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Interesting viewpoint from Peter Hill's camera on Alec Finn's technique on selected tempos.


https://youtu.be/zaiXZ-7uPdA


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Back in 2011, the amazing Zoukfest team, superbly led by Roger Landes, had Greek trichordo specialist Alec Finn over again to demonstrate his unique style, accompanying the top Irish banjoist Brian...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9pRDNJr2ck

yes, one of the modern National RM1s in the videos at the start, but not these later ones - that's a National tenor resonator from 1931 here


https://youtu.be/n658lRtZ578

A couple of mandolin sets from the first session of 2024


https://youtu.be/6pJefj99Hu4


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The session is on Sunday afternoons from 3 to 6,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWx4SBHYQls


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A few videos from a regular session, led by top Scottish singer/guitarist George Duff, where ex Tannahill Weaver/Ossian/Easy Club fiddle maestro John Martin can be heard. And the legendary Cathal...

https://youtu.be/sZ1nNNUr9lU

Played a few sets and songs at an evening here in Edinburgh remembering the great activist John Maclean, a hundred years on.


https://youtu.be/AdMFp5e0xOs


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Yes, he's leading the way in Scottish mandolin picking. Terrific musician and a charming fellow too, with a great musical future ahead.

I only recently came across this video. I have no recollection of doing it! Glad you took time to look at it! Cheers, Kevin Macleod 👍

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This is beautiful too, freshly released ...


https://youtu.be/-qOkqiHjMGo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDgXzDbWlb0&t=4s


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It is coming up for 5 years since the legendary musician and bouzouki maestro Alec Finn, a founder member of the great Galway based band De Danann, passed away.

His son Cian Finn organised a stage...

George Duff and I contributed to a fundraising evening, towards raising funds to construct a magnificent new memorial in Coigach, Loch Broom in the NW Highlands of Scotland.

It will commemorate...

Gaelic music from the NW Highlands of Scotland, a place called Achnahaird, in Coigach, Ross-shire.

Ali 'Beag' MacLeod on accordion, me on my Gibson F4 mandolin, a 1922 one.

Ali 'Beag' died...

https://youtu.be/DrOaEkcW1s4


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Not a bouzouki, but Scottish nevertheless ...


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Thanks a lot! Ali and I had ancestry in common a bit back from Sionascaig. He was a most charming man, a true Gael.
Moran taing
Kevin Macleod

Lost sight of these old clips in vimeo somewhere, but fun to see again after many years. Sadly, accordionist Ali Beag MacLeod is no longer alive, and very much missed in the Highlands of Scotland and...

https://youtu.be/Iprb3zTCOlw

https://youtu.be/FZP9EJnMnKQ


https://youtu.be/8KX2Tgqbcgo


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Some tracks from a recent gig in Hawick, with Allan MacDonald of Glen Uig on pipes .....


https://youtu.be/dIChvRSHreI


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