Your favorite Aires

Doc Jones · Post by **Doc Jones** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:32 pm

Looking to expand my pipes repertoire a bit (this is not a difficult task).

What are your favorites?

URLs where I could hear them would be a welcome addition.

Doc

BigDavy · Post by **BigDavy** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 8:28 pm

Hi Doc

Here are some of my favourites.

Amhran a Leabhair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz0mRdw_LSM
Sorry it is in whistle - couldn't find a pipe version.

Canan Nan Gaidheal - Scottish (but I am allowed to like Scottish Aires too) - it sounds lovely on flat pipes. It is the first tune in the set.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RObNXnC08Hk
The song - by Karen Matheson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rV6vNmIFi0

Port na bPúcaí
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvPXbIfu9_Y
on pipes by Ronan Browne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csEIxSimJqI

Sean O Duibhir Na Gleanna
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6554
The session has it as a hornpipe

Aisling Gheal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCB70qJl9Yk

Hector the Hero - on guitar by Tony McManus another Scottish one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKf2prznEs4

Hope this gives you some to get on with

David

Steve Turner · Post by **Steve Turner** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:50 am

Hello Doc,

I've got a couple of MP3s on my website, namely, May Morning Dew and Port na pBucai, help yourself

http://www.pipesofireland.com/mp3.html

Cheers

Steve

Uilliam · Post by **Uilliam** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:48 am

AIRES (AIRshower Extended Simulations) identifies a set of programs and subroutines to simulate particle showers produced after the incidence of high energy cosmic rays on the earth's atmosphere, and to manage all the data associated with these simulations.

The above definition is frae the AIRES fascinating website and the picture is one of my favourite aires

Slán Go Foill
Uilliam

djimbo · Post by **djimbo** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:37 pm

Doc wrote...
>>Looking to expand my pipes repertoire a bit (this is not a difficult task).

Gasp.. I always found that THE most difficult task

Hi Doc.
There are a couple of good versions of 'Sean O'Dwyer of the glen/Sean O Duibhir Na Gleanna' played by Liam O'Flynn.
He does it on a D whistle on their reunion album, which makes for easy playing along.
He has done it previously on a C# set (I think) on 'Out to another side'.
The voice squad sing it on that album too as 'After Aughrim's Great Disaster', both of which give a good idea of correct (Or good anyway) phrasing.

I loved the version of Aisling Gheal there on UTube, he's a man after me own heart, using all the bathroom tiles to get some reverb into it. Ah the fine art of toilet playing

Djimbo.

josh perkins · Post by **josh perkins** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:50 pm

Lord Mayo

Cailean das cruite na mBo

ChristianRo · Post by **ChristianRo** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:56 am

djimbo wrote:
I loved the version of Aisling Gheal there on UTube, he's a man after me own heart, using all the bathroom tiles to get some reverb into it. Ah the fine art of toilet playing

Djimbo.

Hmm... Fine art of toilet playing - makes for a good CD title. Thanks for the inspiration - I might make a series of that

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 4:04 am

I like the Derriaire, especially my wifes version !!

RORY

Anasazi Piper · Post by **Anasazi Piper** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 4:10 pm

Hi Doc, I know you're a Lynch fan, have you listened to Kirk's "ST. Stephens Street" off the SCARTAGLEN cd "Last Night's Fun"? One of my favorites!! Also Paddy Keenan's "Johnny's Tune, For The Avalon" composed in memory of his father"
"Anasazi Piper"

Anasazi Piper · Post by **Anasazi Piper** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:37 pm

One more favorite given to us at the O'Flaherty Music Retreat by Mickey Dunne is "Na Conneries", very powerful!
"Anasazi Piper"