Eamonn Coyne, Clare Mann, Aaron Jones

Some videos from a TG4 programme. There is no information, when this session was recorded.

First Dennis Ryan's and The Cock and Hen


Roscommon reel, Toss the feathers and Cregg's pipes


And finally here's Jarlath Henderson (Uillean Pipes), Ross Ainsley (smallpipes) & Aaron Jones (cittern) at the Gordon Duncan Memorial Concert in Celtic Connections 2007 with thanks to my friend Tom

Donal Lunny at Custiys Music Shop

Donal Lunny playing Bouzouki and Mary Custy playing fiddle with two fine jigs here. I can't understand what the name of the first jig is, the second one is the battering ram.

The Blacksmith

A really good version of the blacksmith by Kyle. He's got a real powerful playing on this one. A tribute to Andy Irvine and his well known version of this song.



And another video:Two tunes from the album Dual by Eamon Doorley, Julie Fowlis, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and Ross Martin calledTha 'm buntata mor / An Bairille. The second tune is also known as The rocky road to Dublin.

Ralf P. Wacker's Irish Bouzouki Book will be translated soon

Ralf, the writer of the German book for the Irish Bouzouki just informed me, that his book is currently translated into English.

The Uilleann piper of his band is studying in Limerick, where she is working on a translation. Let's hope it will not take too long before we can announce a new book for the world market. And I can promise you it will be of great interest for all players of the Irish Bouzouki.

Ralf's websites for more information:
www.ralf-wackers.de
www.currach.de

Beth Patterson with Iona

Beth Patterson together with Iona. Fine live performance from November 22,2009.

First a new song by Beth called Click(?)


This one's by Iona with Beth, Can Wassel

42 Minutes Best of Festivals 2009

SIMMO7TS posted a 42 min survey of some festival shots. First there is Patrick Street with some songs and tunes. After that there's Chumbawamba and Dougie McLean. If you've got some time watch it all, otherless you might enjoy Patrick Street.



And here's some more 38 min, this time just Andy Irvine. Most of the videos have been posted before seperately.

Andy Irvine playing Andylinn by Paul Doyle

Andy Irvine visited Paul Doyle to have some pickups installed. After work he played around with some new Andylinns.

Plains of Kildare:


The Blacksmith


More Blacksmith


Playing around

Andy Irvine on Balcony TV

Recently Andy Irvine was guest on Balcony TV. He played one of his signature songs, Never tire of the road.

Balcony TV was founded in June 2006. It is a leading daily online viral music show, which features band, musicians and other acts on lots of balconies around the world. You can find more information at: www.balconytvc.om.

Ben's Bouzouki Theme

Ben Williamson from Yellow Springs, Ohio is a Bouzouki player who not only plays Irish music but also Bulgarian, Arabic and New Age music. Here's a video of him playing an original tune.

You can find more information on his myspace site.

Here's the site of his band Orion on facebook.

Tunepal

You've heard a tune, but don't know its name? Here's a little helper. Just go to
http://tunepal.org.
Java must be enabled and you need a microphone plugged into the computer. A player opens and you can play the tune. If you play it good enough tunepal recognizes the tune and here you go! Well, I think this is a great helper. Try it and comment, please!

Guitar accompaniment -also for bouzouki players

Here's a little text I found which deals with Guitar accompaniment on Irish tunes I think it is written by Alan Campbell. Lots of tips for players, which might be useful for players of the bouzouki too.

If you are interested in more information: Here you can watch some videos:
http://www.celticguitartalk.com/assets/guitars/recording/video.shtml


And here is the tutorial:
http://www.celticguitartalk.com/assets/misc/sharing/Accompaniment%20Workshop.pdf

The Doggy Few Tunebook

The Doggy Few is an Irish Folk Band based in the Netherlands. They have a nice website at: www.doggyfew.com.
I'm not really good in reading and understanding the language of the Netherlands. But they have a really good tunebook on the website:


http://www.doggyfew.com/doggyfew_tunebook.pdf

They have a cd out with snippets on the website, and a video on youtube:

SlowPlayers.Org Basic tunebook

This is a tunebook for starters with lots of basic session tunes. All with chords, so it's a good starting point for beginners.
http://www.slowplayers.org/BASS/bass2004tunebook.pdf

Paul Hardy's Session Tunebook

Another Tunebook which provides lots of chords for accompanyment is made by Paul Hardy. He made it for Accordion-players, but it is useful for other instruments too.
http://www.pghardy.net/concertina/tunebooks/pgh_session_tunebook.pdf

Paul provides some more tunebooks (a set tunebook, a basic tunebook, a annex tunebook with tunes which will appear in a later version of his tunebook etc.) on his site, look at:
http://www.pghardy.net/concertina/tunebooks/

The Greene Tunebook

By accident I found this tunebook on the web.
https://www.ceilidhsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CeilidhSoc-Favourites-Book-1-20181024.pdf

Here's the original one, the link has changed since I last looked at it:
http://old.ceilidhsoc.org/music.pdf?Special=23&Type=Group

42 pages with lots of tunes, most of them with chords. A great learning base.