De Dannan - Reels

A couple of reels played live.
Frankie Gavin - Fiddle
Alec Finn - Bouzouki
Aidan Coffey - Accordion
Colm Murphy - Bodhran

David Gill

David plays a song by John Lennon called Oh my love. I never heard the original version, but it's a lovely song. He plays his bouzouki like a guitar. Nice work.


Here's another song called This Lullaby. It's a cover from QotSA (Who is this?)

Lark in the Morning/Paddy O'Rafferty

Lark in the morning and Paddy O'Rafferty played on bouzouki in ADAD tuning. Fine work.

Donal Lunny, Noel Hill, Liam O Maonlai & Hothouse Flowers

Cailleach an Airgid
Taken from Donal Lunny's "Sult - Spirit of the Music" TV series - recorded around 1996.

Irishtune.info

A link I always wanted to post but always forgot. Here you can find information on lots of tunes, find out the most recorded tunes, most cited albums, tune books and lots more. So many information, this site will catch your attention for a long time.

http://www.irishtune.info/

Irish Folk Weekend Bonn

I'm back from Irish folk weekend in Bonn. We all had a great time playing together. Thanks to Sabrina, Ekhart and all the others who made this weekend possible. This time we were 10 bouzouki players. We learned the tunes Far from home, Jim Donoghue's and the song Aragon Mill besides some techniques and Rhythms. On Friday evening there was a concert at Fiddlers Irish pub with Séan Reeves & FEW, who are Séan Reeves, Michael Lempelius and Jonathan Williams.
Here is some information about them:
http://www.fiddlers-bonn.com/index.php?id=198
It was a fantastic show that night.

Here are some pictures of that night:
http://www.fiddlers-bonn.com/index.php?id=171&tx_jmgallery_pi1[albumUid]=17&cHash=a8046f588b

On Saturday there was a Session at Fiddlers:

Here are some photos:
http://www.fiddlers-bonn.com/index.php?id=171&tx_jmgallery_pi1[albumUid]=18&cHash=80795b9f66


This time I did not capture the workshop tune. Sorry for that. Instead I post some videos from the bouzouki workshop by Michael Lempelius. First is a song called Aragon Mills:



I will post chords as PDF as soon as I finished them.

Next a Song by Richard Thompson called Beeswing:



More information about the weekend:
http://www.doubletop.de/workshop-bonn.php

NKForsterGuitars

What's a bouzouki blog without Links to Luthiers. Nigel Foster has built the new Cittern for Aaron Jones.Here's a link to his site with some photos of this Zouk.

http://nkforsterguitars.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html
Here's the main link:
http://nkforsterguitars.blogspot.com/

Tejedor

Tejedor, a band from Asturies with a song called Xoto de Punta. Great video.

Berrogüetto

Berrogüetto is a folk group from Galicia. Lively modern folk with deep roots in celtic music.

Rosendo en Sabaxans


Fusco

Altan

My friend Tom (www.irish-like.com) gave me the link to some Altan videos. The bouzouki player is Ciarán Curran.

The sunset


The boxty set


Is the big man within


Altan Bo Mhin Na toitean /Dark haired lass


Another video

How to convert a guitar into a bouzouki

There a some websites to be found on the net which might be useful for those who want to try out the bouzouki without spending too much money. Just take an old guitar and make some adjustments. Here are some tutorials, some with lots of photos. But don't blame me, if it does not work!








https://www.keithhemsley.me.uk/guizouki.php


You can find another article here:
http://www.dennishavlena.com/mandolin.htm

And another article:
http://www.frets.com/FretsPages/Luthier/Technique/Guitar/Structural/8StConvert/8stconvert.html

and another one:
https://imgur.com/r/Luthier/3Jm5Y


Converting a 12 String Guitar: http://www.dennishavlena.com/bougit.htm

Ceilidh Soc - Tunes

Another site with lots of tunes. Search and download selected tunes as abc or pdf. Great service.
http://www.ceilidhsoc.org/music.html

Michael McGoldrick, Donal Lunny & Bruce Molsky

Another video from the transatlantic session series. Fantastic tune.

The Kitchen Musician

A great site with lots of songs and tunes. Best of all: The chords for accompanying are written down, too. Great site to learn some more tunes.

http://www.kitchenmusician.net/pages/kmmusicalpha.html

Guide to accompaniment for Irish traditional music

Some good tipps and advices for the accompaniment of trad Irish music to be found on this site. Just have a look at it:
http://www.tiompanalley.com/index_files/tunes/accompan.htm

Here you can find some tunes, some with mp3 to listen to:
http://www.tiompanalley.com/index_files/tunes/TunesLst.htm#HandOut

David James is the 2002 All-Ireland Champion, the only American to win solo senior All-Ireland Championships in the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann (Festival of Irish Traditional Music) on the hammered dulcimer. He received a Master Folk Fellowship award from the Indiana Arts Commission in 1990, and another Individual Artist Award in 2000. He has won many US Midwest Fleadh titles on the dulcimer, fiddle, in trio competitions, in traditional singing and newly composed song categories.

David has performed and conducted workshops from California (e.g., Lark In The Morning Music Celebration, Mendocino) to Maine (Song of the Sea, Bar Harbor). Recent standouts were the 2005 Goderich, Ontario, Gaelic Roots Week, 2005 St. Joseph County Firefly Festival, the 2004 Evart, MI Funfest (over 150 workshop attendees), 2002 Cork (Ireland) Dulcimer Festival, 2000 and 2001 Kentucky Music Weeks where he taught dulcimer and fiddle, and the 2001 Indianapolis Irish Festival where he and partner Kim Hoffmann demonstrated Irish music and song styles with over 300 children.