Concertina & Fiddle Music

[ralexhassle]

who are the 2 retards who did not like dat video ?

[DJFozter]

chuffing hell this is pure drop irish trad at its finest

[mojojoXI]

Wonderful !!!

[jochenh54]

Very nice !

[supercalifragelistik]

Anyway Martin Hayes Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[supercalifragelistik]

oops. too much alcohol. Classical violinist.. Sorry

[supercalifragelistik]

trollfiddler just because you don't like it doesn't make it crap. I'm a calssical violinist and love folk music. It's all a very personal thing.

[IrishFidd]

Lovely - Good one Mike!

[rare1oh]

Clean and wonderful!

[fiachra79]

dont listen to towliemcd......i know him well an he doesnt have a clue about music!!!

[towliemcd]

Ah shut up fiachra ya gobshite!!!!You know as much about music as a piece of shit on my shoe!!!

[towliemcd]

the second tune is called the cottage in the glen

[DIATOMUZIK]

Merci d'avoir réuni sur cette vidéo ces deux géants de la musique irlandaise, pour notre plus grand bonheur à tous ! 5 *****

Thank you for this video together these two giants of Irish music, for our greater happiness to all! 5 *****

[alanbreathnach]

Any got the names for the tunes?thanks

[naughtonclan1997]

@alanbreathnach john naughtons reel my grandad wrote it not sure of the other one !!! x

[trollfiddler]

Ah, I remember those days when Hayes used to play Irish music, not the crap he's been churning out the last 15 years.

[gaelicrox]

really great!! martin was a star all his life!=]

[cortez2002]

its good a lot better than other videos of them!

[cortez2002]

zzzzzzzz

[martinmcmutrie]

This is brilliant, and so interesting seeing Martin Hayes so young. Thanks once again for your great work Mr. Bannerman!

[ceemonster3]

somehow, it comes as no surprise to learn which particular "instrument" is "played" by a poster taking it on themselves to offer instruction as to another instrument they do not play and have no clue about....as for "bare knuckle dustups," sounds like one is projecting just a tad.....lovely video, bannerman.

[jppooch]

Hackles still up and teeth bared I see. A bodhran in the right hands is a thing of beauty.

I agree, lovely video and Mary MacNamara's calm grace as she plays in perfect communion with Martin Hayes is a thing of beauty.

[Legacyrxawd]

And I'm guilty of playing both the English concertina, which was good enough for Junior Crehan's brother Vincent amongst others, as well as tambourine (old-style bodhran with jingles, played with the hand) which was good enough for Bobby Casey's uncle, the dancing master and fiddler Thady Casey. But I guess that makes me doubly damned?

Lovely playing from Mary and Martin anyway, I heard them play a session together in Feakle only a few months ago - I thought I'd died and gone to Heaven!

[jppooch]

I am guilty of playing the English concertina as well and expect an almost equal damnation awaits me when I take up residence on the wrong side of the soil.

[noracat07]

lovely...

[ceemonster3]

this is NOT an english concertina. english concertinas are "unisonoric," i.e., button has same note whether push or pull. the rows of buttons look different and are immediately identifiable, so spare us.

it is an Anglo concertina, button has different note depending on push/pull.

[jppooch]

Bit over the top aren't we. Mary MacNamara's cross-row technique is so flawless, calm and smooth, a fan unfamiliar with the Anglo/English terminology and application might just not know they had committed a breach of Irish Concertina Othodoxy. She's a bodhran player and most likely sports a different perspective. No need to come in with one's hackels up pitched for a bare knuckle dust-up.

[Legacyrxawd]

I live in West Clare and I've often heard Anglos described as "English concertinas" by elderly players of the German concertina here, and Mary Mac's concertina was certainly made in England (it's the Wheatstone she got off Paul Davies in Connolly when she was 18) and has a distinctly "English" concertina sound, quite unlike an accordion - which is what polyaty was commenting on.

[comhaltasmad]

Fabulous post.Thank you bannerman.Martin Hayes is so young in it you wouldn't recognise him!Excellent post.

[kgren08]

This is absolutely brilliant great tunes great playing thank you Clarebannerman for your great work

[polyaty]

this is an english concertina,never did have the same sound effect as the accordion.