Concertina Music From Noel Hill

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Noel Hill from Lissycasey,County Clare. (Clare is home of Concertina Players) The first reel "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" was made famous in the early 60's by Mrs.Elizabeth Crotty from Cooraclare/Kilrush,County Clare. She called it "The Reel With The Beryl."

Noel Hill is one of those standard-setting voices in Irish music today. Few musicians in any field or in any generation achieve a position where both audiences and experts agree on their preeminence and mastery of an instrument; Noel Hill's virtuosity has firmly established him as the defining Irish concertina player of our time.

Noel Hill comes from County Clare on the west coast of Ireland, where the concertina tradition is so strong the instruments was nicknamed "the Clareman's Trumpet" and legend has it there was once a concertina in every other household. It was into one of these households that Noel Hill was born, and as a young child Noel was forbidden to touch his older brother's concertina. But he couldn't keep his hands off the instrument and was always stealing away with it. One day when his brother was laboring through a hornpipe Noel gave himself away by taking the concertina and playing the tune with ease. That got everyone's attention, and he's had it ever since.

Noel Hill has taken the humble concertina from the house dances of County Clare on the west coast of Ireland to stages throughout the world. The concertina, like Irish music itself, is currently enjoying a tremendous increase in popularity, and Noel Hill is at the forefront of this movement, not only as an awe-inspiring performer but as teacher and a well respected authority on Ireland's music.

In his hands the concertina is a new instrument, yet resounds with the integrity of generations, for Noel Hill makes the music new not through experimentation in other genres, but through consummate exploration and illumination from within traditional Irish music.http://www.noelhill.com/

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[Cavanpiper]

Show me the crossroads I'd sell my soul to play like that.

[CharmedQuarkZ99]

WOW ! BRAVO !

[guitarbeasts]

bet he gets all the irish girls;)

[hhold]

Top class

[Lisnageeragh]

Wonderful playing ..by a younger Hill! Great to hear the' Mice' in his playing!...especially in the Trip to Durrow.

First reel was a favourite of the late Mrs Crotty. Lovely bright sound.

[HolyRomanEMperor90]

Planxty Noel Hill.

[chrisbrinn]

Both tunes are in F#, or I suppose Gb. At least, that's the scale I found them in. Love the version of the Trip to Durrow. Mighty, mighty music.

[bruceleeC64]

Savage out

[grimacekiller]

can anybody tell me what key this is in

[Christineekins]

That was really grand!!

[Oranger37]

101st like, woot