Even yesterday, I had a rummage in my local second-hand CD music store, (unsuccessful, so far) for an old CD copy of "Ballroom" to play in the car. A classic Irish Trad album for any long road trip. It can instantly transport me to the Eighties, & the trips west to the Galway Races, and the great 'Gathering of the Boats' Festival, Cruinniú na mBád, at Kinvara. Set dancing in the street, with De Danann and many other fine traddies playing from a stage, otherwise known as the back of a lorry trailer...! Great shtuff! My CD search rolls on... like the "Wheels of the World" 🎻.... ⦿...⦿...🎶
Holy heck that fella on the squeezebox can make it sing! (I'm not going to even comment on the twin geniuses of Frankie Gavin on Fiddle and the late Alec Finn on the bouzouki - I don't need to)
Of course there's a world of difference between playing for dancing and a concert environment. Also I find the the 'tighter' the performance then swift music doesn't sound rushed, and there's none tighter than they. An excellent foot-tapping set.
I would say late 1985 or early 1986 (rather than 1988). I saw them live with the cello player and with Dolores Keane (and Mary Black) around that time.
I saw them late in the 80s in Dayton Ohio also with Mary Black, the cellist whose name eludes me. Also 2 step-dancers. Alec Finn, Martin O'Connor and "Ringo" McDonough were present and accounted for that night as well.
Not so sure - some tunes do well at different tempos, but the Rights of Man needs to breathe a bit I think. Lovely clean playing, but just because you can doesn't mean that you always should...
Quite unusual compared to the Celtic harp music I usually listen to for relaxation I found myself drawn to it. Lovely music performed by even lovelier ladies. Think I must subscribe so I can hear more.
@@rebekahleib9303 LOL..just read this. Used to do Irish dancing in the 60's and one musician we would dance with, Joe Campion in L.A., would gain speed as the dance progressed with us dancing triple speed at the end! Good times!!!
Beautiful stuff played by beautiful people from a beautiful nation. Assuming you have a programme, i.e. CoolEdit, you can slow it down to suit your chosen hornpipe speed. Peg and Bobby Clancy do a nice "I know where I'm going" but v-e-r-y slow - you lose the snap - so I speeded that up to 170%. Arrogance, pure arrogance.
Depends on who you play with....that's the beauty of Celtic music....everybody has their own idea of how it should sound. It is a hornpipe which is traditionally a dancing tune so it should be played faster than say a reel.
@@bluegreydude4 No, a hornpipe is a capstan tune, so it's far slower than a reel. Picture guys slowly weighing an anchor by going round and round on a capstan. One, and uh 2, and uh 3...
No. The notes are sequenced carefully over the composition in order to portray the feeling desired by the composer. If you do this to a tune it looses its soul for the sake of speed
To read these comments, you'd think they were a controversial new cutting edge band - oh my god! they played a hornpipe too fast! Like, 40 years ago... they were ahead of their time: by now, I've heard that tune played so many times, hearing it quickly is refreshing. And the Pride of Petrovore ain't a hornpipe anyways, it's a song...
I owe someone an apology as I deleted a reply to this with a link showing Jacky Daly clean shaven. I did put a "smiley" at the end, it wasn't a serious question :)
