
On this video (recorded with mobile phone - bad quality) You can listen to a set of tunes played by - from the left: my son Søren Gyllström: Guitar, Tim Edey: Box, and Christopher Davis Maack: Fiddle at theCopenhagen Irish festival 2006
