I've heard more than one person say no one from North America can play proper Irish music. Always struck me as completely insane -- if nothing else, there were

I've heard more than one person say no one from North America can play proper Irish music. Always struck me as completely insane -- if nothing else, there were enough emigrant Irish musicians in NYC and Chicago to form their own styles of the music! Liz Carroll has that story about sitting in a session in Ireland, playing tunes for hours, when someone says "Let's play some of your music!" and launches into Turkey in the Straw....