Buskin in Sligo played by Peter Hankiewicz

My friend Peter from Frankfurt/Germany posted this video in which he is playing a song by Peter Hoben from Castlebar Co. Mayo. His bouzouki is made in Serbia, it's the first of its kind built there. The sound is superb, as far as I can hear from the video.

By the way: Peter is singer of the band "Blue Blistering Barnacles". For further information visit:
www.barnacles.de

2Duos

2Duos is a Scottish/German project and consists of Aaron Jones, Claire Mann and Gudrun Walters and Jürgen Treyz. They mix German and Scottish songs and tunes in a fresh and lively way. My friend Peter saw them live in Bad Homburg, Germany on 08.04.2010 and posted some videos on youtube. Many thanks to Peter for sharing.

Lorg Lunny - Donal Lunny TV Series

Donal Lunny has produced an eight part series for TG4 in Ireland. He travelled all around Ireland to find young talented musicians to put a new band together. You can see what happened when all the musicians met for the first time, when they had to chose a singer etc. Each episode consists of two parts. You can view it at:

http://live.tg4.ie/main.aspx?cmd=search&search=lorg%20lunny

Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore

Robert Tincher plays a nice version of this well known emigration song. Filmed on Sept. 27,2009 at the Lousville Irish Fest at Bellarmine University.
For more information look at:
http://www.myspace.com/roberttincher

There are a few more songs on which he plays the bouzouki.

This is what is written about him on his Profile:

Robert Tincher has been singing the ballads of Scotland and Northern Ireland since 1973 and has played with several well-known Celtic music groups in Kentucky and southern Ohio. The first, Mad Catherine and the Moondog Pirates, gave many fans their first taste of the music back in the early 1980's.
More recently, Robert was part of Pale, Stout and Amber, who Lexington Herald-Leader music writer Walter Tunis once called "the top local pick for Irish and Celtic music." Although they never widely toured, their 2004 Pale, Stout & Amber CD received international radio airplay and favorable reviews in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
In June, 2007, Atlanta's Southern Arts Federation selected Pale, Stout and Amber as one of two Spotlight Artists of the Month from a registry of 752 performers, writers, and visual and media artists from the southeastern United States who have been recognized for the outstanding quality of their work.
When Pale, Stout and Amber dissolved in September, 2008, Robert relaunched himself as a solo performer. In July, 2009, he was selected for artistic excellence to participate in the Peforming Arts Directory, a program of the Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, which is supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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