Noel Hill, Tony MacMahon - The Concertina, Come West Along the Road, The New Mown Meadow 

This is as close to perfection as you're ever likely to get.

OMG Beautiful Brilliant Performance Guys Well done RIP TONY

Two of the finest players of Irish Traditional music, yet, 47 'Keyboard warriors' gave them a thumbs down.....

"""I knew Noel's uncle Paddy well , and travelled to several fleadh ceols with him, with another friend , along with mary Bergins father Joe. In Paddy's green morris minor ,singing and lilting al the way ,Boyle Swinford etc. great fun had by all.very happy memories. """😉👍

Mighty in one word 😊

I absolutely love this and come back to it when I need reminding of how good these two could be. And I love the 'hup!' that you hear them shout, when it is really rolling. Reminds me of people shouting out in the pub I learned in back in the 70s, packed with first generation Irish missing home. As it picked up you'd hear the shouted encouragements and then at the end ''Fair play to ye!" I miss it.

The Music simply doesn't get any better than these two great men playing together!

Wonderful music gets better every time I listen to it.

Saw Noel in concert once and I was in awe of his mastery !! 🤩

the 2 albums they made together with the dancers represent the best of trad music. the last reel the new mown meadows is one of the finest reels, much loved by sean nos dancers. great bass.

Great performance by both of them!

Two of the very best, A treat to see them playing together.

Just been to Kilfenora where we saw him on stage. marvelous music. by God he is aging well too.....wow.

"""Sad to say Tony Mc. Mahon on accordion passed away a couple of weeks ago . R . I, P Tony . ""

This music and a few pints of Guinness.....Heaven......Yahooooooo !!

The music to liven up lockdown. Good for the soul. Thank you both.

Doesn't get any better than that.

Best version of this tune, Love The Concertina Reel, 5 *****+++

Yes it was filmed...I remember seeing it. I've never seen it since. The atmosphere captured at the session was unbelievable. One of great set dancers that night is no longer with us...Marty Marrinan from Cooraclare, County Clare.

Lovely blend of great music with ingenious harmonizing Splendid musicianship by two leading exponents

Sensational - 2 of my all time favourites playing together!!

Been workin on this wiv me 40 button Bastini for 3 weeks now & not even close! There are some good players here in Spain but they are all blown away by this INCREDIBLE!!! Spanishman

I love you guys. Don't ever stop.

Stunning. Two Maestros at work.

I play these songs off the Chieftains cds on my tin whistles love knowing they are out there to play along with love it guys

Fantastic playing.

How we spend the winter in Clare folks!

wow.. you don't have to know much about music to tell that's extraordinary playing.

Excellent playing

This is class

Unreal

such energy and beauty

Well done altogether like!

Sacré souvenir, de 1970, au Festival interceltique de Lorient !!

Amazing, powerful, masterful performance from two difficult, intense and highly gifted players. Thanks so much CeiliPaul. I'll be trying to emulate that set until I get old and me fingers seize up!

Two of the Music Greats!!

AMAZING!!!!!!!!

Et toujours autant de plaisir à vous écouter !

Superb masters in action✅

The golden age of these two great musicians

The talent is un real god given

Masters, both of 'em. Fantastic :D

Amazing!

I bought concertina today on carboot sale and so here I am :D

I know this is ten years since posting, and I know this is not going to sound especially impressive or exciting to some folks, but I just wanted to point out that thanks to Noel Hill, and to concertina music in general, I've been able to add a little bit of energy and spirit to my weekly D&D sessions. It's anachronistic fantasy gaming anyway, but the players at my table weren't getting excited over fiddles and flutes. Then I found the concertina, the maker of the music that we so often consider "sailor music" now. They don't have the historical background to know the full difference, but to a small (and growing) number of fantasy nerds, this is the music of high and joyful adventure. Thank you for posting it. :D

Brilliant!

Oooh La La!! Irish Soul Music. Good for the heart!

Great post Thanks

Beautiful blending Brilliant duet in London

Two mighty men, fab, fab fab.... would almost raise the departed.....😉☘️🇮🇪

great tune lovely playing

Lovely playing

Top rate stuff

This is something else

Amazing

a great song, you play so good, Love from Romania!

great music for dancing

Great musical duo

Legendary

Amazing! Thanks for posting!

Just brilliant musicians.

love it ye have lots of energy lads love to meet up with ye

GOOD LADS THAT IS TOP CLASS IN BLOOD

Great music so well played McMahon knew how to use the bass R I P ...his likes may be here again but they will be rare.

Most of my listening to Joe Burke would suggest that he is primarily a performer for a seated attentive audience. Tony has that special draíocht exemplified in bhis slow air playing but to me his greatest strength in in playing for set dancers, which for a large part of the listening public here in Clare was the primary object of the music. Listen to the crowd's initial reaction to the opening and closing 16 bars of any caledonian set when played for and danced as it should be. Mac's the Man

Nectar!

Bravo por esta gente

Sheer bliss

It would be interesting to hear Grainger's "Molly on the Shore" on accordian like this.

There is a CD up on YT of Hill & Mac Mahon playing this set of reels for set dancers in a county Kerry Pub...The best traditional music C.D. ever recording..

tony's a beast

♥

Energy Mor!

Notice that Tony is "striking" every note, even ones where two successive notes push/draw or draw/push, in the row are on the same button.

Brill music

Great!!!

I would walk a long way to see that film. If anyone has a clue where it might be found, please post the details!

The smaller the concertina, the easier is it to control.

Rest in Tony from Brian Cavanagh from Loughrea Co Galway

That's great!!! =)

Noel hill is my great uncle

Jesus, Mary and Joseph but that's music.

Dead right, Bannerman The set dancers in Cnoc na Graoi and the two lads greatly complemented each other. Do you know if that session was filmed. I think there is a film of it around somewhere

itma.ie... possibly find it there

Not the same without the set dancers...r.i.p. Marty Marrinan

ni bheidh a leithead ann aris arimh

Охуительно!!!!!!

Key?? Eb??

it looks like the French of Louisiana Cajun music

I just wish he'd pay his bills

never liked the concertina reel so much!

It's not perfect...........................it's better than that.

The tone and melody of the tunes are excellent but for me it is played a little too fast, as if they were in a hurry to get to the end.

Could it be they're over speeding..

Top shelf

great set of tunes, i could listen to this all day!!!!!