Sean McGuire - Kathleen's Smiths, The Mathematician

[GerRaffe321]

i grew up listening to this man . even in my own kitchen .. as thats my dad playing the guitar with him :) :) .. he was a great man.

[gstringjohnny]

great post im a pupil of sean's he taught us those tunes at his class in belfast great tunes

[sslagwollag]

No doubt about it aldernyfred, Maguite could have played it your way, do you think you could have played it like him? Thats the question.

[olmmbill]

Incredible fiddling. A real classic. Thank you.

[denisfoley]

Is he Stephan or just a rythemistic dude as in COONEY it doesnt need it

[cboody]

Check out the jigs and reels performances here....

[cboody]

@alderneyfred I think you off base. From a bio of McGuire: "McGuire was only fourteen when his violin playing was broadcast for the first time on BBC radio. In 1949 at the age of only twenty-one, he won the Oireachtas with the only perfect score ever awarded in the long history of the competition. In the 1950s, he became part of a major touring group called the Malachy Sweeney Ceili Band; later he helped form the Sean McGuire Ceili Band and the Four Star Quartet.

[alderneyfred]

But that isn't how you play Irish Traditional Music.........

......I guess some classically trained musicians think that theirs is the only way to play music.

Well, you know all the words, and you've sung all the notes, but you've never quite learned the song, my son.

[malachy1847]

@alderneyfred I wouldn't let you rosin Seans bow........What a Legend.

[katsandroses]

ohhh, to have heard it live!!

[malachy1847]

Yes.... the guy playing rythm must be sweating after that last set!!!.....

[HEADSUPBERKELEY]

Great to see the master McGuire!

Great Does anyone know where tp find Con Curtin playing

[gibsonpaddy]

Music for heaven