He is incredible. I was fortunate enough to do sound for himself and Cal Scott. What a wonderful evening in the Potomac Highlands it was. My Irish DNA was re-awakened. I will always remember that night. What a blessing for us all. Just beautiful music. He did it all. If you get a chance to hear him, do it. He will not disappoint. He will whip the Devils rear end, back from out of the hole, the Devil crawled out of, for he is the bigger monster.
Clicked on this with the intention of listening to the first few tunes. Kevin's performance is so mesmerising I stayed for the full concert! A master at the height of his powers.
Kevin Burke is my favourite Irish fiddler. So much energy, passion, rhythm and generosity in his style. He is my model actually! It will be hard to load my videos after this perfromance...
I wish I could hear Kevin Burke play live! I was lucky enough to hear Brid Harper here in Toronto. I also love full-blown classical concerts and have been part of them myself. I love and appreciate both types of performances; they create completely different kinds of atmospheres and moods.
I agree --a simple presentation like this facilitates the appreciate the musician's wonderful skill. Yet I love both classical violin and Irish fiddle.. If you are in London go to one of the free concerts in an old church, like St. Martins in the Field. it's such a similar vibe.
my Whistle Teacher send me this video to watch it: it is beautiful playing, and as an architect....just breathtaking the lovely place when he's playing, much love from Costa Rica
Just found this beautiful concert Kevin Burke. Some years ago you did a workshop with us at @Comhaltas Melbourne an Irish Culture Day in Collingwood. Thanks so Much. Mary Fitzmaurice McBride ( Mayo)
Kevin I saw you live in Portland during the seventies and once in Colorado Springs. The Colorado Springs concert was in a brand new Hall with tremendous acoustics. You were traveling with Mikhail then. You left us breathless.
you probably dont give a damn but does someone know a tool to log back into an Instagram account?? I was stupid forgot the password. I appreciate any help you can give me.
@Malcolm Allan I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and im waiting for the hacking stuff atm. Takes a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
" Lucy's fling" is a highland fling known as "Maggie Pickens". The song "Some say the devil's dead and buried in Killarney" comes from a Scottish strathspey known as "The braes of mars".
Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid, An ancestor was rector there Long years ago; a church stands near, By the road an ancient Cross. No marble, no conventional phrase, On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
I saw Kevin and attended a couple of workshops at the National Celtic Festival in Portarlington, Victoria, Australia a few years ago. One night he did an up close and personal session and told some great stories in between his tunes. Hope he doesn't mind that I recorded it. The annual Festival would have been last Long Weekend but was cancelled at last minute due to you know what, as it was last year. Also remember it was his Birthday that weekend!
@@shobarsch Hi, I can't seem to find the recording at the moment but if I do, do you have an email I can post it to. I'm sure I still have it, quality not great but not bad!
I learned every single F* tune from kevs recordings back in the day, like so many young modern fiddlers before me... you are the PAPI FIDDLIo :D nioce one kev!
At 44:10: Kevin introduces Evening Prayer Blues, which he thought was a Bill Monroe tune, and turned out to be a tune by the African-American, Black, harmonica genius DeFord Bailey, who opened up the very first broadcast of the Grand Old Opry with an amazing harmonica rendition of the old bluegrass standby Turkey In The Straw. So this piece of music attributed to DeFord Baily is a gorgeous call-and response/field holler spiritual. Kevin plays it wonderfully. The DeFord Bailey version: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dHK0ii3MZr4.html
To be fair, the Monroe version he plays had been substantially reworked from Deford Bailey’s tune, enough to really make it its own piece. Monroe credited Bailey, but his version bares little resemblance to the original.
The first two tunes in the set are The Pidgeon on the Gate and Lafferty's: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Agh8VD6T4p0.html The third tune sounds familiar but I can't bring the name to mind. (Note: if there is a tune on RU-vid that you want to learn, try slowing it down to 75 or 50 percent and then learning by ear).
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