Seamus the man who travelled all over Ireland in the 50s recording irish music saving hundreds of tunes from extension Thanks Seamus for your work God bless you
When RU-vid first came out I mostly used it to watch grainy footage of 80s hardcore punk gigs. Now I basically only watch archive Irish trad videos. That’s evolution in practice! This one going straight into the top ten!
Seamus Ennis was the rock star of his time, he was the Jimi Hendricks, Django Reinhardt, Phil Lynott of brilliant music and storytelling, the music of those brilliant men will last forevermore.
great playing. only seamus could play this most difficult version of bucks of oranmore, magnificent. no body else could play like him. a piper`s piper.
This brought me to tears. Not sure exactly why, 'cause the song seems so upbeat and cheerful. It made me think of my great-great grandmother who left the Lough Corrib area in County Galway (in the 1870s) with her three children. They took ship and (I think) sailed up the Saint Lawrence Seaway, through the Great Lakes and finally came to settle in the Credit River region (now Lakeville) in southern Minnesota. It was a long trip and my great-grandmother who was only 5 at the time nearly died at sea. If she hadn't been so courageous, I would be a very different person, if I was here at all.
This is just stupid good! His fingers are a blur...he's even smiling at 1:28 (likely thinking about someone else trying this tune!). Challenge for the up and coming piper...the benchmark has been set. I wish you luck. Thanks for posting.
un-freaking real...this man plays the pipes like the Good Lord intended the pipes to be played...with grace...so much style...wonderful....just wonderful
@finbarmaginn Naul, just north of Dublin. He worked for the Irish Folklore Commission for many years, though, in which he would have been traveling all over Ireland.
I was gonna say, did they call, “Time, Séamus”? That’s great TV 😂 In the Inuit accordion tradition up in Nunavut in Canada’s North they play tunes like this But it’s still dance music, and they keep playing the same tune until the dancers get tired, which can go on for a really long time So if you book them for a sit-down performance, it challenges the performer, because traditionally they would play one tune and never stop 🪗
What's really fun is watching the audience struggling not to get up and dance :D LOL!! How could you resist! Gorgeous playing of course. Gives you chills.
It looks like this was from a series called Ag Déanamh Ceoil, which is supported by the fact that I think I hear Tony McMahon shout "Come on, Seamus!", and Tony was the host of that show. Unfortunately, only three episodes of ADC survive, so not enough for a DVD. But I think this is one of them, as I've seen clips of Noel Hill (young buck sitting right next to Seamus here) playing in this episode as well.
He made Uilleann pipes sound like Uilleann pipes. With all due respect to Paddy Keenan, he forgets to include the popping and squealing. Paddy makes the instrument sound like a clarinet, IMHO.
joe byrne Joe, if you tap your foot to the music you'll see it doesn't slow at 1:30. I don't think so. If he does, it's a tiny change. He uses the regulators heavily at that point and continues with the chanter using only the left hand for a few measures.
72?? The footage looks like 62. Irish tv stations must have had it bad in the equipment department then. Must be difficult to find video recordings surviving from that era.
The hair though - there are a couple of guys there with definitely 70s hair. No male would have been allowed hair like that in 1962 in London, let alone Ireland!
