From IRTRAD is this link:
http://www.rnag.ie/english/listen.html
scroll down and you can hear awesome concerts. There are portions of the Tommy McCarthy concert Peter has been talking about . Scroll down to ‘Lán a’ Mhála’ from 28 May. It sounds great and it starts with a reel familiar to many!!!
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The link won’t readily open for me but Mattai Joe Sheamus did record the concert for RnaG and the concert was on the 24 th. Maybe it’s the broadcast date
That’s really worth listening to. A bit too much talking though, especially when I can’t understand a word of it. The version of Poll Ha’penny is really lovely. Does anyone know the tune that immediately follows. I would also be interested in the name of the jig which precedes Tatter Jack Walsh played by the whistle player. Does anyone know who the flute and whistle player are?
Steve
I left the concert just after the second half started, judging by the repertoire my guess is it is Brid O Donoghue. I’ll ask her tonight when she drops in. Michael Hynes played flute with the group including Tommy Keane and Henry Benagh, Noel O Grady. Michael Tubridy played flute with Tony Linnane and a bunch of other people [sorry was talking to people when that was goign on] Eamonn Cotter played with Geraldine on piano and Peadar O Louhglin and Maeve Donnelly on fiddle. PJ Crotty played flute for the set dancers with Conor Keane on accordeon and Ita Crehan playing the whistle [she played the Harvest Home among other things]
Some changes were made during the concert in regards to whom was playing with whom. Brid was originally to play with Padraig MacMathuna, Tony Linnane and John Kelly but possibly she did her bit on her own. The tunes you mention would point in that direction. But I expect her to call in tonight so I’ll ask.
Hope that helps.
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From among the other download choices at that sight, I hit the one that said Ceili figuring I’d hear a jam session, which turned out to be true. In this case, fidelity was poor but it was more of the point of this thread, the real thing, an Irish session. Reels at meaningful speeds rather than horse races, etc…
I wish they had descriptions in English but they have their prerogative and I don’t question it. I have been slowly filling in the English names of vol 1 +2 of Breathnach and am starting to get a handle on the common words in Irish. I like muc for pig!! But it never ceases to amaze me how different the English versions of surnames are to spelled-out Irish originals. let me guess, Laban is Leibahahghanein right? 
Just kidding, I’m sure it has about three less letters than that!
On 2002-05-31 10:28, The Weekenders wrote:
I wish they had descriptions in English but they have their prerogative and I don’t question it.
Well they are Radio na Gaeltachta, doing things in English would defeat the whole point of their existence.
On 2002-05-31 10:28, The Weekenders wrote:
From among the other download choices at that sight, I hit the one that said Ceili figuring I’d hear a jam session,
I clicked on one that said Rithim agus Racht figuring the “rithim” indicated some sort of music. It did. It was a jazz show. I actuall recognized a few words. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, etc.
Steve
Peter said:
Well they are Radio na Gaeltachta, doing things in English would defeat the whole point of their existence.
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(In John Cleese voice): “Look, I told you once.”
That’s why I said prerogative. They are trying to further and disseminate the language and its our responsibility to come to them.
I am enjoying my exposure to it, which I lovingly call “the other white language”
(an American ad reference). Its always a little mind-bending for people to come in the office and hear voices on my computer (from live Gaeltachta feed) speaking or singing this unrecognizable tongue.
To others, I highly recommend the Eist compilations. There are two that I have seen, Eist aris and Eist a stor. Great songs by the very best singers. Brian Kennedy is a god in my opinion. I know he has kind of a “funny” persona (he sings in an extremely high voice and has the stubble sensitive guy thing down cold) but his singing is ethereal. His website is a scream, requires flash player and rarely works for me.
On 2002-05-31 11:54, The Weekenders wrote:
Its always a little mind-bending for people to come in the office and hear voices on my computer (from live Gaeltachta feed) speaking or singing this unrecognizable tongue.
Well, I have my son goign to school and speaking it, two years ago during the Willie week a woman from the Aran islands went up to him and started talking to him in Irish, just to see if he could. And he could, basically. Then it really get’s weird, I can tell you that.
Slan abhaile [that’s about as far as I get with it]
Yet another pleasure of parenthood, when they do something you can’t or didn’t. And to have him really speak it will forever change him cause language affects the inner wiring, I hear.
My younger boy is a gymnast, apparently a gifted one based on his performances at the meets. He wants to be in the Olympics. He’s only 9. I often joke that he is accomplished, popular and muscular, things I wasn’t even in high school!