long video of catherine mcevoy’s playing … http://vimeo.com/62389575
marin
Thanks for posting the link. Would someone remind me of the name of the second tune in the first set?
Thanks and best wishes.
Steve
West Clare broadband is not really up to HD video streaming but I got some fragments quickly out of the first four minutes or so: Love at the endings into the Green Gates.
Green Gates.
Thanks Mr. Gumby. It’s so sad to get older and have to deal with an archaic mental Rolodex…
Best wishes.
Steve
Not much different here, I can tell you..
Thanks for the link.
Mr Gumby - does turning HD off help ? Bottom right of the vimeo ‘screen’.
Great vid, thanks for sharing
Works fine with HD turned off and picture quality isn’t greatly reduced. Great flute playing from Catherine.
Also the Raw Bar Collective here with Conal O’Grada http://vimeo.com/29478562
i love catherine’s playing, and was a student in her class at irish arts week in the catskills a number of years back. she’s very impressive as a player & teacher. and a warm person. but the video shows her in a ‘concert’ setting, a somewhat disembodied environment. i understand how irish trad music has become a ‘respectable’ concert music and has become institutionalized (like jazz other other non-classical musics), that’s not a bad thing, but i wonder about the loss of place and feeling in the music.
" i understand how irish trad music has become a ‘respectable’ concert music and has become institutionalized (like jazz other other non-classical musics), that’s not a bad thing, but i wonder about the loss of place and feeling in the music." scatter-
No danger of any loss or feeling. The music is alive and well, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ietRxTd4rxU
and Catherine can do both “performance” gigs and play in a traditional setting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhWuhYCWCmI
nice videos steam, thanks for sharing. -jeff zajac
Unfortunately for us in North America, we have a very limited number of places scattered across a large geographical area where we can see players (almost typed “performers”) of the caliber of Ms. McEvoy play in a session setting. We have to make due with concerts or video or recordings. Consequently, I’m happy to see even a concertized setting for her playing.
On another note, it seems, in the video, that Ms. McEvoy has turned the foot of the flute around to get those annoying lower keys out of the way. This would mean that she couldn’t vent the E note with the D#/Eb key, correct? Or play D#/Eb at all. I’m guessing that she isn’t doing this just to vex Jem… I don’t know what maker/vintage of flute she plays but presumably it is able to give good intonation and volume without venting. Is this pretty common?
She also seems to use her two lower fingers on her left (lower hand) in tandem rather than resting her lower pinky finger on the instrument. Again, is this a common technique?
Best wishes.
Steve
Non venting is pretty common. The Flute is a non slide Rudall. I’d guess supporting the flute on the shoulder negates the need for anchoring it with the pinkie.
Very nice, thanks for the link!
Sounds better as on her cd’s. Guess the cd’s mixing doesn’t serve her too well.
Moritz
And I thought Miltown was Ireland’s first ‘etown’ 
At least, this was announced with great fanfare a number of years ago.
Mind you, I could never quite reconcile this with the various little Massey Ferguson tractors parked haphazardly on the street.
And I thought Miltown was Ireland’s first ‘etown’ >
Shannon development built a little estate all fibre cabled up and imagined e-businesses would come running. One unit was sold (to a local architect) the rest of them are still empty (and partly unfinished) and up for grabs, our own little ghost estate.
Fast connections were not supplied to the rest of the area. Fast Broadband means 1 MB/s.
Catherine plays left-handed. Her flute is a right-handed Rudall with no tuning slide and she has the keys blu-tacked shut. She couldn’t vent a note if she wanted to. Yet she is never out of tune. It isn’t easy, but it can be done.
The music is alive and well, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ietRxTd4rxU
Mick Hand in that session - a great player!
Aine ni Cheallaigh next to Mick playing the fiddle, I think I see Aine McGrath at the edge of the frame at times on the other side of the guitar player, I see Davoc Runne playing the whistle and the accordeon, although never in the frame, is obviously Jackie Daly, Tim Dennehy and Angela Crehan dancing a few steps.
Anyone know the name of the ‘unnamed slipjig’, the first tune in the second set? I’ve been learning it from this video and would love to know what it’s called so I can find out if anyone else knows it without having to play it for them.