Alan Stivell - Ian Morisson Reel (live)

[audaciousguy1]

This is perfectly awful. It might have been good with just the pipes and an acoustic guitar.

[52ilyas]

the only problem with this video is the sound mix; less volume on the band and no one gets shot! 52ilyas

[Smithwicks4Breakfast]

Shoot the fcuking band! Please stop trying to make it contemporary. Go back to the style you had "A L'Olympia". Unplugged with good backing singers. Every modern video of Stivell makes me want to hit something

[Pierre696969]

@Smithwicks4Breakfast

Better shoot yourself!! Alan Stivell is a genius! It really doesn't matter, if he does it old style or modern, he can handle everything. He keeps the great Breton music alive forever. But one will always find some nerds, who just aren't capable of understandfing Stivell.

[Smithwicks4Breakfast]

@Pierre696969 "Shoot the fcucking band" wasn't meant literally. It's an expression used (often jokingly!) in english speaking countries. I have listened to Stivell since 1980 and consider him a genius and a gentleman.

I feel that the other musicians in this video (NOT Alan Stivell!) are inadequate and unable to interpret his music appropriately.

[66gadus]

ultimate 'folk-rock'!

[thelonepiper555]

The tune he's playing is the Scottish reel "John Morrison of Assynt House." Though an usual approach, he made it enjoyable to listen to!

[ivebeenthere1]

love this...wish I'd been there.....excellent music!

[Brannruz]

but he knows how to play the bagpipe? ... here it looks like he has a cat under the arms crying... he doesnt keep the rythm with the drums... but the band I like...

[IlStudioso]

Wow, he makes it look so effortless. I heard that playing the veuze, bombarde, binioù takes a lot of breath.

[ffwrchamotobeics]

Tueddu i Bendroni mae o!

[alain1986]

vive la bretagne!!

[IlStudioso]

It seems that one half of the Celtic nations (Scotland, Ireland, and Brittany) use bagpipes, and the other half (Wales, Cornwall, and the Isle of Man) do not use it. I would really expect it to be used in the Isle of Man, though, as it is a Gaelic country too just like sister nations of Scotland and Ireland. Well, overall, I greatly appreciate Celtic culture, and am currently learning Manx. I fell in love with ot and have been teaching myself the language ever since.

[MegMerrilies]

There are Cornish bagpipes which are undergoing a revival and Welsh but you are right, no Manx. There are also Northumbrian pipes in England. Great you're learning Manx!

[hannigan06]

I guess it's was ever blows a areas hair back bag pipes or none.

[fionndan]

therea re pipes all over europe. historically most countries from the middle east westward had some form of wind instrument with a bag and reeds. nowadays they are still played in bulgaria, poland, serbia and many other countries

[danstortion]

@fionndan Here in Italy in the region of Bergamo we have the baghèt.

[funkybrezhoneg]

wow, kozh-tre eo ar video-se!!!

dreist-tre!

[fifilafrance]

oui, c'est un vieux machin cette vidéo-là mais c'est du glaw stuff, si tu veux mon avis!

[funkybrezhoneg]

c'est quoi du glaw stuff, stp?

[fifilafrance]

est-ce que je sais moi ?

N'ouzon ket !

[funkybrezhoneg]

hehe, ok, kudenn ebet

[fifilafrance]

kudenn ebet ha mezh ebet !

[fifilafrance]

ian morrison's reel has not other name!!

[kornflakes13]

what is the new name?? I must know! I would apreciate!!

[barskian]

facet jest mistrzem :D

[Hemulen40]

Great guy ! Love his bagpipes !

[Hemulen40]

Have heard this piece with fiddles instead of bagpipe , but this one rocks too. In Sweden Stivell´s last album was voted ´Best Record All Categories´ . So the man is quite well-known and well liked even outside ´the Celtic Fringe´.

[vagantmusic]

I bet this is GHB - not the cornamusa.

[tommykay69]

saw him live in a field in somerset. So chilled yet influential.

[anaisbzh]

ouais!! ce soir il passe à Brest !! je vais le voir !!

[jilehan]

Il est merveilleux !!! Même si on peut aimer

les arrangements plus traditionels. Merci !

[Burankhan]

He's a great harpist, a good piper, and an ok singer. ;)

[thelonepiper555]

I didn't know he could play pipes like that!

[the1rjmac]

someday I've gotta see this guy.

[CFR206]

Look at www.alan-stivell.com where upcoming gigs are listed. Over the next year or so he is only planning to play in Brittany. It's about time he played in the UK again! Have seen him 4 times at various points in the past and is well worth catching.