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Sheena Crowley
- Aug 16, 2020
- 7 min
Happy Memories 2
"Willie Wonka didn't employ Noel Curran"...that says it all. I received this letter a few days ago from Michael Creedon and along with Ronan Daly's message I will put both on the wall of my museum someday. It is beautiful. It is kindness and it illustrates a way deeper connection than we even understood. As I said to Michael, we waited to see every last one of you, every single week. We knew your habits, what time you would show up. We missed ye when ye didn't come. 😁 Dear S
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Sheena Crowley
- Aug 16, 2020
- 4 min
Happy Memories by Ronan Daly
OMG! as the young people say. I just got this message from an old/young customer. I was emotional reading this. I would say if a genie asked me do I want to win a million euro or read this, I would choose to read this every time.
This is what it was all about for us. You have just made my father's existence Ronan Daly.
I remember this young man and ironically my impression of him was someone always smiling as though he was having a laugh with his friend and we certainly never
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Sheena Crowley
- Aug 10, 2020
- 4 min
Heather and the Chain Gang
All during lockdown, I found myself constantly thinking about musicians. I wondered how they were handling not being able to express themselves. It made me think about Rory Gallagher who was famously introverted but as soon as he stepped on stage he came alive. Are our musicians feeling alive? I was worried about them but they all seemed to be ok. What is going on? I realised that with so much time on their hands they were instinctively getting into creative mode. They were
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Sheena Crowley
- Aug 9, 2020
- 3 min
The Island of Music
On August 6th, on my father Mick's 10th-anniversary, myself and my brothers launched a new website. It is called the 'Island of Music'. I can hear you saying it and wondering why?
It is bigger than Crowley's and it has a long term vision. We will still have Crowley's YouTube channel and the Crowley's Facebook page has been re-activated because the shop will always be Crowleys. So I want to explain the initiative: this is about creating a circular economy for musicians, and in
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