I love this! Very cool how the fiddler, box player and banjo player are sort of playing "lead" at different parts of the session. They are having so much fun. Look at those smiles.
Lots of fun at the folk fest of edmonton where they came to jam with other on stage 3...Gino, the big guy was top...Got drunk with him and other at the after party LOLOL
great music but the banjo mainly drowns out the fiddle and accordion and the guitarist and bodhran player might as well be miming -the sound engineer needs to shape up
When are people going to get it that the guitar DOES NOT belong in REAL, TRUE, TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC???!!! Actually, all Irish Music was stolen by the Celts from the Irish Travellers, so in a sense, "Pre-Irish" Music does not have a guitar in it! The guitar did not begin to pop in the mainstream, Irish Music scene until the 1950's. Think about the real Irish Music that was played privately on the side of the road or in cottages when people actually got up and DANCED and not sitting around like a bunch of high hippies, you would be hard-pressed to find a guitar and the joy and spirit were in it as opposed to these infiltrators who are merely "imitating a sound they heard, but they can never imitate the true joy that was had by the people who managed to celebrate the natural world around them despite having been forced off their land!
+123 456L Two hundred years ago the fiddle was a fairly recent introduction and could only be afforded by the wealthy. At that time most Irish music was played on crude flutes, pipes and bodhrans. Why not freeze it in that era instead of the one you suggest? Because traditional music isn't about preserving an era. All music has always evolved and changed, and that change will always be dictated by the people who learn and play the music, not by commentators and critics on the sidelines.
change can be a scary thing, but thats what traditional music is all about. It is never still. Traditional music is always changing, like the ebb and flow if the tide. passed on from generation to generation each adding their voice and emotions to the journey of the songs and tunes.
