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I love the language usage of Newfoundland and Labrador, back in the armed forces in the sixties, I was stationed in Canadian Maritimes and we had a lot of Newfoundlanders, the one phrase that sticks to my mind sounds something like "arn smarn?" both as a question and a greeting. I finally...

Newfoundland is a treasure trove of weird word usage. A few examples: "Some" and "right" are used as qualifiers in place of "very" eg - "He thinks he's some smart" or "He thinks he's right smart". "crooked" is most often used to mean "...

mahanpots wrote: Bear with me SteveB. Or just ignore the post. Fair enough. In retrospect, my comments and those of a few others are a bit OT. The original question was how to play a Cnat roll, not whether one should bother to do so. My earlier rant about the Cnat roll being a "parlour trick&qu...

IMHO, Cnat rolls on the flute are a bit of a “parlor trick”. Technically feasible yes and not un-traditional per se, but a bit extraneous to the music and not really worth the bother. Of course, the technical process of learning to roll Cnat roll would certainly have some positive impact on one’s ov...

I won't ship out of the US without a BUNCH of convincing, so don't ask if you can't justify yourself (and pay a lot more for shipping). What's the big deal with shipping out of the US? Millions of dollars worth of goods are shipped by mail to and from the US every day. There can be a few extra hass...

They played what was popular. They were rough and dirty and famous for their drunkeness. The Irish loved them. I think it's an acquired taste. Some people even like the Pogues. Sadly, they are not widely considered a real Irish folk band as they made the mistake of becoming widely popular amongst r...

Bands like the Dubliners clearly cannot be classed as traditional because: 1)a good portion of their repetoire is of non-irish origin or of known authorship, 2)the songs that are traditional often only date from around the mid 19th century, and 3)The instrumentation (e.g. guitars) and arrangements a...

I don't think ITM as such existed during the 18th century. When you're poor and starving, music is not one of your highest priorities in life. John, this was the part of your previous post that prompted my response. It seemed to imply that there wasn't a very strong musical tradition amongst the ru...

Poverty and oppression have never been an impediment to a strong musical tradition. One only has to point to African-American music in all its incarnations (blues, jazz, R&B, hip-hop). Daiv wrote: this is sort of a side question, but does anybody know of any singing traditions that sound similar...

Similarly Canada can be complicated. The US doesn't charge customs on flutes, I believe. Given that billions of dollars worth of goods that flow back and forth across the Canada/US border each year, I don't see how shipping a flute from the US to Canada could be that complicated. I've had a number ...

Check this out. This has to be the coolest video I've seen in a while. It brought a few tears to my eyes (but in a good way).

SteveB

http://www.jcbsong.co.uk/jcbvideo.asp

Unless there's some flute-related innuendo that I'm not getting, would not the Pub be a more appropriate place for this thread?

SteveB

Which is basically a two-part version of "Frieze Britches".

Quite true. I guess what I meant to point out was that he was not simply playing the first two parts of the same setting of Frieze Britches as he played/recorded with Planxty.

cheers,

SteveB

I think the 1st jig Liam plays in that clip is actually "I Buried My Wife an Danced on Her Grave".


SteveB

Eddy Moloney's

http://www.box.net/shared/oqch9ljb80