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Your feelings towards Irish trad music

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    #32
    beauf
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    Rakish Paddy wrote: »
    That's funny - I have listened to Sean Maguire a bit, but try as I might I just can't seem to get into his way of playing, although I can of course appreciate his skill and mastery of his instrument. Horses for courses, eh?

    My "half interested£ is about the same. I like to hear a master of an instrument. I don't really have any empathy for the music itself.


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    #33
    bodhrandude
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    This would what I would call rocking trad music, the way is arranged and the way different instruments come in through the different reels and for the last tune they all rock it out, but its still the pure drop.



    Or something as magical as the storytelling piper Felix Doran in the Fox Hunt.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #34
    Rakish Paddy
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    Ah, nothing like a bit of the Bothy Band - it was them and Planxty that got me into trad in the first place.


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    #35
    Sugarlumps
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    Despise it, majority of it all sounds the same. At least what I've heard in boozers. Just one massive jam, no structure. Maybe it's a different style of play in secluded areas of Ireland.


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    Rakish Paddy
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    Sugarlumps wrote: »
    Despise it, majority of it all sounds the same. At least what I've heard in boozers. Just one massive jam, no structure. Maybe it's a different style of play in secluded areas of Ireland.

    Unless the musicians are either absolutely plastered, or incompetent, a pub trad session is usually remarkably structured... Anyone 'jamming' at a trad session rather than playing the actual tune will very quickly make themselves unwelcome!


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    BuilderPlumber
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    I think that our traditional music is underappreciated and underexplored. Part of the reason is people have a limited view on what it is. It is so much more than jigs and reels played on a button accordion. It incorporates songs and gentle melodies, etc. too.

    In general, our traditional music is not being properly supported by our TV and radio stations at all. Trad Irish music's twisted and inferior cousin, Country and Irish music (boyfolk music), gets more attention and this is the only type of music I can say I hate. It is a mix of Irish folk music, country music and boyband music and comes across as factory produced, plastic and fake. Its other cousin, Irish rebel music, has become politically divisive but one cannot get away from the fact that folk music always reports history and events like 1916-1921, 1798 and 1969-98 were sure to produce songs just like all major events do.

    I love Irish trad music and all types of music. But Country and Irish (which often takes the place of real Irish folk) is simply awful. White hatted imbeciles singing in fake accents all the time. Some people steer clear of Irish music because they assume that it is this.


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    #38
    beauf
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    BuilderPlumber wrote: »
    I think that our traditional music is underappreciated and underexplored. Part of the reason is people have a limited view on what it is. It is so much more than jigs and reels played on a button accordion. It incorporates songs and gentle melodies, etc. too.....

    I assume there is a thread someone where people post links to their favs?

    YTube is a gold mine for that.

    Radio really reflects a very narrow band of music. With the exception of a few stations.


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    endacl
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    BuilderPlumber wrote: »
    In general, our traditional music is not being properly supported by our TV and radio stations at all.
    Really...? On radio there's all of these http://www.uilleannobsession.com/links_radio.html TV has Come West Along the Road, the annual series of Fleadh shows, The Transatlantic Sessions, Bosca Ceoil, and others. To say nothing of the regional and local stations, internet broadcasts, etc.

    We're remarkably well served by broadcasters in this regard. There's no other 'specialist' taste in music catered for as well as traditional music.


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    darkdubh
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    The album "Promenade" that this comes from is well worth tracking down,may be out of print.Came out on the Mulligan label in the late 70s.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZqbESiA3dc


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    #41
    endacl
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    lisnagry1 wrote: »
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    Have a quick read of the charter, just to see how many rules you're breaking. Then delete your post? Advertising is a pain in the hole for the rest of us.

    There is a thread for music teaching.


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