Harp Music -- Paul Dooley

From the Crosses Of Annagh Pub, Miltown Malbay,County Clare at the Willie Week 1997.
http://pauldooley.com/

Paul Dooley is one of the very few Irish people who play the Irish harp in its historical form and style - using a metal-strung harp, playing with the fingernails and damping unwanted string resonance with the fingertips.

Paul studied the construction of medieval Irish harps in Dublin during the early 1980s and has built several harps. He started his performing career on the metal-strung harp in 1986 and has appeared on numerous CD recordings and television soundtracks.

His repertoire consists mostly of traditional Irish dance music, including jigs and reels, some of which he has learned from recordings and printed music but mostly learned from other musicians: pipers, flute players and fiddlers. This music proves a real challenge for any type of harp and consequently hasn't been explored very much on the instrument.

Paul has also spent the past ten years working on the Robert ap Huw manuscript, the oldest collection of harp music in existence.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Harp
• Ireland
• Irish
• Traditional
• Session
• Gaelic
• Clare
• Miltown
• Malbay
• Willie
• Clancy
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[Xerxes4242]

I can't find any CDs on iTunes or Amazon.. does anyone know where I can find them?

[clarebannerman]

@Xerxes4242 Read the notes under the video and click on his web page. This will give you access to his new CD.

[MegMerrilies]

Beautiful tunes, amazing playing. I like the start of the vid too!

[myrddin6]

Wonderful....thanks clarebannerman.

and thankyou Brian (LoveMattersMost) for the send.

[missEmer12]

bahaha hes my mammy's cousin

[liamnora]

@clarebannerman

I got his CD when he was playing on top of the Cliffs of Moher in July 2005.

He might be there again someday, and he sells his CD's out of a backpack.

I also left one in my car rental in dublin. It was a ford I think.

Hope this helps, Joe

[Xerxes4242]

@clarebannerman I can't believe it took me 4 months to get this.. oh well, I buy a lot of CDs! This video has a lot of watches on my ipod.

Can't wait for his CDs to arrive!

[MegMerrilies]

Fantastic, the cry of a curlew and Paul Dooley on metal harp! Thanks for sending it to me.

[Xerxes4242]

No wonder so many of my favourite musicians cover his work.

[mcnutt10]

This is the sound of the traditional Gaelic harp. What harps in Eire sounded like a 1000 years ago. Paul is incredably fast and acurate. I must meet the man on my next trip over.

[stevanikof]

aren't ye great!