Irish Fridays

[Globaltruth]

I like the Northern Lights Lat thanks...

Only a day late, try and control your thirst if you watch this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mMRMDogu2c

Prompted me to add this bonus track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIrX5MfNedM

[Lat-Literal]

I like the Northern Lights Lat thanks...

Only a day late, try and control your thirst if you watch this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mMRMDogu2c

Prompted me to add this bonus track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIrX5MfNedM

Thanks GT.

I like those.

[johncorrigan]

Thanks GT.

I like those.

Me also!
Reminded me of this that I got from Padraig...
A MAN BESOTTED BY HIS BATCH

In the Spar supermarket on Merrion Row,
Opposite O’Donoghue’s public house,
When I presented my basket at the checkout
To my dismay it was taken
Not by one of the many Polish girls manning the checkouts
But by a short, stocky, curly, red-headed male Dubliner
Screeching to himself “The Auld Triangle”
By Brendan Behan:
And the auld triangle
Goes jingle jangle
All along the banks
Of the Royal Canal.
He was all bonhomie but not excessively.
He commented on my every item,
But when I handed him
My batch loaf of bread
He seized-up,swooned, swayed, roared:
"Jasus!" he exploded. "A batch!"
He continued as if performing an aria in the Messiah
"When I was in Australia - and don’t get me wrong -
I loved it in Australia - every Dublin man
Should spend time in Australia -
But the one thing I missed was my batch.
After seven years in Perth - Jasus!
You should see the women in Perth! -
When I came home to Dublin
The first thing I did was to go out
And buy myself a batch
And I came home with my batch
And I smeared two slices with dollops of butter
And I made one gorgeous ham sandwich.
The women of Perth, O Jasus, forgive me,
But there’s nothing - not even a Perth woman -
To beat a batch. Thank you, sir. Have a good day.”
- Paul Durcan

[greenilex]

But if it was a woman who baked the batch in the first place?

Lots of people get mystical about bread while ignoring the bakers' union...

[johncorrigan]

Every so often I find I need a good lament to get going on a Friday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFv3o9x_-3g

[Globaltruth]

Every so often I find I need a good lament to get going on a Friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFv3o9x_-3g

Well then JC, great post ...now, from another time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8IbqqnBvIQ

[Lat-Literal]

Every so often I find I need a good lament to get going on a Friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFv3o9x_-3g

I loved this track.......

Well then JC, great post ...now, from another time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8IbqqnBvIQ

........and I was completely knocked out by this one, not least because I can't understand why I have never heard it before.

[johncorrigan]

I know it's not quite Christmas morning, but hey, what the heck!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvT-ZxOiXDY

[Padraig]

... and I bet you did not know Louis Armstrong was born in Ireland.
Slainte Louis! Bottoms up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fIVccLmoq8

[johncorrigan]

... and I bet you did not know Louis Armstrong was born in Ireland.
Slainte Louis! Bottoms up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fIVccLmoq8

Or that the Queen of Sheba came to Galway, Padraig!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB8NhXtgG_A

[Padraig]

Oh, I knew that John. I used to meet her every May when I went fishing in Lough Corrib.

However - It's Friday, it's Irish, and with the Irish logic of irrelevance I give you -

https://www.cmc.ie/events/2017/jun/nonzerosum-world-premiere

I'm leaving now for this concert and I have nowhere else to post it.

[Globaltruth]

Oh, I knew that John. I used to meet her every May when I went fishing in Lough Corrib.

However - It's Friday, it's Irish, and with the Irish logic of irrelevance I give you -

https://www.cmc.ie/events/2017/jun/nonzerosum-world-premiere

I'm leaving now for this concert and I have nowhere else to post it.

This is the right place to post it Padraig...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUf20Pkcf-E

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

[Padraig]

This is the right place to post it Padraig...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUf20Pkcf-E

Thank you, Global. It was strange to see that your first clip showed the very group that I saw and heard this afternoon, though it was augmented by the string quartet shown in my post. Together they gave a memorable performance.
It was followed by a performance of George Crumb's 'Black Angels' which I've seen on You Tube but, as we all appreciate, it has to be experienced live. I'm absolutely delighted that I saw it live in my home town, and that it was introduced by the quartet's cellist, who is a native like myself, and whom I have known and admired as a musician since she was a schoolgirl. A concert to remember.
Global, do you still think this is the right place to post? Think of what all the other musici are missing!

[Globaltruth]

Global, do you still think this is the right place to post? Think of what all the other musici are missing!

Well, we can consider this a preview, especially for The Quiet Corner, as you are quite right and, if you want you should talk again about the concert on the Talking About Music thread..

I would love to see a George Crumb performance live. But I did see Seckou Keita last night, of which more anon. And on the right thread!

[johncorrigan]

Well this is Paddy Moloney (he of the Chieftains) with La Bottine Sourante; so is it a Wednesday thing or a Friday thing...or a Canadian thing? Oh what the heck! I'll post it on a Thursday and here, even though its got a French title.
Le lys vert - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Th79PN290
...and there's laughing in there...I like laughing in tunes.