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Hello everybody,
I hope that everybody had a wonderful christmas, and I wish all of you a fantastic 2015.
(Administrators, I hope this message is in the right place. If not, please move it at your discretion.)
My name is Peter Brauckmann, and I'm from the Netherlands.
On behalf of my parents I am looking for an Irish folk singer named Patrick Callinan, whom they knew in the 1980s.
As far as they can remember, Patrick had some dealings with the band Planxty, but what this entailed, and for how long it lasted, they don't know.
My parents met mr Callinan around 1980. At the time he was living in Vlaardingen, near Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.
I was a kid at the time, so my memories of mr. Callinan are sketchy to say the least. :-) But my parents remember this about him:
- At the time he lived in the Pieter Karel Drosschaertstraat, possibly at number 70.
- He played guitar and bodhran.
- He performed in pubs like Matrix (Rotterdam), de Koperen Kap (Vlaardingen) and Dirty Nelly's (Delft), none of which still exists, AFAIK.
- He had a girlfriend called Alma, and she moved to Heerhugowaard after a while. Since we don't know her last name that's a bit of a dead end.
- We do not know how old he was, because he wouldn't tell when he was born. We do know that he was born in or around Dublin.
- His brother (first name unknown) was a truckdriver, or had his own transport company.
- He made an LP called Patrick Callinan sings.
- My parents saw him last in a restaurant in Antwerp around 1982-83
- They received a postcard from New York a few years later (1987-1988?) saying "see you soon" or something similar. But they never did.
I realize it's a long shot, but my parents would very much like to get in touch with mr. Callinan.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you know anything, however small, you can get in touch with me via e-mail: p.brauckmann@gmail.com
Thank you all very much in advance.
Peter
I hope that everybody had a wonderful christmas, and I wish all of you a fantastic 2015.
(Administrators, I hope this message is in the right place. If not, please move it at your discretion.)
My name is Peter Brauckmann, and I'm from the Netherlands.
On behalf of my parents I am looking for an Irish folk singer named Patrick Callinan, whom they knew in the 1980s.
As far as they can remember, Patrick had some dealings with the band Planxty, but what this entailed, and for how long it lasted, they don't know.
My parents met mr Callinan around 1980. At the time he was living in Vlaardingen, near Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.
I was a kid at the time, so my memories of mr. Callinan are sketchy to say the least. :-) But my parents remember this about him:
- At the time he lived in the Pieter Karel Drosschaertstraat, possibly at number 70.
- He played guitar and bodhran.
- He performed in pubs like Matrix (Rotterdam), de Koperen Kap (Vlaardingen) and Dirty Nelly's (Delft), none of which still exists, AFAIK.
- He had a girlfriend called Alma, and she moved to Heerhugowaard after a while. Since we don't know her last name that's a bit of a dead end.
- We do not know how old he was, because he wouldn't tell when he was born. We do know that he was born in or around Dublin.
- His brother (first name unknown) was a truckdriver, or had his own transport company.
- He made an LP called Patrick Callinan sings.
- My parents saw him last in a restaurant in Antwerp around 1982-83
- They received a postcard from New York a few years later (1987-1988?) saying "see you soon" or something similar. But they never did.
I realize it's a long shot, but my parents would very much like to get in touch with mr. Callinan.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you know anything, however small, you can get in touch with me via e-mail: p.brauckmann@gmail.com
Thank you all very much in advance.
Peter
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