Celtic Connections

[PatrickOD]

One hand clapping here.

This is a short programme from the Irish Language TV Station, TG4. If you like Part 1, you might go on to cuid a do.
It deals with traditional fiddling in Donegal, and touches on carrying on the tradition with young people.
I can get to all the places mentioned in about an hour, or less, yet I have to confess that the world they portray is a million miles away. But the people are lovely and the scenery is magical.

http://live.tg4.ie/main.aspx?content=605092795393

http://live.tg4.ie/main.aspx?content=605089614849

apologies: part 1 is the 2nd link.

[Globaltruth]

One hand clapping here.

This is a short programme from the Irish Language TV Station, TG4. If you like Part 1, you might go on to cuid a do.
It deals with traditional fiddling in Donegal, and touches on carrying on the tradition with young people.
I can get to all the places mentioned in about an hour, or less, yet I have to confess that the world they portray is a million miles away. But the people are lovely and the scenery is magical.

http://live.tg4.ie/main.aspx?content=605092795393

http://live.tg4.ie/main.aspx?content=605089614849

apologies: part 1 is the 2nd link.

I'll join in the applause PatrickOD.
Thanks for the links.
I'd like to know if there are any programmes you recommend of a similar nature on RTE Lyric.
what do you make of this feller fr'instance?

http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/nova/

Played Lee Scratch Perry once...

[PatrickOD]

Global
I know you guys on World Music have an extremely wide interest, which makes me look like a dilettante, which I am. I'm basically a R3 person, and I visit other radio stations only occasionally. I never took to Lyric FM for the same reasons that I'm not a fan of CFM. However, I sometimes listen to Grace Notes on Lyric. I once contacted the programme for some information on an aspect of traditional Irish music, but am still waiting for a reply, or acknowledgement. Recommendation? Well, I still listen, sometimes.

http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/ellenc.html

[Globaltruth]

:cool2:

Global
I know you guys on World Music have an extremely wide interest, which makes me look like a dilettante, which I am. I'm basically a R3 person, and I visit other radio stations only occasionally. I never took to Lyric FM for the same reasons that I'm not a fan of CFM. However, I sometimes listen to Grace Notes on Lyric. I once contacted the programme for some information on an aspect of traditional Irish music, but am still waiting for a reply, or acknowledgement. Recommendation? Well, I still listen, sometimes.

http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/ellenc.html

That was the programme I was trying to remember, Grace Notes - caught it when I was in Ireland and used to listen to it a while back (er, probably 4 or 5 years). They play some lovely music. thanks again - I'll check both of those out...

As for replies and acknowledgements - r3 can be just the same, seems to depend on the individual presenter and the 'culture' of the show, I still remember that I received a speedy, gracious and full reply from the producer of Words & Music. And i've always been fond of the programme ever since. Not that I can just be bought by a nice email you understand...

I prefer the word flâneur...:cool2:

[johncorrigan]

One hand clapping here.

This is a short programme from the Irish Language TV Station, TG4. If you like Part 1, you might go on to cuid a do.
It deals with traditional fiddling in Donegal, and touches on carrying on the tradition with young people.
I can get to all the places mentioned in about an hour, or less, yet I have to confess that the world they portray is a million miles away. But the people are lovely and the scenery is magical.

http://live.tg4.ie/main.aspx?content=605092795393

http://live.tg4.ie/main.aspx?content=605089614849

apologies: part 1 is the 2nd link.

Thanks a lot Patrick - I have a few friends who will enjoy the link - when the weather's like that you wouldn't want to be anywhere else but at the Atlantic clinging on to the west coast - though on our week's holiday up to that end of Donegal many years ago, it was more like clinging on to Wet Coats. The music is so wonderful, and I loved those two old wifies dancing - I've been really enjoying the arrival on Freeview up here of BBC Alba which has some terrific music programmes, though I'm still learning the schedules.

[PatrickOD]

John
You shouldn't encourage me. There's always something I find I would like to share, and you are turning out to be the fall guy.
Anyway, here's a piece from a legend. I'm sure there are better examples of Sean Maguire's playing available, but there's something really touching about this one. Talk about applauding before the piece is over! They should be taken out and (sh..) banned! See what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMoJK_aH3I8&NR=1

[johncorrigan]

John
You shouldn't encourage me. There's always something I find I would like to share, and you are turning out to be the fall guy.
Anyway, here's a piece from a legend. I'm sure there are better examples of Sean Maguire's playing available, but there's something really touching about this one. Talk about applauding before the piece is over! They should be taken out and (sh..) banned! See what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMoJK_aH3I8&NR=1

Patrick, from the same YT page I really enjoyed this - the music and the faces were wonderful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGzJdoMeoQY&feature=related

[PatrickOD]

''If you feel like singing, do sing an Irish song.''

I felt like singing so I sang this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgwQcUhKceg

[Globaltruth]

He does a pretty good version of the Star of the County Down too...

mind you these fellers ain't too bad either for young 'uns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GbdB7PlGtc

[PatrickOD]

I won't argue with you, Global, or with Van the Man!
Let's dance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G48GyoSJEyM

[PatrickOD]

But, if you don't know a song, and if you can't dance, maybe you could give us a wee recitation?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcteMLCzM-E

[Lateralthinking1]

There was that question some fateful weeks ago - Dylan or Van? I answered Dylan but, not having a life these days, worried about it for days afterwards. It was the most impossible question. Dylan is in my head and Morrison is in my soul. I "found" them both properly in the same year after decades of bits and pieces. For some reason, it was 1989 and I became obsessive, wondering why they had been mostly in the background for so long.

I think Van just strikes a chord with me in the way no artist has ever done. With Bob, the enjoyment is always in the way you have to work a bit harder. And in truth Irish music has always been among the easiest to identify with as "me". Odd because there is nothing of it in the blood. I guess that it goes back to Nick Hornby and "Fever Pitch". The observation that many from the suburban South East would find an easy affinity with all kinds of culture - he mentioned reggae I think - because in many ways there is a total vacuum.

While I am on one of my vehemently anti-England muses - never attractive - I did enjoy that dance clip, Patrick. Two things. It just comes across as very natural and normal. You can almost see the English kids of their age sneering in the corner, quite unaware that it is they who are missing out. Secondly, when I see something like that, I always feel that Irish culture has a similarity with the culture of the countries of the Med. It is I think the lack of inhibition about self-expression. Is this a theme that has been explored in any depth?

[PatrickOD]

Lat, it is refreshing to engage with someone as honest and 'up-front' as yourself. I appreciate your current feelings of frustration on so many fronts, but in the same spirit of honesty I have to say that I don't let things get to me to the same extent. Call it lack of curiosity. That's the way things are and it's not my mission to change anything, much as I would like some things to be different.
I'm glad you liked the two boys dancing. It was an eye opener for me too. I've spent my life not acknowledging the culture that is in my bones, and it is only recently that I have come to realise how proud I am of my heritage but that I have left it too late to make amends. As I get older I remember how little I appreciated the old ways that I grew up in. Scenes like the two lads dancing at the ceilis, where you also had singing and recitations and story telling, had me 'sneering in the corner'. I didn't realise that I was living through a general decline in the old ways, so it is good that there remain a few pockets of tradition and a few dedicated souls who do their bit to pass it on. But, as I said, Lat, I'm not prepared to do anything more than seek whatever light there is and curse the encroaching darkness.

[Lateralthinking1]

Thanks Patrick.

[johncorrigan]

Thanks for all these - great to see the Count back there, Patrick - I've got one of my dad's old EPs out in the shed - must go have a listen to remember the old man. That Irish Heartbeat was a great record - might be the last great one that Van made, though the one with Lonnie Donnegan was pretty good - one of my old pals used to get us lined up for a go at this one from Irish Heartbeat at any old get together - Chieftains are top notch in this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGIJEKSjM8Y