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Anyone know who this piper is?
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:38 pm
by MikeyLikesIt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqp4I8bNq54&NR
Was browsing Youtube for Irish music and came across this. It says in the beginning it takes place in Kilrush in 1963. Anyone have an idea as to who the piper in the band is? You get a good shot of him playing about 44 sec in.
-Mike
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:07 am
by Cayden
That's the Laictin Naoifa Ceiliband
Among others: Junior Crehan's, Michael Downes, Paddy Galvin playing fiddles, Jimmy Ward playing the banjo. JC Talty is playing the flute, Angela Merry (usually their bass player) plays the whistle (I think), Michael Falsey is playing the pipes. JC Talty, Martin Talty and Willie Clancy also were pipers with the Laictin Naoifa.
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:18 am
by MikeyLikesIt
Great! Thanks Peter.
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:57 am
by djm
If I remember correctly, that bit of film is on the RTÉ VHS Come West Along the Road; not to be confused with the RTÉ DVD of the same title, which has different material.
djm
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:18 am
by Cayden
It was on CWatR, for some seasons a fragment was on the introduction.
FWIW, Michael Falsey is still playing, JC is still at the flute but most of the rest are gone, most recently Paddy Galvin who died well into his 90s.