De Dannan & Friends ~ Hard Times

[stuffed76]

frankie gavin is a short legged big headed little fucker

[cheerydavie]

Great song sung with great gusto.thanks for posting

[Steviegottagunn]

@enyrb Of the four former De Dannan front men, Maura is the only one who lives in the US, (the rest residing in Ireland, where this was recorded). I'm sure that she flew in, just in time for the "sound check", before the performance. She was most likely a little confused as to how many bars the musicians were going to carry through the bridge.

[musoal1]

That was absolutely beautiful

[fedamorenc]

whos the third singer on this song?excellant.best voice of all!!!!

[malachy1847]

@fedamorenc That would be Eleanor Shanley.. the lady with the short cropped hair....

[lanetemple]

That is a STUNNING and WONDERFUL song .....done by 4 VERY talented people. WOW!

[katsongs]

This is great but IMHO it's topped by Kate & Anna McGarrigle and friends (Rufus Wainwright - son of Kate -, Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Karen Matheson, Rod Paterson) perform Stephen Foster's Hard times come again no more during the Transatlantic sessions. It is on youtube...

[TheSarahDalton]

i like this version and mare whinningham's version for the film Georgia...its so special to listen to...makes me cry everytime

[tunderbomber]

Of all the versions this one stands out. Still I don't know why.

[reddirtgirl55]

AMAZING VERSION. Deb

[danapack40]

?? brilliant reply

[danapack40]

bob dylan's version is awesome

[lawsonbob]

I'm having a bad day today, but even on my good days I really get something out of this song by these artists!

[cuznred123]

i've not heard a more poignantly beautiful, moving, version of hard times than this

[nollaig57]

listen to jerry lynchs version

[starmoloney]

tommy's voice was made for this song! really moving.

[dimhunt]

I'v had Tommy Fleming singing this sone for years, never fails to move me, love it

[RoadOfBorrox]

Go raibh mile maith agat

[johnfinbarburke]

what i mean is that if jay z can do a oasis song ,, why not even more folks step outside the " box "

[NSResponder]

I am so jealous of anyone who was at that concert.

-jcr

[kieranshane]

Tommy Fleming did a great version of "Garden Valley" in this concert (series?).

[johnfinbarburke]

i would love to madonna sing a irish song ..

[luckysplash]

why?

i prefere the irish voice.

[johnfinbarburke]

me to ,lol

[hugalot27]

where are you from?

[craigschirato]

Though we know we are helpless to prevent them, and we understand our plea will go unanswered, we ask, we pray, we beg, hard times come again no more.

[lonesomeroamer]

Saddened yet beautiful

Are the unearthly voices

that must be pouring out

deep down from their souls.

Ah, when shall my desire end

to have their exquisite voices

keep resonanting in my ears

and hearts?

Salute to each of the beautiful singing souls!

[Aintgotmine]

Yez gotta loose da Mandolin thingy! It sounds off key, & it's drownin out da voices.

[bankie104]

A great version of a great song.

[mumogoth]

brings tears to my eyes heard this live from DeDannon many years age back in Limerick when they were just starting out and fell in love with

[toftmf]

What a delight to see many of De Dannan's vocalists assembled together! We need more youtube videos of one of my favorite Irish groups.

[Diabhalta]

Best version ever.

[machree01]

A Great Stephen Foster song.

[hrbech]

I belive it´s a Bob dylon song, but enyvaw a great song

[machree01]

It was written by Stephen C. Foster around 1859, a great song performed well by De Dannan. great stuff.

[machree01]

It was written by Stephen C. Foster around 1859, a great song performed well by De Dannan. great stuff.

[ConHoran]

brilliant

[QuoteOManiac]

I have seen Eleanor Shanley performe this song with two musicians... She also did a good job there

[galinka53]

Used to work with Eleanor - lovely person too

[TakenAlso]

Nice version of this song, thanks for posting.Ally

[loppestreRockus]

I think it's my favorite version of the song. #1, I love Mary Black and Eleanor Shanely. Also, I love how an Irish Traditional group can so easily do a american traditional song. You can really see... or rather, hear the lineage!

[cheerydavie]

@loppestreRockus T#Give my friend tich FReir a listrn on my channel "cheerydavie" he does a great version

...........as this version