1977 - Andy Irvine & Paul Brady - TV Performance 

Can we just appreciate how skilled Paul Brady is at guitar. The stuff he plays may sound easy compared to other stuff but that hybrid picking is absolutely no joke at all.

A fecking Gallic harmonica solo??? WHAT??? I have never in all my days!!!! Mind blown

Like pure mountain honey dripping from the honey best hive, like the best wine or whiskey that you ever tasted, Andy Irvine & Paul Brady and singing voices of very rarest beauty and stunning quality, the same goes for their instrument playing, their songs, songwriting, and storytelling. their music would be greatly appreciated in any land their music is played, they have got whole-world appeal

Mary and the soldier is a gorgeous tune isnt it ...

Ah the Lakes of Pontchartrain! Pure beauty as Paul Brady sings it and both play it. I drink a health to both Andy and Paul...

Arthur McBride (from 17:10 on) is an absolutely extraordinary anti-recruitment song from the early 19th century. That whole world of resistance is ignored in the propaganda: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_McBride

Eire .... a nation of storytellers .... such an ancient and rich culture.

Paul Brady's rendering of Arthur McBride is in a class of it's own and would make rebels of all who hear it! I never tire of watching and hearing this performance.

I never tire of Paul Brady singing the word 'alligator'

Deux de mes grandes inspirations. Et mes amis aussi

It doesn't get any better than this. Fiendishly difficult fingerings feigning effortlessness.

I haven't heard this in decades! I recorded it off a television broadcast and I had forgotten how good it was.

Esta generacion, nuestra generación actual, no puede superar en nada, la generación de músicos que escuchamos en este video. Hoy en dia se cree que por tocar musica muy rápido, es mejor.

How does anyone memorise so many lyrics and play so brilliantly on guitar? I love listening to Paul Brady.

All yer 70's guitar heros wouldn't last two minutes with these two!

In the 1980s I thought Hard Station is one of the best albums I have heard and i was a heavy metal fan

FABULOUS video , Made me cry, So talented, It doesn't get better than this, Great depth of feeling 💓 Instrumentals PERFECT XX, Lovely Guys

Arthur MacBride may be one of the best narrative songs ever recorded! I have seen each of these guys on their own, but regret not having the chance to see them together!

Still one of the best trad albums and my personal favourite. Great songs, great singing, great musicians. top quality.

These two are absolutely unbeatable.

5:45 shows that you can indeed headbang over one of the tightest time changes you'll ever hear, and it would be in a traditional folk song with a got dang bouzouki.

So glad that that performances like this are still available, Andy and Paul created something so special when they recorded their album in 1976. Wonderful that Arthur McBride is included here too :)

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Years later and still timeless. Pure class!

Fantastic live performance....Brady and Irvine are in top form....and they still are, 40 years later !!!!

Wonderful, thank you.

... 23.59 minutes de pur plaisir ... merci ..

gold..

Incredible performances.

Has to be one of the best recordings of the highest quality musicianship ever made in this country- hard to think of any duo in our history of such quality. The playing on Plains of Kildare is stunning.

he plays harp upside down like Woody Guthrie.

How lucky were they. Sitting there. I'd given anything to see them live.. Just as lucky to be sitting here listening 40 odd years later 🍀🍀🍀🍀❤️

Brady sounds so mature, but just looks like a wee lad. Aw...

Thx Danke german

I always loved this song. Two marvellous talents.

Finally had the pleasure of seeing paul live in ennis absolute class

One of my favourite Andy Irvine songs.

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Musician official!

He is a master! Lovely. :)

The delicate, floral delivery of mary and the soldier compared to the bold and brassy projection of arthur mcbride, nothing left unconsidered, everything intentional, such wonderous detail. the best folk music is as real and detailed as nature, and beautiful thing happens when the detail outfathoms our focus, instead of claiming victory, and moving on, we are warmed, left only to wonder at the depths of what we are hearing. And remark how it is only people, practiced just like anyone could, who can conjure such blissful suspension!

Fantastic

Love these two performing together!

World class

Was that a shot of kevin burke for half a second there?

What a fabulous voice and style!

10 people disliked this!! What did you think you’d find? Idiots...

Fab

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