Title says it all. I'm looking for some recordings of Irish folk tunes featuring mandolin. Preferably stuff I could find on Spotify.
Thanks in advance!
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Title says it all. I'm looking for some recordings of Irish folk tunes featuring mandolin. Preferably stuff I could find on Spotify.
Thanks in advance!
Ye Vagabonds (Bri’an and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn)
Although they didn't use a mandolin all the time, and they were a mixture of Irish and Scottish, you can't go wrong with The Boys of the Lough.
I suspect there have been times when the Scots and the Irish have come to blows, arguing over whether a tune's origin was Irish or Scottish.
Planxty
Early Dubliners.
Dave H
Wolftones
although mostly 1970s to early 2k - Mick Maloney was one the premier Irish mandolinist, Gerald Trimble though mostly a cittern player and mostly Breton music, also plays mandolin or his arrangements work on mando, and of course Andy Irvine solo or with Planxty, and though not exactly easy music - the Andy Irvine/ Paul Brady album is required listening for Irish mandolin players, why? because I said so.
I think someone recently said never walk all over the singer with a mandolin, a bouzouki, octave, whistle…
These guys do it all the time!
https://youtu.be/dWDkzjbCHmM
https://youtu.be/dWDkzjbCHmM
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OL...b3k-aHVBynN_s4
Forgot Simon Mayor, he even plays Irish mandocello on occasion
I’d second the recommendation of Mick Maloney. The record of Eugene O’Donnnell and Mick Maloney “Slow Airs and Set Dances “ has a couple of tracks with Mick on Mandolin and one on bouzouki , his guitar accompaniment on other tracks is very tasteful. Although I listened to some Trad before I found this record in a thrift store, it’s the record that really set me off on Trad Quest.
I can't claim to be up to speed with young bands from Ireland, but maybe try Lankum (used to be called Lynched), Beoga, Ye Vagabonds (already mentioned), Teada, Nuala Kennedy - especially with The Alt.
If you're listening on Spotify you should find links to other bands.
Younger singers like John Francis Flynn, Lisa O'Neill and Inni-k.
Inni-k's take on sean-nos singing on he album Inion is very interesting, I would say.
https://open.spotify.com/album/5KKhWoDwfhc7W8pAj0VxGX