– is the name of the band that had a courage to foster me for a meanwhile. Since we met at St.Patrick's Eve at cafè 'Aroma' in Haifa, on March, 17th, 1998, and until we parted on March, 17th, 2000, I played there guitar, tryed also sometimes to get a singer's job – with no great success, though – from time to time worked as an apprentice carpenter, electric worker, notation writer, entertained little children – little dickens of a children, it would've been fair to say – worked sometimes also as a road manager and public relation man, – in short, anything true Irishmen would've done for a cup of coffee once or twice a week.
Don't look so curiously at the gentlemen with a fiddle on the chair: it's not Michael, and he didn't ever look like that.
To our great satisfaction, Shamrock Ceilidh Band, or Lahaqat haTiltan, as it is called in the language of Yelidim, is now not the only one vessel that carries Irish Music into this corner of the world (see, for example, the ad of Jacob's Ladder festival); there are already several others, e.g., Haifa-based band called Irish Cream; Center-based Kachol (Blue) and Qtifa Shchura (Black Velvet); but I don't know anything about it far beyond the name. From the other side, Shamrock Ceilidh Band is the eldest and the only one original Irish band, which always has at least one original Irishman in its ranks.
Though my love to Paddy Music is more than ten years old, Shamrock Ceilidh Band was my first experience of playing with the people who pretend they know how it must be played by the right of their birth. I wouldn't call this an easy thing and a nice evening entertainment; but it was I who wanted it, and I just had to enjoy it, no matter what.
Below are following the documents which do not contain one word about me; but hold your sigh of frustration; I did exist in the band, too. The problem is I learn quite slowly, and I preserve still a lot of Northern modesty, which tarries me.
For further informations, invitations, investitions and indemnifications:
Michael Ben-Israel,
Shamrock House,
7A r. Shlomo haMelech,
Neve-David, Haifa 35423;
phone no.: (972)-4-837-0472
e-mail: michaelmoore@hotmail.com, michaelmoorescb@hotmail.com
Well, you can also write an e-mail to me, but my Irish is even worse than Michael's Russian, and it's more than probably that I will pass everything said to him instead of taking it personally.
Ah, by the way! We, the former non-principals, have recently started a little project of our own up here in Jerusalem. Its working title will be something in between "The Wee Folks", "The Little Country" (check this wonderful work by C. de Lint), "Postum Ceili Band" (a double tribute to Michael and to great Iosiph Brodsky) or "Three Green Whistles" (© by Natsla). So far I have nothing to tell about it, but I hope I will later.