31 Aug 2007

DRD

A new video from DRD. Nor further information available. Bouzouki, Flute and Fiddle. Great video.

Salamanca reel por Xaiva, Noci band o como carallo se llamen

Salamanca reel is played here by some Musicians at the Festival de Peiteiros 2007. Very powerful.

Russ Rentler (aka Dobrodoc)

Russ is playing an original song on his zouk tuned GDAE. Like this one a lot.

14 Aug 2007

Mandola playing on youtube

Here's a solo on mandola, the tune is Cunla, known by Planxty and others:



Here's a real nice tune called Rochdale Coconut Dance



I really love this one, well made boys!

Some tunes played by fiddle and bouzouki on youtube

Here are some tunes I found on youtube:

First two reels in E minor and one in D:


Then two reels: eileen curen's and another



Here comes a jig:



the wild swans at coole



some g minor "version"

7 Aug 2007

Kasir - Killavil jig /The Cicada / The Paper Bird

The group Kasir live from "Det Bruunske Pakhus", Denmark,2006. Fine playing. You can see an octave mandolin made by Jimmy Moon.

1 Aug 2007

Old blind dogs

One of the finest Scottish folk bands around.

this is a video from 1998 at lowender peran.



No zouk, on this one, but nevertheless fantastic. On this video you can see Jonny Hardie, the song is the Barnyards of Delgathy.



This must be a new one featuring Aaron Jones on Cittern. Very short extract only.

Josep Maria Ribelles & Carlos Beceiro

Cittern and Harp together playing some tunes from Catalonia.

31 Jul 2007

Spellbox

On their site on myspace they discribe their music as "Songs to commit suicide by".
www.myspace.com/spellbox




Uneasy Chair live at Cincinnaty ODDitorium:



Glory Bound:



Merciless Night:



Tragic:

Blarney Pilgrim /Morrisons'

Kougata has published this video on youtube. It seems he is a multi-instrumentalist, as he has posted 5 videos with different instruments.

Randy Clepper at Evart Funfest 2007

Randy is playing the the tunes: Martin Wynne's number two and number one. He plays a Sobell 10 string cittern:



Here are some close shots:

25 Jul 2007

Fling, Irish folk out of the Netherlands













Here's a great folk band from Netherland. They have got three Bouzoukis made by Heiner Dreizehnter. On their website you can download some sound snippets from their albums. Give 'em a try.
http://www.flingmusic.com/

16 Jul 2007

West Coast Of Clare

This is my first own video I post to youtube. I'm playing my old Stevens Bouzouki here, trying to play the intro of West coast of Clare, one of the best songs by Andy Irvine. This is nearly the arragement he once played live on his bass bouzouki. I restringed my zouk for this to achieve that bass bouzouki sound.


Here's the tab for this intro,  I made it with Tabledit



10 Jul 2007

Taylor's traditional tunebook











A collection of over 500 traditional tunes. You can select in the upper right of the page.Scottish, Irish, English, Welsh tunes and more.
http://www.contemplator.com/tunebook/index.htm
You'll find lots of songs, too at:
http://www.contemplator.com