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A friend put me on to this lovely bit of playing featuring bouzouki, harmonica & drum.
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While I was enjoying listening to Flatwater Fran from Colin Botts, this gem popped in from him! An original waltz named for his eldest daughter.


https://youtu.be/Do_Vjelxw8s?si=zUaEWeeD8i-xv3x6

https://youtu.be/hb-lLIL_gIo

Recorded raw straight onto the iPad, which I think fits the style the tune/song is played in.

Arr Dominique Rivière

The OM is in effect tuned down from the...

I love the way Paddy Fahy often plays around with the modality of his tunes, typically by messing with the 3rd and 7th scale degrees. (The 7th, in the case of this particular tune.)

Thanks for...

Pishdaramad-e Rast-Panjgah by Ebrahim Azhang پیش​درامد راست پنجگاه - ابراهیم آژنگ
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Hava Nagila הָבָה נָגִילָה (Traditional Jewish song)
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Please enjoy my arrangement of Sí Beag, Sí Mhór for solo mandola. Cheers!

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

Hi Dagger:

I love that music and play it on my English Border bagpipes by Jon Swayne and schäferpfeife by Thorsten Tetz, which are very similar to the cornemuse du centre that Julian Barbances is...

This is a nice video of a band called Cadene, who seem like they are from Central France. The pipes are certainly from there. (Cornemuse du Centre). Really nice, I think. Pretty funky looking lot as...

Don't be silly. You can't kill a banjo.

This Irish/American Reel goes back to at least 1883 and is usually known by the "Jenny Picking Cockles" title, and that it is a reel setting of the jig "Cailleach an Airgid."

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It's coming up for a year since my dear pal Ali Beag MacLeod left us, and such a duller place without his wonderful wit, presence, knowledge and Gaelic musicality. A few waltzes for his memory, with...

Jim Griffith passed yesterday in Tucson Az. Big Jim, as most folks called him was a large man who left a bigger legend. Anyone who played acoustic music in Tucson from about the 60's to the 80's was...

A contemporary Irish musician who is a great singer (and bouzouki player) is Daoiri Farrell. I completely accept that this is a meaningless/cheap/trite comparison, but he sort of seems a bit like an...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6WFHnZ5cDE&lc=Ugxf_w4Fe1yxjjFB3jl4AaABAg

This is my little set of tunes “Sir Charles Coote” and “Miss Murphy” by O’Carolan.

https://youtu.be/P83xoV8M-g8

Toomas Rannu
Flat-backed mandolin, crafted by Viljar Kuusk in 2008 (Tallinn,...

https://youtu.be/bPs76Ygj4D4

I don't like Bruce Springsteen but I've learned to not mention that in my circle of friends.

But this is a wonderful place of discussion. I like A's also.

At BalFolk dance events you can meet German dances Zwiefacher or Alsace dances "Valse à 5 Temps".In Bohemian, region in the Czech Republic, you will find an analogy and these are dances called...

This Swedish walse from West Gothland was published in two books: one voice in one book and one in another, both for violin. I put them together, made some changes in the low voice and here it is:...

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And then there is this....


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My friend shared this with me, I hadn’t seen it here (sorry for the duplicate if I missed it) so I had to post it:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ-NhyctOho&feature=youtu.be
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Just noticed this while playing The Pausteen Fawn (I have Ryan's Mammoth on my music stand right now and I randomly play tunes as I flip through). It struck me as kinda funny when I imagined the type...

No Bluegrass. I thought I'd be playing Blues and Jazz when I first bought a mandolin, coming from a guitar background where that was most of what I played. Instead, I fell down the following rabbit...

Let's all be thankful that we can hold the pick as we want to. There was a guy at the local jam whose arthritis was so bad, he had to glue the pick to the side of his index finger; otherwise, he...