The Green groves of Erin - The Bothy Band

Embankment Tallaght Dublin
September 1976

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bothy
• Traditional
• Embankment

[gisellesparrow]

Love this song sooo much...I'm a young adult and while most are listening to shitty rap I'm listening to the bothy band....badasssssssssssssss

[DJFozter]

The first 25 seconds are just pure beauty

[chriszones2010]

Greetings from India

[epower94]

THIS IS SAVAGE !!! :D

[swannielake]

I was introduced to The Bothy Band over 25 years ago and I still cannot get enough of them :~)

[MrThereisatree]

@MisterTeeeEeee uilllean pipes

[seonidh]

@Dayepipes it is held that the pastoral pipes were the ancestor of the union/uilleann pipes it shares so many features of the later modified instruments including 2 octaves. As musical tastes changed the instrument was improved to play staccato the low C# removable footjoint and the chanter was modified. Also the union pipes were modified improved by makers all over the british isles Ireland, scotland and england from the mid-18th to 19th centuries Hugh Cheap's 2009 book is an excellent source.

[Dayepipes]

@seonidh Right about the term "union", but the pastoral pipe was a somewhat different instrument, before unions, its chanter has the low minor 7th note below the drone like Highland chanter that the union/uilleann pipe gave up --possibly for superior upper 2nd octave performance. These are very tricky instruments to perfect. We today who make them may not have all the expertise that created the best of them. There's too much variation in performance these days.

[seonidh]

the term Uilleann is a new term about 100 years old the instrument was a pastoral pipe and then union pipe before the gaelic makeover by Flood.

[harrykee]

@MisterTeeeEeee sounds dead romantic Uilleann (but it just means elbow) lol

[caiolexrock007]

@MisterTeeeEeee is a Uilleann Pipes

[Drweavil]

Has to be my all time Favourite Bothy Band number. I defy anyone to listen to this without tapping their hands or feet away to it !!!!