Hello out there! Is there anyone landing here who can tell me the name of the song that begins to be sung at 56:54? I've played that on whistle and flute for ages but never learned the name. Am thinking that I'd also love to have a go at the lyrics as well. Many thanks in advance. C
Beautiful songs and tunes by very talented traditional musicians.The whole series have been a joy to listen to well done everybody involved in the programmes.
For non-Irish speakers: Seathrún Ó Casaide composed the tune at about 1:18:00 in honour of Dr. George Robert Grasett, who worked amongst Irish famine refugees in Toronto in 1847 and ultimately died of typhus himself while doing so.
I believe there is somewhere in the option where you can add that this video is in the Irish langauge. That might be helpful for getting publicity, etc.
traditional music is the only music that still has resonance and celebration of Nature and Landscape , if the text dont reflect that clearly enough, it is audible in the music itself....what i sincerely lack in any modern, commercial or classical music...and in general in our heavily industrialized, digitalised and polluted society.....😢 we as humans dont know what we are anymore....traditional music, of all cultures, let us feel who we really are again, and that we and our environment are one (at least that is how it feel for me and why I feel so `alive` when i listen/dance to trad. music)
such young musicians and a) they still speak fluently gaelic and b) they have a very sound knowledge of real traditional irish music c) the multitalentness (but i guess in ireland everybody plays at least 3 instruments at concert level from the age of 5)
