Y’all should check out this week’s episode of Canúintí Ceoil on TG 4. It’s a show about regional styles in Irish music and this week’s episode is about Co. Fermanagh. Hosted by Gary Hastings and also featuring great flute playing from Cathal McConnell and Bríd Donnelly. Bríd is married to pipemaker Cillian Ó Bríain and now lives in Dingle, Co. Kerry. When I spent a summer there, I wound up playing with her 2-3 times a week–she’s one of my personal favorites.
Great players and great music.
Thank you!
The whole series is worth checking out. So far, TG4 has run the opening episode, one on Donegal, and one on Clare.
B
nov 4 '07 episode …plenty of action and insight… plus a little taste of master tansey holding court
nov 18 - the corner bar skibbereen - beautiful music
fabulous! i dont know if the introductory episode is still on the webtv, but you can find it on youtube. some great ideas about regional styles by a lot of great players.
Does anyone know when the Slíabh Luachra episode was? It was the one I was most interested in, but I cannot find it now.
Cheers
About a month, maybe 3 weeks. I remember seeing it and talking to my teacher about some things in there. It featured Paddy Cronin, among others. I don’t see it in the archives now.
Thanks for the post. When I click on the link it takes me to an Irish site in which I can’t understand any of the links. Could you direct the gaelic challenged here?
Best regards,
Jeff
click on web tv
click on ceol cartlann, which are basically the trad shows
play video of your choice
the reason it’s in Irish is because tg4 is Irish Language Television.
p.s. Irish is not Gaelic. Two different languages. Similar, but different.
you can just go to http://www.tg4.tv and skip a step or two.
it depends on who you’re talking to. the diaspora call it gaelic, because when they left the country, they still used the term. they started calling it irish to make it sound more nationalistic. the scottish dont care about nationalism, so they still call it gaelic–besides, they still got scots (english).
both terms are acceptable. only in linguistics is the distinction really important, and even then, they usually still differentiate between irish gaelic and scottish gaelic.
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Does anyone with a Macintosh have access to these programs.
I try it and it says I have to upload the latest version of Windows Media Player because I don’t have the right plug-in.
I think I’ve got the latest version.
Michael
It works for me.
Mac OS 10.4.11
Safari 3.0.4
WMV 9.0
I just had a horrible time with my RealPlayer (yuck) plug-in not working leaving me with no access to the BBC’s archives. It took a while to figure out, but I basically just trashed the old player and the plug-ins (HD → library → internet plug-ins) and reinstalled. You might need a restart too. Note that the plug-ins are in the HD library and not the user library.
Good luck,
Geoffrey