Irish Fridays

[johncorrigan]

Gay McIntyre, 1926 - 2021, died this week. Here he is(the very last shot in the video) playing Danny Boy. He was Jazz King of Derry. Sorry if you have been watching this space - technical impossibilities. I live in hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrb9aXJ9shY

hooray

Lovely stuff - Derry looks like a nice place, Padraig.

[Globaltruth]

Gay McIntyre, 1926 - 2021, died this week. Here he is(the very last shot in the video) playing Danny Boy. He was Jazz King of Derry. Sorry if you have been watching this space - technical impossibilities. I live in hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrb9aXJ9shY

hooray

Thanks Padraig.

Last time we visited Derry was 2013 - which seems frankly unbelievable.

From me, here is another from the singing island of Arranmore, their festival "Féile Róise Rua"

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

It's been even longer since we've been to Arranmore...

[Padraig]

Thanks Padraig.

Last time we visited Derry was 2013 - which seems frankly unbelievable.

From me, here is another from the singing island of Arranmore, their festival "Féile Róise Rua"

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

It's been even longer since we've been to Arranmore...

I've never been to Arranmore, G, to my shame. But at least I now know who the Rose of Arranmore will always be. Lovely video and wonderful Ellen Gallagher.

[Globaltruth]

I've posted a couple of songs from this documentary already - now, here's the full thing - 28m 54s of joy.
Why wait till Friday?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2COWk_-90Y

[Padraig]

I've posted a couple of songs from this documentary already - now, here's the full thing - 28m 54s of joy.
Why wait till Friday?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2COWk_-90Y

Thank God it's Tuesday G. Brilliant film. A cast of stars indeed and no mistake. Many thanks.

[johncorrigan]

Thank God it's Tuesday G. Brilliant film. A cast of stars indeed and no mistake. Many thanks.

Seconded. Loved that, GT.

[Globaltruth]

I'm glad you both liked it. I'm a fan of that film maker, Myles O'Reilly, so there likely will be more.

[Globaltruth]

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

I'm wondering what you'll make of this...

as compared to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz8iKCGs0QU

[Padraig]

Not hard to choose here,G. A great song, made for a pub on a lads' night out, sung in a good arrangement with humour and enjoyment to an appreciative audience. Mind you, they worked hard to achieve that spontaneity and precision. Loved it.

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

[Globaltruth]

Bit of a greatest hits revisit today....
a great live rendition of Casadh an tSúgáin

https://vimeo.com/329625528

(there's no escaping from an Irish Friday and for me it involved ola dhubh, )

[johncorrigan]

I am enjoying the new Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan record so much. Here is Karine singing that Irish classic, 'The Parting Glass', with Dave's beautiful piano accompaniment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INI5nUs75nY

Happy Irish Friday.

[gurnemanz]

I am enjoying the new Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan record so much. Here is Karine singing that Irish classic, 'The Parting Glass', with Dave's beautiful piano accompaniment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INI5nUs75nY

Happy Irish Friday.

Thanks for link. I had missed her new album despite being a Polwart fan. I've just greatly enjoyed it on Spoty. I find the voice/piano combination to be the purest, most intimate and communicative utterance - from German Lieder via French mélodies, taking in English song from Gurney, Finzi and others, up to Randy Newman and Joni.

[Padraig]

Delayed from last week - the mighty Steve Cooney adds another award to his collection. Joseph K - you might like to suss out his guitar technique(s) - they say it's quite remarkable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n_ZgqY92kE

[johncorrigan]

Delayed from last week - the mighty Steve Cooney adds another award to his collection. Joseph K - you might like to suss out his guitar technique(s) - they say it's quite remarkable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n_ZgqY92kE

That was terrific, Padraig - I didn't know Steve Cooney had Australian Aborigine roots - great bunch of players in there...the rhythm had me thinking of Donal Lunny and Friends from 'Bringing It All Back Home' playing 'April the Third', a real favourite of mine from years back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NezGhSYGW00

[Padraig]

A great mixed bag today - a video covering two songs, with interesting background notes from Muireann Nic Amhlaibh and husband Billy Mac Fhlionn. The first song is Port na bPucai, Song of the Fairies, associated with Iarla, Sean ORiada and others, and with Seamus Heaney through his poem The Given Note,; the second is a traditional call to action, Oro se do Bheatha aBhaile, Welcome Home, usually in a rebel interpretation but here a call by the performers to solidarity in the face of the pandemic. It's worth hearing both.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8YIP5QHtqI