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Darren from the Blarney Pilgrims here and this week we have a great chat and handful of tunes with Barry Kerr. Here a little blurb on what we get talking about. The Liam O’Flynn Award. Digging into the Irish Traditional Music Archive. Ulster hunting songs and mummers. Hare coursing. Life in Lurgan C...

Just finished listening to it. Awesome! I think that one was my favourite so far. Keep up the good work :). Thanks Sedi. We're taking a few weeks off interviewing over Christmas but we'll be back in January. Over the next few weeks we'll be putting up some "best of 2020" episodes that are...

It's taken us 80 weeks but we have our first all whistle episode that I'm happy to share here. Here a taste about what we get chatting about: The legend. ‘We just kept climbing up that mountain.’ The hardest working woman in folk music. Hearing Mary Bergin and the beginnings of a career in the enter...

Rita sent us a great video to go with the episode too. This is her playing Alexander’s and O’Higgins

https://fb.watch/2iY2YvWMjL/

Sedi wrote:Thanks for the heads-up! I really like your podcast.

Thanks Sedi. I think this is a really nice episode so I wanted to share it far and wide.

I've shared this here and in the flute section. I hope that's ok but Rita is a great player and plays both in this episode. Anyway there's so much in here, like: piping as meditation and not setting fire to the old Ganley flute. Starting on the whistle but falling for the pipes despite the danger. T...

So much in here: piping as meditation and not setting fire to the old Ganley flute. Starting on the whistle but falling for the pipes despite the danger. The eternal conversation: reeds, drones and regulators. The session spaces of Belfast, open piping closed piping, Tommy Reck and saying ‘I Love Yo...

Interview with Manchester flute player Michael Walsh. Here's bit of what we talk sbout: " ‘England gave me everything I ever wanted.’ " The Quarehawk. Big Tom, Margo, the Manchester scene; Irish, English, and in-between. A love of England and making a whole out of two halves. Grieving, and...

Jig songs, syncopation and keeping away from the funky chicken tunes. Playing out til 4 in the morning with your dad on a Fleadh Saturday night. The magic of Donegal, chancing your arm for a Riverdance audition and not talking to Maria Carey at the pyramids. Finding your own musical voice. Battering...

Thanks for the link, very interesting listening. Any body know the name of the jig that plays at the start of these podcasts ? Cheers Hi Eagach, the name of the tune is The Roaring Barmaid. It was lifted from a recording Dom took one night at the Last Jar in Melbourne. The session would have been l...

Brus wrote:

BlarneyPilgrimsPod wrote:That Gort Tape.

Is this available anywhere on the internet? I've heard much about this, but I haven't heard it.

Hi Brus, check your personal messages.

Cheers,
Darren

Hello, Shannon Heaton joins us on the Blarney Pilgrims Podcast this week. Hope you enjoy, it's such a great chat. Details below: ... A Belgian neighbour in Nigeria and a first encounter with the recorder and whistle; traditional music in Thailand and a global musical imagination; Maria Carey, melism...

Hi Free Reeders. I've shared a few of our other episodes in other sections of the site, but this is the first accordion one. I hope you like it. Here's a bit about the epiode: ‘A good reel would wipe the cobwebs off his heart.’ Last Night’s Fun and Joe Cooley, a -kick-you-in-the-chest-kind-of-accord...

Discovering the uilleann pipes on a road trip to Donegal; oils on metal; generative art and music; not settling in Northern Ireland; MIDI pipes and the Cardiff scene; restoration and the mysterious conversations which only pipers understand. Thoughtful and engaging stuff. In this episode Jason plays...

The name of the tune after Dan Collin's is The Caravan. If/when I get the name of the one after Hula Hoop I'll post that too.