Open / Public Sessions

"Open" sessions are public sessions where anyone is welcome to join in. It doesn’t matter whether you know the music or the local repertoire. The tunes played are always more or less well-known (instrumental pieces). If you know the melody, you play along; otherwise, you sit out.

In semi-open/public sessions, either the venue is private or the musicians playing in a public place have been explicitly invited to do so. Not everyone can join in at such venues. You have to have been invited. Such session formats are important, for example, in restaurants where space is limited, or as part of the entertainment for an event such as a wedding or garden party, where everyone should be familiar with the repertoire in order to ‘deliver’ good music.

Rose has often organised such sessions on a smaller scale, such as at the der 
🔴 Rösslibeiz in Stäfa
But also public sessions where ‘only’ a stable core group of musicians needed to be provided, such as at the
🔴 Wülflinger Dorfet 2025 (JWG Eulach)
and, of course, at the established concert-accompanying session at the Alte Kaserne in Winterthur to provide the backdrop for the
🔴 ‘Celtic’ concert series
where Rose, as a founding member, still belongs to the core crew (even if her other activities increasingly keep her away from it)
➡ see also followed:

«Celtic»-Concert Support Programme
🔴 at the Alten Kaserne Winterthur

Before and after the Celtic concerts, concertgoers are treated to a taste of the Irish pub atmosphere. As it is not uncommon for concert musicians (often world-renowned stars) to join our Irish session after the concerts, these evenings are truly unforgettable.