Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh

Found on youtube:
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, well-known traditional singer and musician of Danu fame sings "An Spealadóir" (a West Kerry song) and together with Michelle Mulcahy onn accordion follows with two reels: "The Caucus" and "The Wind That Shakes The Barley". Accompaniment is by Billy Mc Glynn on guitar(it's a bouzouki, of course).

They were recorded at the Peig Ryan Tribute Concert held in June of 2007.

Aaron Jones in Germany 2008

Aaron Jones will be in Germany on tour in 2008. Here are the dates:






11.Apr.2008 20:00
Neue Schmiede Bielefeld
12.Apr.2008 20:00
Franziskaner-Kloster Saalfeld
13.Apr.2008 20:00
BÜZ Minden
16.Apr.2008 20:00
Pauluskirche Wuppertal
17.Apr.2008 20:00
Bürgerhaus Stuhr
18.Apr.2008 20:00
Weserrenaissance-Schloss Bevern
19.Apr.2008 20:00
KUZ Dieselstrasse Esslingen
22.Apr.2008 20:00
Prisma, im Bottich Pforzheim

You should go there. He's one of the best Zouk players. Watch his site:
http://www.myspace.com/aaronjoneszouk

Christmas time again

I wish everyone a merry christmas. Have a good time with your good friends and family. It's time to have a little holiday. I'll be back next year.

All the best

Klickie

Snaarmaarwaar

A group from Belgium. Mandola, Mandolin and Guitar, beautiful sound. Look at their site:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=170929796

Ana Alcaide

Live in Madrid, 28.11.2007. Here's a Polska. It sounds really medievial.


And here's Parte 2.Seguidilla


This is Junto con Carlos Beceiro y Dimitris Psonis

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