Irish Fridays

[Globaltruth]

More pubs John. In happier days for us, and for the Wisconsin women featured here, a pub in the town centre in Derry providing just the sort of surprise you refer to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcJagerw8cM

One of my all time favourite songs Padraig, and this is a proper version. Thank you for posting this.
Here's the first version I ever heard, live in a tent in Whitby, a very long time ago, sung by the V-Squad introduced by Norma Waterson who gave them the highest praise possible in one of the warmest intros I have ever heard.
This is how they finished their set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD2gZDcGa_I

[johncorrigan]

More pubs John. In happier days for us, and for the Wisconsin women featured here, a pub in the town centre in Derry providing just the sort of surprise you refer to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcJagerw8cM

Would bring a tear to a glass eye, Padraig! Wonderful.

One of my all time favourite songs Padraig, and this is a proper version. Thank you for posting this.
Here's the first version I ever heard, live in a tent in Whitby, a very long time ago, sung by the V-Squad introduced by Norma Waterson who gave them the highest praise possible in one of the warmest intros I have ever heard.
This is how they finished their set.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD2gZDcGa_I

Would be great to hear a bunch of folk singing it live again, Global. Thanks for that! I think I've told this story before, but the first time I ever heard this song, I was on a course deliverd by three people who had come over from the States. At the end of a fine week where people had bonded very well, there was a farewell meal. One of the women, a rather eccentic woman from Northern Ireland, who had a fairly pronounced stutter, stood up unannounced and gave a farewell speech. Nobody was quite sure what she would do...she said that it was traditional to sing this song as people were leaving - those who knew her just felt a sense of uncomfortable embarrassment about what might be coming next. Then she started to sing, and she had the most glorious voice, and no sign of her speech issue in sight...by the end many were in tears, the Americans in awe, and me left in wonder at the amazing and surprising version of this song that I had not known before.

[Globaltruth]

I think I've told this story before, but the first time I ever heard this song, I was on a course deliverd by three people who had come over from the States. At the end of a fine week where people had bonded very well, there was a farewell meal. One of the women, a rather eccentic woman from Northern Ireland, who had a fairly pronounced stutter, stood up unannounced and gave a farewell speech. Nobody was quite sure what she would do...she said that it was traditional to sing this song as people were leaving - those who knew her just felt a sense of uncomfortable embarrassment about what might be coming next. Then she started to sing, and she had the most glorious voice, and no sign of her speech issue in sight...by the end many were in tears, the Americans in awe, and me left in wonder at the amazing and surprising version of this song that I had not known before.

No you hadn't (I keep notes obv.) - that's a wonderful story. thanks for sharing.

[DracoM]

Voice
Squad - what a discovery - many, many thx for that!!

[Padraig]

A different kind of performance. You know when informal gatherings can generate party pieces? Some are terrible but some win the day against the odds. This man demands respect, do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edgDIG8Ni9A

[johncorrigan]

A different kind of performance. You know when informal gatherings can generate party pieces? Some are terrible but some win the day against the odds. This man demands respect, do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edgDIG8Ni9A

Looked like the dark stuff was being partaken of, Padraig.

And talking of dark, when you get the dark days don't you just long for a day tramping across the hills over on the west coast? I do, and so does Robert Wilson for that matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPY4YspqeL0

[johncorrigan]

I could still do with a trip to the pub, despite this cautionary tale...mad bit of filming this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc3noEGh2RI

[Padraig]

I could still do with a trip to the pub, despite this cautionary tale...mad bit of filming this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc3noEGh2RI

Great stuff that Guinness - but we'll have to change the tone, John, or our reputation for sobriety will be damaged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TascsWZPj8U

[johncorrigan]

Great stuff that Guinness - but we'll have to change the tone, John, or our reputation for sobriety will be damaged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TascsWZPj8U

I suppose I've got a better chance of a wee drink of the vino in a church than a pub right now, Padraig...although no singing in a pub or a church...whit a crazy mixed up old world it is right now. Anyway, that was very enjoyable, thanks.

[Padraig]

I was impressed by today's Bach on Friday - it was a song with accompaniment, a singer and three instruments; a lovely Baroque piece.
Then I remembered saving this Irish Friday piece because it was a lovely traditional quartet - flute, fiddle, box and bouzouki. Though so different the two quartets shared a quiet confidence in performing their respective tasks, and I got a similar pleasure from each.
This is An tSeanbhean Bhocht and the Edenderry Reel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULRrYowJmYw

[johncorrigan]

I was impressed by today's Bach on Friday - it was a song with accompaniment, a singer and three instruments; a lovely Baroque piece.
Then I remembered saving this Irish Friday piece because it was a lovely traditional quartet - flute, fiddle, box and bouzouki. Though so different the two quartets shared a quiet confidence in performing their respective tasks, and I got a similar pleasure from each.
This is An tSeanbhean Bhocht and the Edenderry Reel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULRrYowJmYw

Loved it, Padraig. The 'Edenberry Reel' was a right heel tapper.

[johncorrigan]

I enjoyed Declan O'Rourke on Radcliffe's Folk Show the other night - this is from his most recent record .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN2NaDbmAUk

Happy almost Irish Friday.

[Padraig]

I enjoyed Declan O'Rourke on Radcliffe's Folk Show the other night - this is from his most recent record .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN2NaDbmAUk

Happy almost Irish Friday.

. . . It is now.

Looking up some information on another song, John, I came across a very different 'Erin go Bragh' from what I was expecting. I'll leave the other song for another time and offer you this - a Scottish song about the Irish. There's a fabulous version by Dick Gaughan, but I have chosen this version by Hannah Rarity because it also includes the words.

https://hannahrarity.bandcamp.com/track/erin-go-bragh-2

Edit - On reflection, here is Dick Gaughan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zu1HtV00qw

[Globaltruth]

Bit of elbow piping - Long overdue...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsN4rY1D83o

[Padraig]

Bit of elbow piping - Long overdue...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsN4rY1D83o

Good one G. Timely indeed.

Here's a rare one - a jazz fiddler, a trad fiddler and a song that's neither jazz nor trad but still Irish. Does it pass for Irish Friday?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QZiFmOe4Mo