Geantrai on TG4 - Help!

Sky King

Mods- please dont move to TV or Music forums since there might be music fans here who don't browse the TV forums and vice versa - I'm more likely to get answers here (even if 99% of them are smart arsed)

So anyway I landed on TG4 last night and chanced upon a music program. I am not really into trad so I usually give these programs a miss when I am channel hopping so i don't know what made me stay watching it this time.

Anyway there was a three piece band consisting of a guy playing fiddle and singing, a man giving it socks on harmonica and a woman with a guitar. I thought their performance was outstanding. I was really impressed. They weren't playing trad as such... it wasn't fiddle de dee music - it sounded more american influenced (bluegrass etc maybe??) but I am usually not exposed to this kind of stuff so i can't name the style but I thought it was just deadly.

So I looked up the name of the program today and apparently it's called Geantrai (http://www.tg4.ie/en/programmes/geantrai.html) but the web page is scant on info and I was wondering if anyone knows who this act are?

I would love to see them do a full set (I only caught the last 3 mins of their tune).

Anyone any ideas? Failing that, please feel free to post a banal reference to any of the following:

Blasting things with piss
Face kicking
Your mother

bodhrandude

Yeh caught most of this last night, It was from the Harp Tavern in Sligo and presented by Cathy Jordan with most of her group Dervish and other musician guests aside. The bit you were talking about was Rick Epping I think on Harmonica, Sheamy ODowd on the fiddle (on and off Dervish member) and Kathy Jordan on guitar. Will see if I can locate this and send you a link.

Edit: This just references it so will try to find the playable bit. http://www.tg4.ie/en/programmes/geantrai/this-week/geantrai-week-2.html

Found it http://www.tg4.ie/en/tg4-player/tg4-player.html

Sky King

Would really appreciate that thanks

Sky King

bodhrandude wrote: »

Found it http://www.tg4.ie/en/tg4-player/tg4-player.html

I don;t think that's it...

Sky King

Oh wait no I found a link to it down the bottom!

Thanks.

What kind of music that?

bodhrandude

Appalachian I think, but Out on the Western Plain is a song Sheamy has always done, he is a big Rory Gallagher fan and in some ways Gallagher done the penultimate version of this. The last tune is actually Irish or possibly Scottish, its the reel Jennys Welcome to Charlie, but the group has sort of Americanised it to keep with the flavour of the song.