amazing irish guitar player

[daManonthehill]

fantastic.

[billyjoelforever]

<3 <3 <3 

[occams99]

Ireland needs your weed. Send it fast.

[Rosethehippyqueen22]

Ha I remember seeing him :D

[littlemicu]

N.C ....pure genious

[Ihaveaids2]

I hope I find this guy some day and have my camera handy

[randrworldcontests]

Wow...cool dude.....btw....here's some nice busker competition....a lot of cool buskers there ... enjoy =) randrworld[dot]com/buskers-com­petition.php

[neezocrene]

what a talent

[TheMRGHABRIEL]

i love texas people

[simonire]

Where can i find out about where and when he plays in pubs? I want to check him out!

[AriClark93]

Oh my god, I remember seeing this guy ages go, he was the one who convinced me to learn guitar! :O Thank you so much for posting this vid! :D

[Mapleneckguitar]

@AriClark93 that f-ing awesome...

[ethelwulf13]

oh, its Agust Rush

[coadsterlego]

Haha I always see him on grafton street :) no it's not a dobro btw. . .he's using a normal acoustic with a single coil pick up and a steel slide

[MrRavewolf]

lol at the people walking past, i would be throwing notes at him rofl

[bloodtypebloodtype]

lool.. this is not irish.

Thats american country music

[skylarking19]

@bloodtypebloodtype

Of course it's American music, however the player Niall Lawlor is from Ireland. Hence the title. By your logic, Jimmy Page is an American too

[thraknik]

@skylarking19 Where exactly do you think American music originates from?

[skylarking19]

@thraknik Not sure why you're asking that, I never mentioned the origin of American music myself. I was stating that the style of music he's playing is an American style of music (of which there are many types). The various genres of American music are a melting pot of various ethnic and traditional influences.

So where do you think American music originates from?

[3sheetz2thawind]

@bloodtypebloodtype it's actually more bluegrass style guitar! country music is bullshit!

[SuperCeol]

class. must get practising my chords!

[ralphcraddock]

this guy can play on my street anytime.

oh! there he is now

mo chara i wish you luck.

[Dimeshit666]

is that a dobro ?

[333joemc]

@Dimeshit666 No, it's just a regular acoustic guitar with the action (string hight from the fretboard) raised up with a dobro style capo. Kelly Joe Phelps plays like this too on his first three albums.

[thesamoray]

thats what i call a talent and HEY i dont see any one gave him money O.o

[Doggchief]

@thesamoray i did

[thesamoray]

thats what i call a talent

[scottsheenan]

I love seeing this guy when I'm in Dublin :D

[TheCatracho1]

i think hi ran away from texas....

[darkcurser389]

Now that's how u play guitar I would give him all the money I have for such beauty not even a sing note mess up 100/10 AWSOMEXD

[unyeleman]

gotta love the amp chair

[xbernicex94]

how can people just walk past that?

[ImSuperCj]

grafton street!

[yNotSkate4ever]

Thats the irish for ya! =D

[AsuraShin]

I've seen him there before, there was a huge crowd around watching him play but then the police came told him to move off because the crowd were blocking the street.

[poofypot]

flippin' sweet!!!

[flipinsweet]

@poofypot no, thats not me playing on the street this time.

[DizzyDingo1]

That's insane!

[Dantovsky]

Cool! ;)

[GerryDisthename]

Awesome. And that jacket rocks.

[allinwith2s]

check this guy out in Shebeen pub every tuesday on george's street

[NiallH89]

thats Niall Lawlor, great musician.

[jackfenderrox]

Grafton street, one of the best busking spots in the world, so many talented people there. Rodrigo y Gabriella suprisingly about three years ago.

[PattyMagooRocks]

I am a country Guitar Player. This Dude is Awesome. He is my Idol.

[wade99996]

some people...they just walk by and ignore such incredible talent. its a shame

[CowboyPhil73]

I actually saw this guy out there when I went to Ireland a few years ago, and though it may seem that everyone is cheap they guy is literally ALWAYS there. Trust me he is amazing but eventually it gets old, like after 8 days. But I would have loved a CD. I asked he didn't have any at that time.

[LeftyAccidkid666]

yeah smartass? which ones?

[greeneunited]

he s easily the coolest man alive

[mattefactor]

awesome!!!

[MissDanaBanana]

hahaha thats awesome

[auraluciana]

Respect!

[koc1a0pipes]

i would give more then a couple bucks that's for sure

[beau5757]

real talent on the streets

[Dodi206]

cool .. Grafton Street .. I watch him everytime I cross this street !!

[judeseamus]

he should hook up with eric sardinas and wail away on the southern circuit

[killallhamsters]

man would be a millionaire in texas or georgia

[EADPE]

leet right hand

[iknowimsexy55]

cool

[x0spazzafrazz0x]

sweeet! =]

[x0spazzafrazz0x]

I would have majorly tipped this man, then prolly have stuck around the listen to what else he had to play. He's amazing at acoustic side.

[mrcbx]

haha ill tip him next time for you i always see this chap every few weeks!

[imageoptical]

fffffffff fantastic !

[noosaslayer]

What a bunch of fucken tight asses! 1 prick only gave a dollar and the rest didn't give a shit! Jezz people like that shit me.

[MCslick101]

....Over here in Ireland, we tend to use Euros as currency, that note that dropped in was 5 euro, which is worth about 7 Dollars, not one.

[beggo321]

best thing i have ever heard

[yacetube]

he's obviously rather a Bluegrass player, american music

[LylesJoseph]

wow

[i3eckyjo]

how incredibly sexy is that man?!

[doublestar74]

magnificient!!!

[solorider55]

I would throw my wallet on him !

This dude is amazing !!!

[luapduape]

where is that looks like dublin where im from yay

[youvement]

that guy is awsome, I bet if he had big tits and blond hair he would get a record deal.

[rbo87]

in berlin we have a fat barefood american cowboy, playin folk-guitar in the underground-trains, but this guy obvously rock alot more ^ ^

[lilmanchris03]

wow...this guy needs to come to poppy moutian bluegrass festival in Morehead Kentucky...he would blow ricky skaggs outta the water!!!!

[TAKENnameARGH]

that is some heavy stuff.. damn!

[Jambo363636]

come on the irish!!!

[beebo82]

he's playing really often in Whelan's

[Vodd9]

He looks like a texan man who got lost in Ireland and plays music because he's out of money.

[KidsOnCrack33]

dublin is full of characters.

[RyusukeSound]

@Vodd9

Story of my life bro

Only I'm an Irishman who got lost in Texas.

[00bert00traver00]

that's not irish :S .... to me sounds like country but i like it ^^

[sexyduck69]

his from ireland

[emddudley]

The Irish actually love American country... it's the strangest thing to me.

[remedy59]

why so strange american country has its roots in irish music ,check it out n youl see im right

[chansherly212]

yeah, they american country and irish fiddle music seem to have many similiarities ^^

[marmaladekamikaze]

That's the greatest load of waffles! hahaaha

[echoceleste]

Yes many of us do love it but people will laugh at you if you admit it. For some reason it's cool to love blues music or for 'rock' singers to sing in the standard fake southern US accent but not to like country music

[oneplusanotherone]

.....i assume you are saying that because you live in ireland because american music has its roots in the blues and in appalachia folk music which all goes right to africa. I guess you could argue that folk music over here has ties to europe by way of instrumental simularity...

[monkeymule]

I kind of doubt that Appalachia folk music goes right to Africa...

please explain the connection to me.

[Zelious12]

Um, actually folk music is mostly a derivative of traditional celtic music. Same thing for bluegrass.

[oneplusanotherone]

The disenfranchised inhabitants of the appalachia region came as dissenters from surrounding plantation colonies. Slave music=blues

Colonists=European primarily protestant English. Not until later did some significant populations of the Scots-Irish come but they primarily went farther west than the Appalachia. The next great wave of Irish immigrantion really stayed confinded in the Northeast/New England

[Zedacabra]

both .... celtic music an africanised slavery folk music

[LeftyAccidkid666]

its called blues douche

[Zedacabra]

Blues is derived from other genres faggot

[mtt2910]

I checked his myspace profile...and ....Fucking right on!!!!!!!!!!

[sexyduck69]

wat is his myspace

[AndyRGuitar]

Lol,,.. thats amaizing,.. damn^^

[hammer280]

Fuckin beast

[LordAudio]

That was amazing.

[vareberg98]

What did the devil give you for your soul tommy!? damn

[Defenderofeyre]

somebody give that man a contract with a very big company!

[zigulyte]

His name's Nial, forgot the last name. Used to play in Whelans in Dublin on Sunday nights - and other random days as well. I believe he's recording an album somewhere in the States currently.

[mtt2910]

Please mate come to rock my town!!!!!

[gearsmate]

holy shit! that cowboy's damn good!!

[guitarcynic]

HOLY MOLY!!

What a great player!

[eSmKeArTicEa]

fuck those dumb people who are passing by...they don't apriciate the music, they just live they black and white lifes without seeing these people. I'm sure he's not doing it for the money, he just wants to share the music with everybody else...but nobody cares.yes there is 1 man who stops, but there are 1000...

[123JoeD456]

they may of had places to be.

[GentleGrace]

ummmm you can not see the people who are standing in front of him. Even the videographer is standing before him. So you are drawing a conclusion from your slighted observation. You can even hear people being responsive, how could they not, he is GREAT!

[figrolls81]

you are a complete fool. he's busking, I.E. if you like what you hear you give money. plus the fact that thats probably the busyest street in dublin during the day. people live lives, they have things to do, doesn't make them anything except who they are. the other two are dead right.

[Weslo2]

plus this video is only a little more than 2 minutes long

those people could have been standing there for 20minutes and already threw money in

[Lman095]

Damn he sure knows how to plucks some strings. =)

[sexyduck69]

even rory gallagher wud b inprised by this

[fitzc1]

I prefer pre-recorded busking...

[lafferlg]

awsome. busking live is great

[capitancriterio]

dobro

ps good

ps jerry douglas

[Booshie321]

ha i see him all the time!

[Yoohanan]

Here you go COWBOY! :D

[pieheavenly]

I SAW this guy playing there, he was pretty aswome

[Romuella]

wild!!!!! amazing:D

[fiddlersfart]

christ slide guitar is wild I love it! I bet hes a bad ass on a keyboard

[psikyc]

yea haw

[username125418]

where is he getting power for the amp?

[ellokito14]

theres actually batery powered amps bro lol i think thats where the amp getsits power fomr

[username125418]

that makes sense. i bet it uses loads of batteries

[soon2beguitarist]

man, i would empty my wallet into his case

[fenderfox94]

were abouts is this?

Its not were he usually is is it?

come on man we need a CD!

Best busker in the world

[stimpsonhoek]

hit MORE INFO for his myspace account, more music and contact him there. let him know how much you all appreciate the music.

[geva90]

yeayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyhy boooooooyy

[RMary]

Thanks, go man go..

Texas Artist here loves you.

[paciborza]

This guy is a legend!!

I love it wen u r at the start of grafton street and u can slightly hear him play and then you go 2 see him

[scrubstastic]

does that guy ever go home? hes always on grafton street!

[DerLangobarde]

verycool

[woodenfolk]

look at n c lawlor @ myspacemusic,com his songs and gigs are there

[cartoonlike]

He got dat Celtic Cowboy thang goin' on. Yeah!

[sheilamaclean]

and someone of this calibre is BUSKING??? NAH, PLEEEZEEEE........!

[StevoIRL]

He's always in Grafton street or Temple Bar great to listen to!

[MadMaxRO9]

damn man. that guy deserves a rich person's checkbook to be dropped in his case

[Shimmasham]

He's awesome!

[lainey500]

sitting on a feckin street get this guy in the studio .......NOW

[Timmiejoe]

Lovely playing!

Very sad with loads of people around only one guy drops a donation into the case during the 2:11 minutes of play.

[Devilock79]

That's some damn fine finger pickin' right there I tell ya what.  Yee-haw!! =D

[darrin42]

Not Irish Music, but class guitaring

[ibanezbloke]

Oh god... why does nobody understand that hes an irish guitar player? as in he was born (Or at least performs in) Ireland. I remeber going into musician inc on drury street, where this guy was trying a new guitar out. all 15 people in the shop were just staring at him. I had to knock a guy out of a trance just to buy the cable I needed. Ireland is the best nation, ever. period

[angelusmortis1412]

fuckin right mate!!!

[MysteryHunterz]

very nice, The guy listened alot to Sonny landreth

[AnunnakiBastard]

Amazing is right! WOW!

[bodhran13]

bloodey hell he can play

well done

[quickdraw0793]

thats not irish

[tilimini296]

hes an irish player u idiot never said atin bout him playin irish music ..and dont go complainin back to me bout this cz im actually irish

[quickdraw0793]

ok, jeez thats all i had to say

[PinePicker87]

daaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmnnn­nnnnnnnnn that was some kickin sheeit right there wish he was in my band

[hipyaboyya]

oh aye,im irish 2, we r class, best nation in the world

[heressShelly]

jaysus its like autumn rush

[0ranjiboom]

*August rush

[pepperhead159]

hes there every day people all know him leg he is see us irish can rock masters of music

[HKelly]

I had to read that about 5 or 6 times before i begun to understand it. You should start using punctuation or something man. and also writing the full words.

[Sojirosaito]

amazing....no one even stopped to hear him

[cathal627]

How can someone that good be unknown???

[sfbds]

i know huh

[Minghaggard]

Aye a record contract could do him good, but i know if i was a amazing guitarist I would busk alot cause its about playing music for feeling not money, its the passion

[michaelnikosey57]

jerry douglas needs to see this guy, he should have a record contract. great player

[michaelnikosey57]

this guy is tooo much, great slide dobro style player,

[Heartkissing7]

wow cool and excellent guitar player, thank you Arden for the share :)) 5******+++++

Peace&Love

Tina XxX

[AMason8634]

Great!

[WolfArden44]

Excellent player.5 stars

[sfbds]

five thats it

10 outa 10

[AMILLENNIAL]

AAAAMMMAAAZZZIIINNNGGG!!!!!

[dixieboy30513]

that guy is awesome!!! that guy should not be busking on the street he should be making records or something

[caperuzzo]

That dude has got mad skillz, some pro should make him famous o_O