Here’s a www to Rick Epping of Hohner Harmonicas playing a slip jig “O’Farrels Welcome to Limerick”. I like the harmonica for Irish music. Rick plays with Brendan Powers some times. He’s pretty good.
He used to be in a band called Pumpkinhead in the 70s. All from the US, they all lived together in a house in Sligo and played music. I have seen an old tv documentary about them some time ago. I have one of their albums somewhere I think, it was produced by Donal Lunny.
If you’re a fan of Irish harmonica, you should check out Don Kavanaugh.
Lovely man (from Dublin) who’s lived in Ottawa for some time now.
He’s got this huge harmonica (which he flips to change keys) nicknamed the “gatling gun.”
I don’t think there’s much interest among ITrad people in the harmonica. I played in a session recently and there was one. Amazing how it could be heard over button box, banjo, fiddle, whistle etc. If it worked at all it worked best when used to simply accompany the music, like a guitar.
However, at those sessions where I turn out to be the only melody player, I’d take a harmonica player with pleasure, or oboe for that matter.
James Conway’s got a great CD out called Mouth Box.
It’s worth checking out if you like harmonica for IrTrad.
Stuart
This is so true.