Happy Saint Patrick's Day to all!!!

[ilovemyF9]

Everyone needs a little/lotta Planxty on this great day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyE3Mye-eks


If you know them, great, if you don't- enjoy some of Ireland's greatest Musos.

Slainte!!!

[Mike Black]

Here is one for you all too.

https://youtu.be/OCbuRA_D3KU

[Tobin]

Two of my all-time favorite ITM tune(s) played by Andy Irvine and his Planxty cohorts: Behind the Haystack, followed by Tripping Up the Stairs. Just beautifully played! Gives me goosebumps every time.

[Bertram Henze]

Not bad, that Planxty one, but I got started off with this band/this set so long ago.

[Toni Schula]

sláinte

[journeybear]

Thanks to google:



Why they have left-handed fiddle and banjo players is beyond me. Seems to me whoever designed this could have googled the instruments to learn the most common configurations for these instruments. At least it looks like a tenor banjo, so there is that ... though I'll warrant that's just a happy accident ...

Anyway, soon enough I'll be playing "Star Of Munster" and "What's Left Of The Flag" for a bunch of folks who may or may not notice they're Irish tunes - nearly the sum extent of our Irish repertoire. Maybe we'll throw in "Dirty Old Town," too. We'll not be doing "Balls To Your Partner," though. We'll be at an upscale restaurant, not a rowdy Irish pub. Thank merciful heavens!

[Timbofood]

JB, they always do those in mirrors!

[Chris W.]

Irish pipes always gets me in the mood for a pint or five

https://youtu.be/YMvBnEvuBuA

[journeybear]

Here's your vid clip. Something went wrong when you posted it.



Don't mind a pint or two meself. Though I was a bit dismayed to learn recently that the Guinness we Yanks get is a paltry 4.4%. Tasty, yes, but not stout enough for my liking.

Sorry, Tim, I'm not accepting excuses for the supposedly smart fellers at google. They should know by now how to do things right. The proof of this is that they usually do.

[Chris W.]

Thanks JB. I was having the hardest time getting a video to embed.

[Timbofood]

I know what you mean JB! They SHOULD know better.
This year I am missing my "Old Bushmills" due to doctors orders, first in over forty years! If I am good, maybe next year.

[foldedpath]

Why they have left-handed fiddle and banjo players is beyond me. Seems to me whoever designed this could have googled the instruments to learn the most common configurations for these instruments.

Well, just to provide one contrarian view:

My S.O. is strongly left-handed and plays a lefty guitar. She's also a fiddler, and plays the fiddle right-handed for basically cultural reasons... i.e better selection of instruments and instruction. She saw the Google doodle this morning and said "Ah ha! See? Someone understands how a fiddle should be played!" Or words to that effect.

She also pointed out that the fiddler shamrock was the largest and therefore the dominant one in the group, reflecting the natural status of fiddlers compared to other instrumentalists. Someone at Google certainly does understand how Irish trad sessions work...

[journeybear]

Faith an' begorrah! There was a wee bit o' reasoning behind the carefully chosen wordin' there - "the most common configurations." I don't mean to cast aspersions nor rain on your lady's parade - far from it, and let her have her day in the sun - but google did mess up. That'd be my line of thinkin', anyway. Well, the luck of the Irish to her, all the same.



Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. –Alex Levine, Quote Of The Day

[Eddie Sheehy]

So the fiddle player and the banjo player are citeogs... Happy St. Patrick's Day...

[Sweetpea44]

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

[allenhopkins]

Had a good St. Pat's, three gigs through the afternoon and early evening. Will be putting Danny Boy back in its case for another 360 days or so.

Worked out with Innisfree at the American Hotel in Lima NY on my Flatiron octave mandolin and Sobell mandola. A half-dozen members of my high school class (1961, if you must know) came out to the gig and surprised me. Neat reunion.