garyvol
Unregistered User
(3/5/04 10:08 am)

music question

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Hi Folks,
Our music taste were mild, Beatles music type stuff, me some smooth jazz.
Ever since our trip from Ireland, my wife and I have mixed the Celtic/Irish music into our listening.
Has this happened to any of the other sheep here in Micheles's flock.???
No answers are required.
just curious.
-gary

gillespie
Unregistered User
(3/5/04 12:40 pm)

MUSIC

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I have never been to Ireland "yet"...going in May. I absolutely love the Celtic sound....listen to celtic/irish mustic all the time! LOVE IT....Enya is my favourite

Anita
Unregistered User
(3/5/04 12:58 pm)

Fiddle music!

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I have always loved Irish music, but the trip to Ireland rekindled my love of fiddle music in particular. I had found an old fiddle hiding under a chair in an antique store and bartered with the owner, handing over a porcelain figurine I had won in a draw plus $50 bucks. I started learning to play about three years ago, taking Suzuki lessons, but when I came back from Ireland I have been learning strictly Irish fiddle tunes. It's so much fun, and there has been a resurrgence of popularity in Irish music here. There's even going to be a St. Patrick Day parade in Vancouver this year, and numerous Irish pubs have sprung up and some even offer tradition Irish sessions. Now I'm on the hunt for a better fiddle. I think I won't recover from this disease

garyvol
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(3/5/04 1:08 pm)

music

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Hi Anita,
That is such a cool story. goood luck fiddling. Another instrument of late that the Irish bands play is something called a Dulstema (spelling??). We viewed a local concert the other week, and there with the fiddles,guitars,harps,etc was this fella playing the dulstima instrument, such a dreamy tune that comes out of it.
-gary


PS. Next step for Vancouver is to turn a local river green for St. Paddy's day.

twanda49
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(3/6/04 1:12 am)

music

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I've been a fan of Blue Grass since Hector was a pup. When I started listening to Celtic music, it became obvious that Blue Grass comes directly from the Celtic tradition. Now I can't get enough of either.
Marsha

Michele Erdvig
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Posts: 2251
(3/6/04 2:45 am)

Ceili House

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Hi Everyone,

This is a nice topic. For those that like ceili music you can listen to it on RTE on your computer. They do a new show every week from various parts of Ireland. This is the link: www.rte.ie/radio1/weekend...house.html

Michele

P.S. Gary, is it a dulcimer?

Anita
Unregistered User
(3/6/04 1:31 pm)

instruments

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Gary, what does that instrument look like? Lots of instruments have made their way into Irish music over the years, another one is a bouzouki, which is traditionally a Greek string instrument. I have one, inheritted it from my aunt, it's very pretty, similar to a mandolin, but with a longer neck, and a tear-drop shaped body. Some Irish instruments are quite simple, like the tin whistle, and others are quite complex, like the Irish pipes. Have you ever seen anyone playing the Irish pipes? There's an awful lot to remember with the bellows under both arms and various chanters you don't want to sit too close to the fellow playing those things. You might get injured!

Allison
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(3/6/04 8:17 pm)

Irish music

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Gary, what a great question! We hit Ireland in 95 for the first time...In my car (which is about the only place where I have time to listen to music!) is a shoebox full of CDs. If there are 20 CDs in it, then 15 are Irish, and one is Carlos Nunez, a Galician mucician who happens to play with Irish musicians. (The Galician influence is very strong in Irish music, as I understand.)

We feel extremely lucky to find a pub with local musicians when we are in Ireland. (The seeds of an October trip are germinating in my head now, so I will be back for suggestions for the southwest corner in coming months!)

Anita
Unregistered User
(3/7/04 2:05 am)

green river

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As for turning the river green, well it wouldn't take much to turn the 'muddy'...I mean 'mighty' Fraser green from its present state of deep brown, probably just have to stir up the seaweed a bit. It might be interesting to find out what's been sitting down there at the bottom all these years besides a few sturgeon.

Irene Lee
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Posts: 9
(3/7/04 8:15 pm)

Re: Irish music

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Galicia, Spain is considered the lost Celtic nation. When the Celts moved out of central Europe, they made their home in Galicia and its neighbor province Asturias. They didn't stay long, I believe only a hundred or two years. Caesar pretty much ran them out and those that stayed where massacred.
The capital of that ancient Celtic nation is La Coruna. It were my great-grandparents were born. It was a pleasant surprise to discover the Galician-Celt connection since my husband's great-grandparents all came from Ireland.

The Celts influenced Spanish music not vice-versa. Bagpipes can still be heard and seen in Galicia today. Its Celtic roots are very strong and easily seen on the streets. If you want to hear a great CD that incorporate the two sounds, buy The Chieftain's "Santiago".

It's a journey through Galicia, Cuba (where most of the Galician emmigrants went to in the 1700 and 1800's), Mexico, and Ireland.

It's named after Santiago de Compostela and the city of Santiago, Cuba.

garyvol
Unregistered User
(3/8/04 8:54 am)

music

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Hi Irene Lee
I've listened to some of the Chieften music. I'll keep an ear tuned for Santiago.
The history of the Celtic is interesting. Perhaps their style of music was an influence for when Ireland was invaded by the Vikings. As I understand it, some of the Vikings stayed perhaps due to the milder weather and/or other influences such as music/tradition.

Anita: I think Michele spelled it correctly, Dulcimer.
The instrument is many stringed, lies slightly tilted on a table. The player has two little drumsticks and does a wonderful job of tapping the different strings.
Amazing how he did not miss a note.

-gary

jennifer
Unregistered User
(3/8/04 9:49 am)

Irish Music

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Like all of you, I am a huge fan of Irish music, everything from traditional to contemporary like The Cranberries.
The dulcimer Gary mentioned is a hammered kind. My husband bought me one for last Christmas that is played lying across the knees kind of like a guitar. I am not very good at it, buy my husband can play anything with strings. (I think he bought it for himself

wojazz3
Registered User
Posts: 380
(3/8/04 6:00 pm)

Re: music question

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Hi all:

What? develop a love for Irish music .... hmmmmm

Well, first I bought a tin whistle and worked on that, then I bought a bodhran and worked on that. After all of that, I decided I need a band so my wife decided to play some guitar (she's a very accomplished clasical guitarist) and we scrounged up a violin player who now has to act like a fiddler. As it stands, we have now actually rehearsed once (that was Saturday) which is a good thing because we have our first gig tonight. No, we don't have them all memorized. Thankfully, we all read like crazy so it shouldn't be a problem. By the way, the bands new (trademarked) name is "Under Lough and Quay". I'd love to add a concertina to the group, but I don't think that I can learn to play it that fast. We'll be adding a bass player too. Not traditional, but we need a male vocalist that sings better than I do.

The uilleann pipes are a fabulous instrument and not as overpowering as their scottish cousins. Pat Broderick who owns Cregg Castle along with his wife is an accomplised player. Worth the stay to hear him play.

Another opportunity to hear a variety of celtic music is the NPR show "The Thistle and Shamrock". The website is at:
www.npr.org/programs/thistle/
and you can find when and where it plays in your area from that site.

Bill

edhodge
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(3/8/04 7:43 pm)

music

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Bill, still cracking up about your "Lough and Quay"- too funny!

We found it so interesting to listen to the car radio in Ireland. We soon figured out why they love our country music- the Irish roots are as obvious as a 6 month old dye job.

Since we were blessed to hear such great trad music in Ireland, I now listen to Clannad, Enya, Sarah McLachlan and the Chieftans a lot. I also bought the Irish Rovers the other day (remember that old song, "The Unicorn"?). Couldn't resist some pub songs CDS but most of all, we love the CDs that we bought in the pubs, featuring the folks playing that night. Next time I am buying every single one they offer!

If anyone goes to Malachy Kearns' Bodhran shop in Roundstone, please check for a CD for me. They were featuring a CD of Irish Women, playing in the shop and I am kicking myself daily for not buying it then. Just need to know the name of the CD so I can buy it off the 'net.