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blainemcquinn · Post by **blainemcquinn** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:19 pm

what's the matter with liking bluegrass? It has some of the best musicians around playing that music. Plus it's the music of a people, so it's like someone who isn't irish saying irish is bad. Bluegrass is evolved distantly from celtic music, but it is so different.

PJ · Post by PJ » Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:54 pm

I don't think the comment was directed at bluegrass so much as attempts to mix it with traditional Irish music.

daveboling · Post by **daveboling** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:02 pm

blainemcquinn wrote:what's the matter with liking bluegrass? It has some of the best musicians around playing that music. Plus it's the music of a people, so it's like someone who isn't irish saying irish is bad. Bluegrass is evolved distantly from celtic music, but it is so different.

There's nothing wrong with bluegrass. I grew up in the part of the US where bluegrass originated and flourishes till this day. I didn't care for the video in that Eileen appeared to have the piper on stage just so that the audience wouldn't look at their tickets to make sure they weren't at a Bill Monroe tribute concert.

samiam590 · Post by **samiam590** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:30 pm

Thank you thank you thank you to whoever posted the clip of Mr. Laban playing Taimse Im' Chodladh. My new favorite air...and it led me to a wonderful sean-nos version done by Iarla O'Lionaird. Wonderful.

BigDavy · Post by **BigDavy** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:23 pm

Looks like the Armagh Pipers have got Mikie Smyth in thier sights

Chris McMullen - the Downfall of Paris on a Williams set.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJibMfAo-Ko

Mikie Smyth doing the same

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF8uHVu4Res

David

jimharrison · Post by **jimharrison** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:23 am

BigDavy wrote:Looks like the Armagh Pipers have got Mikie Smyth in thier sights

Chris McMullen - the Downfall of Paris on a Williams set.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJibMfAo-Ko

Nice work - some lovely reg playing. And the young spalpeen didn't even break a sweat!!!

PJ · Post by PJ » Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:54 am

Chris certainly does justice to his regulators. Some nice off-the-knee chanter work too. It was interesting watching his hands - his right thumb hardly touched the chanter when he was playing the regs.

BigDavy wrote:Chris McMullen - the Downfall of Paris on a Williams set.

Are you sure it's a Williams set? The reg keys don't look like DW's work. It looks more like an Arpha set to me.

BigDavy · Post by **BigDavy** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:57 am

PJ wrote:Chris certainly does justice to his regulators. Some nice off-the-knee chanter work too. It was interesting watching his hands - his right thumb hardly touched the chanter when he was playing the regs.

BigDavy wrote:Chris McMullen - the Downfall of Paris on a Williams set.
Are you sure it's a Williams set? The reg keys don't look like DW's work. It looks more like an Arpha set to me.

Yep you are right PJ it is an ARPHA set - my mistake, I thought it was the Armagh Pipers Williams set he was using.

David

Uilliam · Post by **Uilliam** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:41 am

Lovely stuff I really enjoyed that one.Well done Armagh PC.
Suggestion tho to Chris .. dump the fiddle player she didnae play one note o the duet

Slán Go Foill
Uilliam

taity · Post by **taity** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:39 am

heard this and was fantastic

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wAGaUiQpho8

BigDavy · Post by **BigDavy** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:51 am

Wonder why Davy Spillane is the piper of choice for those people doing video montages on youtube?

The latest one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WgxtNJIcpY

David

Roger O'Keeffe · Post by **Roger O'Keeffe** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:13 pm

BigDavy wrote:Wonder why Davy Spillane is the piper of choice for those people doing video montages on youtube?

The latest one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WgxtNJIcpY

David

Because Davy Spillane is the sort of piper that appeals to the sort of person who does video montages on Youtube

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samiam590 · Post by **samiam590** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:51 pm

BigDavy wrote: Chris McMullen - the Downfall of Paris on a Williams set.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJibMfAo-Ko

David

the man's got rhythm! Quite nice playing on the regs as well.

danny · Post by **danny** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:13 pm

Found this of me playin in the subway in NYC, the bass drone is a little loud http://www.revver.com/video/409898/danny-mclaughlin/

uilleannfinlander · Post by **uilleannfinlander** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:05 am

nice playing+sounding set...who is the maker of it?

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