Sharon Shannon - The Blackbird

Wonderful piece of music

yeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
this song makes me think of a barn dance, or something like it.
it makes me want to get up and dance, but i camt be bothered normally! does anyone agree wit this?

Correction: The tune is not a hornpipe. It is a type of Irish tune known as a slide.

It's beautiful shashi2005, but not a hornpipe ,nor a slide ,nor Irish,though the queen of Ireland is playing it, no ,it's an ancient Acadian (Cajun) tune called The Happy One-Step, and how apt is it's name !! It sure gets your feet to want to dance or tap,Albainn gu Brath

The word ballad is an amoebic term.

To a modern chanteuse it means a slow song, (Unchained Melody for example.)

On the other hand, the vast Bodleian Libary ballad collection contains tens of thousands of ballads, published from the time of Caxton till world war one.

The huge & definitive Child ballad collection stretches to 5 volumes, few, if any, of which adhere to your purely poetic definition.

This tune is still not a ballad though. We agree on that.

It's clearly a pair of hornpipes.

fantastic song! Sharon is pretty hot too!!

Could someone please tell me what key her accordion is in? That second tune is savage, what the name of it.

The second half of the same ancient Cajun song "The Happy One_Step " ,and I'm with you, I love the refrain of part deux !! Albainn gu brath

aye, that's some ballad allright.

You're very lucky to have her for an aunt. Learn all you can from her. She is great!