SET OF TRADITIONAL IRISH AIRS

This video features a couple of 17th century Irish Airs written by Turlough O'Carolan - "Hewlett" & "Carolan's Concerto".

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ireland
• irish
• music
• pub
• session
• reel
• jig
• mandolin
• fiddle
• bodran
• banjo
• dublin
• guiness
• craic
• belfast
• polka
• hornpipe

[vldas]

where u learn stuff like this?

[Klezfiddle1]

I learnt most of my Irish stuff from a series of amzing books published by David Mallinson,called "101 Essential Irish Session Tunes"...there is a whole series of these books,listing all the most popular jigs,reels,hornpipes,airs & polkas used in most pub sessions.Try ordering a copy from any branch of Hobgoblin Music,UK

[les57]

hi didnt you live in walkden on cecil street,

i remember you busking near the halifax b.s.

in the 1980.s

[Klezfiddle1]

Yep!That WAS me - wot a small world!All these years on,I STILL feel pangs of guilt for the POOR Halifax staff - after listening to the frankly bloody awful racket I made for 2 hours at a time,they then had to count all the BUCKETS of loose change that was chucked in my case!All this, in between teaching piano to TERMINALLY tone deaf brats,& GRIMLY determined OAPs for 10 long,miserable years...NOT so happy days!!;o)

[Klezfiddle1]

Glad you like it!I was lucky enough to find this cute 1920s mandolin,back in 1995 for just £95 in what is now Hobgoblin Music in Manchester.Had to get new finger board & tuners fitted;it is not loud,but has the sweetest tone of any mandolin I have ever played :o)

[ApFaq]

Nice. Thank You

by the way, are you Jewish or Irish?

[Klezfiddle1]

OY VEY!I do have a FEW "Non Kosher Celtic Connections",going back to one of my great great grandparents!

[mikewitney]

i lived in cecil st in walkden number 7 the white one on the end from 1969 to 1981

[vldas]

thanks, ill check it out

[Donegaldan]

His religion is irrelevant, he has likes Irish music and plays well.

[Dorski1]

What's wrong with Jewish Irish? The greatest character in literature is the Irish Jew, Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses.

[jollyholly]

much better