Tommy Peoples

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[xlacrosse3793]

id kill to be able to do triplets like that

[clarebannerman]

His daughter Siobhán is also a lovely fiddle player.

[MyJoodles]

@clarebannerman We had the luck to meet Tommy in Ennistymon on our first visit to Eire in 1990, I had been playing Fiddle a few years but wanted to play Trad Irish having been inspired by some of Tommy's recordings, He was so kind, Generous & encouraging, A Lovely Gentle Man! God Bless & Play on!! He is the most sensitive & heartfelt Fiddle Player I have heard!

[dwcoleman01]

He is really good. I could never get the ornamentation so I took up old time. I remember hearing Tommy at the Fleadh in 1977, I think it was at the Kings or Queen's Hotel and I arrived after the whole thing was over. I had just heard about Trad Irish.

Anyway, I love his fiddling but everyone has favorites and I like the soulful playing of Martin Hayes and of course being from Chicago, Liz Carroll is another favorite.

[bobdylansblues]

@dwaynedibbly your not listening.

[PhysicsForTheFuture]

@dwaynedibbly It certainly isn't flashy like some of the guys in the touring bands, but it has an intensity and drive to it...again perhaps like his personality. I will go for this over Kevin Burke say. But all is cool.

[dwaynedibbly]

i find his playing so boring like his persoanlity.

[BrainFPatterson]

@humanity4408 He has one paricular triplet effect (among the many subtle variations in his aromoury) which involves ficlking the bow with the pinky. I've seen him do it concert. His former pupil Michelle O'Brien, a great player in her own right, has taken it a step further for an even more percussive effect.

As for Peoples's style, I think it transcends geographical classification. A lot of his ornmentation and bowing are very un-Doneal in character, though the influence is there.

[deterdettol]

@malek321 @memecine Tommy Peoples did compose Black Pats.

The second tune is not Black Pats, it is actually The Beautiful Gortree, also composed by Tommy Peoples. In his Quiet Glen album, he played it after The Cup of Tea.

[malek321]

@memecine That's weird because I know for a fact that Tommy composed Black Pats.

[richiem95]

@cathyshere2 Yes its three notes in the space of two - triplet

[memecine]

The first tune is "Silver Spire", the second is "Black Pat's", but I'm not sure it is his own composition; on his CD "The Quiet Glen (An Gleann Ciúin)", he plays it with "Bonny Kate", which is credited to him, but the credit for "Black Pat's" is 'Trad'. Lovely, brilliant music in any case. A wonderful fiddler, which he performed more in public.