Mike – this is awesome!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to preserve these songs! The memories evoked are priceless. xoxo Sarah

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Very nice.
I used to frequent the harp and thistle pub in the mid 80.s every friday and saturday night. Gerry taught me to play the Bohdran and I teach now to others.
Miss the man. I hope we find him soon.

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Thanks a lot for the music and memories. My wife and I met at the Welli in 1994 while going to school in Kingston. We’ve always wondered what happened to Gerry and hope he’s doing well.

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Glad to see (and read) that people are visiting. I’ve got a stat tracker for the blog, and I’ve seen a fair number of downloads. It’s a little surprising just how often people search for Gerry O’Kane, although there appears to be a financial journalist by the same name, so who knows if they were really looking for *our* Gerry.

Spread the word!

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This is so great…thank you very much for sharing this! I’ve still got my autographed copy from Gerry of the cassette…but nothing to play it on now! I’m loving this…thanks very much!

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This is fabulous Mike – really takes me back to all those great nights with great friends! Thanks for taking the time to make this and for sharing it with us – what fun!

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Thank you so much for this. As a member of the Queen’s Bands (’88-92) I spent many an evening at the Wellington listening to Gerry. Brings back great memories!

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Wow…I’m almost crying; this brings back so many memories. In my mind Gerry O’Kane is almost a mythical character–like a leprechaun perhaps because I was always a little tipsy at the Wellington? Anyway; does anyone know what happened to him? I’d love to know!

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This is great all! I’m really happy to have brought back memories for people. Here’s one for you: in the recording of Tim Finnegan’s Wake, every time the end of the clapping section is missed I hear people yelling something that sounds like “Morris”. Was this guy a regular? It sounds like he couldn’t get the song that night, that’s for sure!

Mike

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I have been looking for copies of this for ages! I bought two copies of the tape from Gerry himself during my time in Kingston, but one was a gift and the other got lost somewhere through the many cities and years that have passed since then. Thank you very much!

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Sarah got MARRIED?! but it was just the other day that she had her 19th at the Welly (after having been a regular for the better part of a year, maybe more. Bad Doorman.).. Yeah: that’s a good couple years, meeting a good bunch of people.. ‘Course, now I’m old, but so are ALL OF YOU!

Cheers, guys!

-Randy

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..and:

http://theirishballad.blogspot.com/2006/08/gerry-okane-live-at-wellington.html

-R

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I met Gerry back in 1985 when he played at the Toucan. Several members of the Queen’s Bands were among the first to become his regulars and we convinced him to let us dance a fling and play some pipe tunes between sets — a tradition that continued for many, many years. He was a good friend and we spent many hours talking over pints. I continued to be a “regular” for 8+ years until I moved to London, ON… but whenever I returned to Kingston I would go to the Welly and Gerry would motion me to the front of the line and let me in and then play The Irish Ballad (my favourite tune and he never forgot).

Thank you so much for converting the tape to MP3 — this is a great find. I did bump in to Gerry after he sold the Welly and he indicated that he was moving to Boston. I hear he is now in Belfast. I miss his songs and the talks over pints.

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speechless. wicked.

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I remember Gerry from the late 70′s in Detroit. He and many others would come over to my parent’s house for swimming, eating, drinking, and of course music! I have often wondered what became of him. Thank you for downloading his music. I look forward to enjoying it ASAP!

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Thanks so much for uploading these! I recently shared some of his songs with people who wanted to know if he had other stuff out there, and I was so glad to point them here.

I only heard Gerry perform a few times, but always remembered him fondly and wish I’d been a regular at the Welli. Sadly, the only time I went, the guys I was with were involved in a bit of a scuffle. Toga-clad Queen’s dudes v. RMC cadets. Gerry was in the middle of singing “What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?” and changed one verse to “drunken Romans” just for us. Awwww…

I met him a few years later at a Life Drawing class, where I was drawing and occasionally modelling. So it’s possible that somewhere Gerry O’Kane has a nudie drawing of me. I, OTOH, have his tape, bought from him in class. I’d say I got the better deal

Hope he’s doing well in Belfast. And if he stumbles across this page… Hi Gerry! You’re still remembered, and much missed!

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Someone named “The Publican” left some info on Gerry, but it also sounded quite personal in nature, so I removed it seeing as this site is open to the world. Thanks for the info; it was much appreciated, but this probably isn’t the place.

Mike

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Wow, thank you Mike! I was just asking around work to try and gather the technology to convert my own tape to mp3 when I thought I’d do another Google on Gerry. This is fantastic!!! Nights at the Welly were part of the most memorable times in Kingston, and Gerry was intrinsic to those moments.
Cheers to everyone who cheered and sang and clapped along and danced to Gerry O’kane. I hope he is well and I hope he knows how much he is treasured. (Hi Sarah K, hi Becky Brown, Hi Randy!!!)

PS. Mike, I’d love to hear the details that you removed if you wouldn’t mind emailing them to me. Pretty please?

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Cheers. Thanks for this!

Those songs – in that voice – really bring back the memories.

And yeah, I’d love to know if Gerry really is in Belfast.

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Wow Mike! Many thanks to you and Becky for this. I spent many a night in the late 1990′s at the Welly. I’d lost my copy of the tape, and now it’s great to be able to hear Gerry’s voice again!

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Thank-you so much for posting these songs. I have been looking for years how to get a hold of them. I had a tape but over the years it got ruined I remember going to the pub on the weekends during the summer and listening to Gerry Good times!

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I started courting my wife at the Welly back in the 90′s down there listening to Gerry. I can remember her getting me up and dancing (we were the only ones dancing) while Gerry sang House of the Rising Sun… our song to this day! Thanks Gerry for the fun! and Thank you Mike for this site and these songs.

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Wow, the comments keep rolling in. I can’t believe how many people this has made happy! I hope Gerry knows the impact he made. Thanks for all the comments guys!

Mike

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Thanks so much for doing this. Gerry is a big part of my memories of my Queen’s student days and I often think of him fondly. I’ll enjoy listening to him again and will pass on this website to other friends who I know will enjoy it.

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Thank you so much for posting this–I google Gerry every year or so to try to find out where he went, and how I might get another copy of “Live at the Wellington”. I used mine for many years to teach a unit on the ballad to Grade 10 English students, and it went missing a few years ago. You have totally made my day! As a member of Queen’s Bands in the early 90s, I spent MANY nights at the Welly singing along to Gerry; when I became engaged, he announced it to the pub and played “Black Velvet Band” for us. If you end up finding this page, Gerry, thanks so much for the wonderful memories!

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I echo everyone’s sentiments about Gerry, and to you Mike for the work converting the tape to MP3s. Good thing Sarah got married, or we’d never have the songs on MP3! I just can’t believe I still have my cassette almost 15 years later. Or that I still have a cassette player.

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I think I might have been in the crowd at recording, actually. Someone was recording something by the looks of it. Can’t recall though, since it was 17 years ago and I was rather drunk at the time.

I’m burning this on CD to give to my Japanese exchange students at their “O’Sayonara” closing party tomorrow.

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this is the best. i lost my tape too. i was sent this link today, what a good st patrick’s day surprise.

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Happy St. Patrick’s day, Gerry fans!

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I keep looking on google every once & a while in the hope of finding Gerry. A ship mate & I took a small boom box into the pub on a couple occasions back in the late 80′s to secretly record the songs. Still have those tapes. I should transfer them one of these days. Great stuff. Lots of fun until we were bleary eyed.

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Wow. Does this all bring back memories. Kingston in the early ’90s. Weekends at the Wellington. Now I learn the Wellington is no more and Gerry O’Kane has disappeared into legend…

Thanks for putting up those mp3s. I haven’t seen my Gerry tape in at least a decade.

I hope all’s well with you, Mike. Of everyone in Brock, your year (I think of you guys as “second years”) were my favorite group of people.

- Paul C

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I first heard him in ’95 when I was on course with the military in kingston. We spent many a night at the wellington listening to him. He was the person who made me fall in love with Irish music. I was really upset when my tape finally broke and could not be repaired. Thanks for posting this download. Can’t wait for summer and bonfires…….MACINTYRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Love this. I still have my cassette, but it is worn thin from years of use. Many thanks for putting the mp3s together. Like everyone else, I think back fondly on those nights at the Welly. Week in and week out, and I couldn’t get enough of it then, and I can’t get any of it now – they don’t make ‘em like Gerry anymore.

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Every Friday and sometimes Saurday night ffrom 1995 to 2002, I was there. I miss those nights SO much. Thank you for this. I dated a girl whose mom was part owner of the Welly. I cried when it went away.

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For two years in the mid 80s, we went to the Harp and Thistle on St Pete Beach, Florida to hear Gerry. To this day we still talk about him and wonder where he is. I have several tapes and believe it or not a record he did. His fans in Florida miss him. He left a big void when he left.

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Thanks so much for this – it brings back so many good memories of nights spent at the Wellie (plus, the tape version of this release that I purchased is worn out [LOL])

I wish there was still a pub with similar entertainment in Kingston – I’m going there on vacation this weekend. A friend and I visited the Wellie after it was sold for the first time and it just wasn’t the same.

Take care!

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Becky Brown was my housemate – I miss Gerry – thanks for posting

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Mike, thanks so much for sharing. In the 70′s, I spent many an enjoyable evening at the Gaelic League in Detroit enjoying the music of Gerry O’Kane and Noel Lenaghan, performing together as Rakish Paddy. Thanks for bringing back those memories. Gerry, wherever you are, I hope you’re still making music.

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Thanks so much for this walk down memory lane…we might have crossed paths in the days of Gerry O’Kane at the Welli as my friends and I frequented and sang loudly during the same time period as you! I always asked for the Irish Ballad – so much so that Gerry would say “I know, I know…” and would just start to play the song!

I’ll be burning this CD for my friend’s 38th birthday this August – relive the ‘good old days’

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Wow! July has been Gerry O’Kane month! Six comments so far… how many more have found this page and not left a comment? That’s great, and I’m glad everyone is loving the music. Thanks for the kind words!

Mike

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I saw Gerry regularly when I was at CFB Kingston – CFSCE for training back in 1993 or thereabouts. Amazing voice! I had this tape and wore it out, so thanks for posting it! The Wellington is gone now, and so is Gerry. What memories!

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When I lived in Kingston, I used to go see Gerry at the Wellington. What ever became of him???

I miss the live Irish music in Kingston. Is there anything CLOSE to Gerry’s sessions at the Welly?

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Echoing everyone else in the sincere thanks for making these songs available. I was in grad school at Queen’s from 1997-2002, and have many a fine memory of seeing Gerry at the Wellie. I also had the cassette, which I used to play so much whenever I had to take a long drive on the 401. It eventually melted and warped in my hot car, and I’ve been looking ever since for the CD on eBay, but it never turns up.

This made my week getting to hear this album again!

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THANK YOU I was a regular at he Harp & Thisle and have been looking Gerry for awhile I miss him MUCH.

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Thanks for the memories Mike. So many great memories. I have forwarded this on to about a dozen people (some of whom I haven’t looked up in years) who will all fondly remember great times with Gerry at the Welly.

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Thanks so much for making these songs available, Mike! I used to love frequenting the Wellington in the mid-90s and was so sad when it closed. I had a copy of the tape but it got lost years ago. I’ve often wished I could hear the songs again and tonight, when on a whim I googled Gerry O’Kane’s name, up came your site. Thanks a lot!

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I saw Gerry at The Toucan, and often at the Brew Pub, which no one else has mentioned here, and then at the Wellington, when he left the Brew Pub to strike out on his own and own a piece of the restaurant. This was between 1988-1992. I remember the waitresses at the Brew Pub teaching the RMC boys how to tip by taking their 25 cent tips and dropping them in their pint glasses (true and the waitresses planned this every September with each new group of newcomers). I remember many a girl trying Guinness for the first time, including an old girlfriend of mine. Interesting to read that he had been in Detroit and Florida, beforehand, and then went to Boston and may have ended up in Belfast.

He would have to be in his late 70′s now. What do others things?

Thanks for posting these MP3s. You mentioned that someone posted about what happened with Gerry but that it was personal in nature so you removed it. Without mentioning any of the personal content, can you tell us anything you might know from that post.

Again, thanks for posting.

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I went to see Gerry at the Wellington fairly regularly between 1992 and 1995 – I also remember him playing an outdoor concert near Grant Hall during frosh week of 90 or maybe 91. He was kind enough to take requests at that time including a Stan Rogers’ song that was not Barrett’s Privateers. Much later – around 1998 or so – i was coming through kingston on the way back from a ski trip. The girl I was with (an ex-Bandsie who spent lots of time at the pub) and I decided to see if we could get into the Wellington to see Gerry for old times’ sake. However, it was St. Patrick’s Day and it quickly became obvious we would not get in. So we went off to find other fun – we did find other fun and now are married with two kids. Ironically, our getting together can be directly attributed to the fact we couldn’t get in to see Gerry and had to find other amusements – so in a very weird way I owe him one for being so damn popular at the time.

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oh – I see a Drake on the posters list – that you Rod?

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Like everyone else, great memories of a long-ago time. I was in Kingston for 6 months or so in ’95 I think it was, an Aussie doing a semester at Queen’s, latched onto Sci’99 and had a great time, including many wonderful nights at the Welly. Gerry was good enough to play “The Band Played Waltzing Matilda” for me several times, having worked out where I was from, and it does indeed still bring a tear to my eye.

Had my going-away party there and Gerry signed a copy of his tape for me “Remember, you’ll always have lots of friends at The Welly”. Not sure where the tape is now but I still remember the night.

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OK, so I guess between the Florida years and his time in Canada there was New Hampshire, where I remember seeing Gerry quite often at the pub Kathleen Ni’Houlihan’s in Nashua. Thank you so very much for the songs, which are going on my iPod immediately It’s so wonderful, and really not so surprising, how many people are appreciative of Gerry and his talent. He is loved and missed and I hope he knows it!!

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Mike – love your work in putting these up. I gave my only copy of the Gerry O’Kane tape to my girlfriend at the time (Cathy – you may have met her), and have longed for his music ever since. Gerry was also popular with my family – my mother has a copy of his tape.

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WOW! What a find. I was a piper in the Queen’s Bands in the early 90′s and spent more nights at the Welly than I can even begin to remember, and likely a few that I don’t remember. We love his music, we enjoyed playing tunes between his sets, and we loved the free pass that our pipes seemed to get us at the front door whenever we showed up on a Friday or Saturday night.

Thanks for converting and posting this.

Brian

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Thanks so much!! I was just thinking back to people I used to know…Gerry’s name came to mind and this is what I found! listened to “the old dun cow” and had a laugh and a teary eye. I did some singing at the welly and loved their jam night…went on to perform many of the songs I learned from listening to Gerry. I lived in Ireland and was known as the Canadian girl who knew more Irish songs than any Irishmman. Wherever he is, I’m sure he’d be thrilled to know we’re all still listening!

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My husband and I spent many, many Friday nights at the Wellington. We’d often go for dinner on Friday night just to be sure to get a table to listen to Gerry. We have many very fond memories of that time! We would love to know how he’s doing and where he is! Thanks so much for the music!

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Gosh … thanks for this. Like so many Queen’s folks, i encountered Gerry BEFORE i knew of Stan Rogers and traditional Irish music. To me, these songs are his songs. And i wish him well wherever he is. The Welly in the early 90s was THE place to be on a Friday night.

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wow. sitting in a doorway near the wellington waiting for the “meet the parents” moment in the late 1990′s… so many lieutenants escaped from Fort Drum to drink pints and listen to awesome music. my wife and I are now married going on nine years, and gerry o’kane’s music is no small part of our family memories. thank you so much for posting- we can now introduce our one year old daughter to how music is meant to be played!!! retired he may be, but certainly not forgotten.

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Awesome!! I still have my tape. I google for him often. Best bar memories I have ever had…if I could remember them My squadron went there often. When I visit K’town, I just miss it more. Thanks so much for the links!!

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Happy St. Paddy’s Day to all the Gerry fans!

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Thanks for this! I still have my tape and (vaguely) remember the night it was recorded! I met my husband at the Welly and we now have two beautiful little ones. I wonder how many kids there are out there that can be attributed directly back to a meeting at the Wellington on a Friday/Saturday Gerry O’Kane night. Thinking of you Gerry on this St. Patrick’s day. Sadly, no more St. Patty’s days of 14 hours at the Welly – but I will have a beer tonight in your honour!

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…her eyes, they shone like the diamonds, you’d think she was queen o the land… ahhh good times with Paul, Lorin and Chris there in the hey day of 1990 to 93 … well she was! I’m raising my glass to Gerry on this St Paddy’s day.

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Awesome. I was told we’d cruise the seas for American gold; we’d fire no guns, shed no tears… but Jerry O’Kane went away, and here I sit in my 36th year, the last of the Wellington’s privateers…

Man, we used to have a great time there. Gerry, go with God.

Kristian (RMC 92-96)

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Fantastic! Wow. What a voice – what a story-teller. Lucky for us all he shared his talent! Thought of Gerry while watching the St. Patty’s Day parade last weekend.

Many thanks for posting these tunes. The sound quality is great! -Will have to share this link with some friends.

Marie

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gerry is doing fine.it,s amazing to see his music touched so many people. he doesn’t live in belfast but is down by the sea at the foot of the mourne mountains.that’s co.down.was grand when i last spoke to him. a real nice fella and a gentleman.

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Thanks! I’ve searched a whole bunch on and off through the years ~ love that you did this! I still have my tape, but I’ve wanted it on my iPod
Bet if I tried I could dig up the poster of Gerry we ripped down and stole and put up in our living room in the apartment on Johnson….

Love, love, love this! Thanks ~

Jenn
Queen’s 00

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Thanks man, lost all of the songs years ago

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I started seeing Gerry live at the Toucan and then moved over to the Welly. I also used to see him at a pub in Ottawa. Quite a few years involved there. Last time I saw him was with his son *and mine!* at a Canada fireworks celebration in Kingston. Our sons are the same age so we caught up a bit since I hadn’t seen him around in ages. I don’t even know if Judith is still in Boston or not. If you two ever google yourselves, here’s a hat tip and best wishes from Ruth Anne. Kingston is quite dead these days with regard to folk music and Gerry you are really missed here!

My son grew up asking to listen to this tape. I happily indulged him my pub days long over..great memories.

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Wow…nice to see this interest in Gerry.. I was just listening to his tunes and started wondering what had become of him – my wife and I went to the Wellington every time we were in Kingston – say 5-6 times a year for several years and made a point of spending saturdays listening to Gerry… I bought th etape he made and still have it..had it converted to mp3 format several years ago also.. I downloaded your versions to see if quality better and yours do seem to be clearer..so Thanks!

I never tire of hering these tunes..always bring back memories… drank a lot of beer at the pub – stayed to closing every time then went to the Hoagie House for eats

Cheers all!

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I’m sure I saw Gerry in a folk club in Belfast about 18 months ago but he left before I had a chance to say hello to him. I dated him for a while many years ago (too many!) in Belfast and have heard he lives in County Down near his brother. I know him from way back in his Imperial Hotel days! I live in London now but still hear all the “biz” from family in Belfast when I visit. I’d love to meet up with him again for old times’s sake – it’s lovely to see how well liked he was/is

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My husband spent some time in Kingston at the Wellington, and I’ve heard many stories of his evenings there. We had a tape also, and I almost cried when it was ruined while I was listening to it in the car. I knew it was important to him, and was sad that it was unuseable! Last night we found this website, and you should have seen his face as we listened to a few tracks. I’m now burning them to CD as a surprise for him. Thanks Mike for getting this info up and running. I wish I had been able to see Gerry in real life, my husband still talks about him.
Cheers to all the fans, and to Gerry.

Jenn

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Spent many years enjoying Gerry’s music. First at the Toucan, then the Brew Pub and finally settling at the Wellington. Saturday’s, New Years and of course, St. Patrick’s day.

slàinte

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Well, well, well, oh so many good times at the Welly. I honestly don’t remember how many times I visited or how many dollars I spent between 91 to 95, but I must say that I truly miss the Welly and Gerry’s music. I’ve piped there, learned to play the spoons, and can probably be heard as one of the folks who used to ask Gerry to sing the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. RMC math classes with Peter Buckholtz were held at the Welly on certain Friday afternoons and certain “Pary Man” type guys were often asked to leave … but that’s another story. Great times overall and I would love to know what has happened to Mr O’Kane.

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Thanks so much Micheal! (and congratulations Sarah!)

So may (fuzzy) memories of Gerry at the Welly when I was there 1996-2000.

This is going straight to my Ipod…

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The year before The Wellington opened, my housemates and I spent every other Saturday at The Brew Pub for “Gerry Night”. The first day The Welllington opened it’s doors, I was working there, and barring a sojourn to Switzerland one summer, I worked most nights Gerry played until late 1994. It was the music and the atmosphere of the eving that kept me there. I made friends, lost a few (Christian Smith RIP), met a couple of girlfriends, and eventually met my (still) wife there. I spent a few of my own birhtdays there, my parents’ birthdays a couple of times, nights with the DUCKs (Down Under Club Kingston)and Andrew MacDonald, it goes on and on. It was the best of times, it was (rarely) the worst of times….

Michael, thanks for resurecting the memories of some very good times in my life. I have been to more than my fair share of pubs, unexpectedly played in a few, but have never been able to recreate the atmosphere that the mix of Gerry’s music and patrons like Ron Murphy (remember the dancing Newfie with the bones?), Happy Hanson, the Bands of RMC and Queens, and many others helped create.

PS. I think I went to highschool with the Sarah you’re referring to, of she went to ENSS in Brighton.

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Hi there,

I have been looking for Gerry O’kane’s CD for ages, I lost mine on the move. thanks for posting.

SC

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Thanks so much, Mike!
Fridays (and many Saturdays too!) at the Welly were tradition for many years.
I was there when he recorded these songs and still have the tape cassette. I had always wanted these songs digitized and am so grateful to have found them on your site. They bring back such great memories.

Cheers,
James

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Mike,

Thanks so much for posting these, I was at the Welly many Friday and Saturday nights in ’94-’97. My tape has long since been broke, but I kept the little paper cover-just in case. What a St. Paddy’s Day gift!

Cheers.

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I like most(all?) of the people posting here spent many O night at the welly during my time in Kingston in the mid 90′s. So many truly amazing nights…. I’m so glad to have these tunes now. If only I could find a recording of his Edmund Fitz, I too made sure that it was played everytime I was there!

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This is the best st patty’s gift I’ve ever gotten. Thank you thank you! I wish the black velvet band was on here too, but all of the songs are amazing. 1996-98 Loved every minute of it!

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Absolutely fantastic! My tape wore out from listening to it years ago! I’ve never found a pub that rivaled the Welly in the 90′s! Thank you so much!

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Mike..
Words cannot express what I feel about you posting these song here… Thank you so much. I would see Gerry at the Harp and Thistle pub in St. Pete Beach, Florida, in the early 80′s Many a good time was had there, thanks to Gerry, and this music brings it all back! Now, sadly the pub is gone, and it’s manager and owner Jennifer Parker died in a tragic and mysterious accident..
With this music, I feel I can regain just a bit of the magic that we all felt those weekends in the pub…
Thanks again Mike..

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Fabulous! Thank you so much for taking me back to the Welli!!!

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Singing at the Wellington is one of my favourite memories of Queen’s, especially on the nights when Gerry hosted the Band’s Smokers. Pints of cider, kilts and Gerry was the best combination!! Thank you so much for creating this website. I would give anything to go back in time for just one more night at the Wellington. There will never be another experience like it!

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Great memories and great friends, loved the Wellie most Friday and Saturday nights. Cheers for this!

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some of my best memories..

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I only saw Gerry twice. And unfortunately I was nowhere near into Celtic music as much as I am now. However I LOVE these tracks. The crowd participation, the good times, it’s such a treat that this website exists with these MP3′s! I still tell people who think Fionn MacCool’s, Winnipeg’s Dylan O’Connors and Shannon’s Pub, are Irish Pubs that they’ve never seen a real Irish pub. Man the Welly had people banging their empty mugs off the tables in sync with the beat. There was no dance floor but people were dancing! It was one of the greatest places I’ve ever had the pleasure to tip a few in, and I wasn’t even aware of how great it was at the time – that’s my only regret. My brother John was there frequently if anyone recognizes a Johnny G and his younger brother Mark combo. Anyway, back to the music!

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