This should be compulsory listening for all aspiring players of any instrument ...he was so musical...heard him back in the 60s long before the present generation ..it's because of people like him/Canny/Ennis/Paddy O'Brien and PJ Moloney (Portroe) the Cooleys etc that the music survived.
As a younger musician (22) i love his style of playing even though i play box. Thankfully people/teachers like Brendan Mulkere perpetuate listening to old styles and masters like Sean Ryan
Thanks for posting this. It's the first video of Sean Ryan I've ever seen. Great! The jig listed as Willie Clancy's is more commonly known as Ard an Bothar (The Hill on the Road, or The High Part of the Road).
Thanks for upload ..knew Sean Ryan and played in his house with him a few times (Great nights) ...lovely player .He had a geat tone and really fine finger and bow technique....''Grand oul' blind''! Do any of his family play?
Yes, I thought this yesterday! If you listen to the recording of Sean playing Bonnie Kate/Jenny’s Chickens from the record he made with PJ Moloney, it sounds so similar to Kevin’s recording of those tunes on his ‘In Concert’ CD.
I've spent most of the day learning and practising two of Seán's compositions, The Castle Jig and The Nightingale. Search for Kevin Burke, Martin Hayes Seán Ryan's Jigs to hear them played together. My fiddle teacher and I are massive fans of his work. There was a book of his compositions published called, The Hidden Ireland. I have a copy on loan as I can't find it in print to buy.
It’s ‘The Pigeon on the Gate’, but one of the more unusual versions in G major/mixolydian rather than E minor. I transcribed the version from this video for the Irish music site ‘The Session’ if you want the sheet music (setting no. 24).
