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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpbvBwOeCEU
I stumbled onto this while searching for tenor guitar… seems like great stuff to me.
Thank you, Annie! I really enjoyed the clips and forwarded the links on to a banjo-playing pal who thought it was terrific too. He said the same thing someone else said in the YouTube comments – that they’d heard of Mick O’Connor but had never actually heard him play. Pity he hasn’t recorded anything more – lovely stuff.
What do you think is up with that series? There are singers and things in the same format, too.
I’m guessing it is sort of regular coffee-house set up that records some of the performers. The guy playing with him seems to feature in a lot of them. I miss coffee houses!
Mick O’Connor made a brilliant and classic album in 1971, when he was 23, with Galway flute player Paddy Carty, available nowadays as Shanachie SHA-CD-34017.
Mick is a grand player and a really friendly guy, he’s been running sessions and involved in irish music in and around London for quite a few years. Here’s a nice pic of him playing in Milltown
http://www.tonykearns.net/pages/set1-6.htm
Hey, thanks, guys! I actually found it and ordered it for my friend (and me – I’m after the Paddy Carty part!). He’s since said he’s watched those Mick O’Connor videos on YouTube probably 20 times, and is learning more from them than just about anything. He thinks the guy is amazing … 
So again, thanks so mauch!
Those Tony Kearns photos are neat, too. I’d never seen them before, either.
Ah, life in the provinces, I guess.