Don’t know how I missed these, but while looking for Máire Ní Ghráda’s Cobblestone concert (it’s disappeared!) I found this lovely music: http://source.pipers.ie/Media.aspx?mediaId=4803&categoryId=282
THANK YOU!!! ![]()
Jayzuz Cathy, you’re most welcome.
Maire is certainly an equal-opportunity object of obsession.
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Yes, she’s all that and a bag of spuds.
Total. Class. Act.
[sighs] I have been completely in her thrall since The Pipers’ Rock. Thanks soooo (wait, one more ‘o’: o. There) for the link to these clips, Bensdad. Can’t get enough of MnG!
Good on yer, Maire.
If you are a member of NPU, they are now sending out reminders, prompts, to inform folk of updates to sections such as the Tuition and Cobblestone areas of the website.
Personally, I have checked from time to time anyway!
Whatever. Well done NPU, as well as Maire. Forgive the absent fodera. Sign up!
Pwrt
Found it again: http://source.pipers.ie/Gallery.aspx?id=759
The appreciation is no doubt mutual, bensdad, as this http://source.pipers.ie/Media.aspx?mediaId=21146&categoryId=759 isn’t the only video of her I’ve seen where she’s playing the lovely (and funny) hop jig “Shaving Baby with a Spoon”.
(It even has hilarious words!)
Nico, you’re a sweetheart. Are you married?
Soon! ![]()
(Maybe even before I see you next…)
And then there’s this mysterious portrait: http://tinyurl.com/6mlprc5
Sooo many nice nippety-tickety bits in her playing. I especially love the g-f#g triplet (2nd octave) in that second hornpipe.
[turns, looks directly into camera] For the love of god, Máire: please make a commercial recording. Greater exposure to your piping could right a world of piping wrongs.
You have to be really, really special to get a blowpipe named after you.
CUT TO WS OF CASTLE GATES AS THEY BURST OPEN AND A ROARING CROWD POURS IN, BRANDISHING THEIR PATENTED MAIRE NI GHRADA BLOWPIPES AND SHOUTING “YES! YES! YES!” IN UNISON.
TOMMYKLEEN IS ENGULFED.
Fine musical piping, very inspiring, one of the best uilleann pipers ever I think. Even back in the day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0-g3vFvcy8
I’ve started working on her “Lark in the Morning” and it’s just brilliant. I love that little thing she does that’s not exactly a short roll, more like two legato notes with kind of a soft cut in between. So lyrical, and almost elastic. As I listened to one of the clips I was thinking that she sounded like she spends a lot of time playing a flat set … and then, lo and behold, in the next clip I watched, she said played a flat set for years!