Pettersson & Fredriksson

A song called Juli. Played by Pettersson (nyckelharpor)& Fredriksson (läpmandola) and Connan (bouzouki)

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

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.

Irish Flute Tunes

I came across this site by accident. I was looking for the notation of Crowley's reel and found this great site. Lots of Flute tunes to be found here. Michael plays them on his flute, once slow and then faster. Great work, if you don't have a flute player just capture his playing and accompany him. Good for trying different backings. Sounds better than playing to midi flutes on my sequencer.

http://irishflute.podbean.com/

Free Irish Music Downloads

Here's a website where you can get legal free music downloads of Celtic Music.

http://www.freeirishmusic.com/

Chordmaps

Music theory isn't a simple thing. That's a field I'm always working on, so many things I don't understand. Here's a website that can help a lot.

http://chordmaps.com

The chordmaps you can find there are very interesting. Starting with simple chordmaps, until you find very complex ones. You can work on chord progressions, and suddenly you understand a lot more than before. How does a chordmap work? Just start your chord progression with Chord I. Then jump to any chord on the map and start your way back to chord I using the arrows. Try it out.

Kasir: Killavil jig - The Cicada - The Paper Bird

What a discovery. Kasir from Denmark play a lively mix of celtic music.

Web: http://www.kasir.dk/index-eng.html
Myspace: http://www.kasir.dk/index-eng.html

Oisín - Eckerman bodhrán
Rune - Borsini Accordion & Colin Goldie Overton whistles
Aske - Martin Guitar, Moon octave mandolin, Kasuga mandolin

Joseph Sobol and David DiGiuseppe - cittern and accordion

East Tennessee State University professor Joseph Sobol on cittern and Chapel Hill, NC accordionist/multi-instrumentalist David DiGiuseppe playing a short jig. Great playing!

Fred Morrison, Michael McGoldrick and Donal Lunny

You gotta see this. Real fantastic playing. What a band!

Medley - Farewell to Uist, The Lochaber Badger, RIP the Badger:

Fred Morrison - whistle and pipes
Michael McGoldrick - whistle and pipes
Donal Lunny - bouzouki
Jerry Douglas - dobro

Dolores Keane - Craigie Hill (1982)

Craigie Hill performed by Dolores Keane and Reel Union.

John faulkner - Bouzouki
Mairtin O'Connor - acordion
Sean Keane - flute
Eamonn Curran - whistle

Unfortunately you can't see too much of John's zouk playing. Nevertheless a real gem.

Lord Franklin

A song about Admiral Sir John Franklin (April 15, 1786 – June 11, 1847) who was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. He mapped almost two thirds of the northern coastline of North America. His last expedition disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The entire crew perished from starvation and exposure after Franklin died and the expedition's icebound ships were abandoned in desperation.

I first heard this song from Pentangle long ago. Two years ago I bought a record from a group called Arcanadh. On this there is another great version of that song. Listen to it, if you get a chance. http://www.arcanadh.com/

The bouzouki I'm playing on this video is made by Stevens, Munich, Germany. I bought it secondhand some years ago. Look at: http://www.guitars.de/

Lyrics and Tab: http://insel.heim.at/jamaica/320453/bouzouki_songs/Lord_Franklin.pdf

Tab made with Tabledit http://www.tabledit.com/

Andy Irvine - The Ballad Of Tom Joad

performed at a Woody Guthrie tribute show in Whelans, Dublin - 3/10/07. Not high quality, but better than nothing.

The maid that sold her barley

There are many versions of that song, but I prefer the recording of the group Déanta. Whatever happened to these great musicians? PDF with lyrics and chords at: http://insel.heim.at/jamaica/320453/bouzouki_songs/maid.pdf


The bouzouki I'm playing on this video is handmade by Heiner Dreizehnter, Leutkirch, Germany. Unfortunately he died about two years ago. RIP!

{t:The Maid That Sold Her Barley}

It’s [Gm]cold and raw, the north winds blow

Black in the [F]morning [Gm]early

When [Gm]all the hills were covered with snow

Oh then it was [F]winter [Gm]fairly.

As [Gm]I was riding o’er the moor

I met a farmer’s daugh[Dm]ter

Her [Gm]cherry cheeks and coal-black hair

They caused my [Dm]heart to [C]falter.  

I bowed my bonnet very low

To let her know my meaning.

She answered with a courteous smile 

Her looks they were engaging. 

"where are you bound my pretty maid 

It's now in the morning early?"

The answer that she gave to me 

"Kind sir, to sell my barley."

"Now twenty guineas I've in my purse 

And twenty more that's yearly.

You need not go to the market town 

For I'll buy all your barley.

If twenty guineas would gain the heart 

Of the maid I love so dearly

All for to tarry with me one night 

And go home in the morning early."

As I was riding o'er the moor

The very evening after

It was my fortune for to meet

The farmer's only daughter.

Although the weather being cold and raw 

With her I thought to parlay

The answer that she gave to me 

"Kind sir, I've sold my barley."

Yoyotimmy

Yoyotimmy brings us two instrumentals on his zouk. First Lark in the morning, a 4-part jig


Next Brian Boru's March


Lament on Con O'Leary's Wife's Death



Fine work, yoyotimmy, love this a lot!

Julie Fowlis w/ Jenna Reid & Donal Lunny

My favourite Singer Julie Fowlis in a new Transatlantic Session. You gotta see the fun they have playing that fantastic song.
Seo 'N Làimh Mo Rùin
(The drink would be in my Love's hand)

Transatlantic Sessions series 3 (2007)

bouzouki - Donal Lunny
dobro - Jerry Douglas
whistle - Michael McGoldrick
guitar - Russ Barenberg




Here's "The blackest crow"

2nd fiddle : Aly Bain
flute: Michael McGoldrick
guitar: Russ Barenberg
dobro: Jerry Douglas
bouzouki: Phil Cunningham
bass: Todd Parks
percussion: James Mackintosh
vocals: Julie Fowlis



Embedding is disabled, but I got it to work, anyway, so have fun!

Three Drunken Maidens

I learned this song from an old Planxty recording. Thought I could play it, too. Here's a part of my version. You'll find the words and chords underneath the video.

{t:Three Drunken Maidens}

{c:}

There [D]were three drunken [G]maidens Came [A]from the [G]Isle of [D]Wight 

They [D]drank from Sunday [G]morning Nor [A]stopped till [G]Saturday [D]night

When [Em]Saturday night came round me boys They [D]would not then go [A]home

Then [Bm]These three drunken [G]maidens They [A]pushed the [G]jug a[D]bout

Then [D]in comes bouncing [G]Sally, her [A]cheeks as red as [D]bloom

“Move [D]up me jolly [G]sisters and [A]give young Sally [D]room

For [Em]I will be your equal be[D]fore the night is [A]out.”

And [Bm]these four drunken [G]maidens they [A]pushed the [G]jug a[D]bout

There’s [D]woodcock and there’s [G]pheasant, there’s [A]partridge and there’s [D]hare

[D]There’s all sorts of [G]dainties; no [A]scarcity was [D]there

There’s [Em]forty quarts of beer, me boys, they [D]nearly drunk them [A]out

And [Bm]these four drunken [G]maidens, they [A]pushed the [G]jug a[D]bout

Then  [D]up and comes the [G]landlord; he’s [A]asking for his [D]pay

It’ a [D]forty shilling [G]bill, me boys, these [A]gals have got to [D]pay

That’s [Em]ten pounce apiece, me boys, but [D]still they wouldn’t go [A]out

And [Bm]these four drunken [G]maidens, they [A]pushed the [G]jug a[D]bout

“[D]Oh, where are your [G]feathered hats, your [A]mantles rich and [D]fine?”

“They’ve [D]all been swallowed [G]up, me boys, in [A]tankards of good [D]wine.”

“[Em]And where are your maidenheads, you [D]maidens brisk and [A]gay?”

“We [D]left them in the [G]alehouse, we [A]drank them [G]clean a[D]way!”

Adam Page playing Nickel Creek's Smoothie Song

Fantastic zouk playing. I wish I was so fast.

Slide

A stunning live performance by this fine group.

Bracken Finally Falls!

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Here's the flying pig:

The Flying Pig Video

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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.

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"

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.

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.

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:

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/

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

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