LOL!
Good to be able to put a face to ya… even if you claim is gone all grizzly in 6 years.
I attribute my youthful complexion to plenty of meat and red wine. 
Yeah, you’re well on your way to geezer status 
Well, Dow’s little worship icon summed it up, but man, what a great program. Totally inspiring! Does anyone else want one of Sam’s flutes (even more)?
Tee Hee, Rock Stars get to be legends, becoming a Geezer is far superior… do lady flooters become Floot Biddies?
Many thanks David for making this known and thanks to Sanyallana for putting up the videos. I’m one of many who have been waiting to see Meadh’s documentary about Sam. Very interesting and worth the wait. Sam Murray is a very interesting and intelligent man that I’d like to meet sometime. Thanks also to Murrough O’Kane for the BBC reference.
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Thanks, been trying to see that program for a year or so!
Now I can see how to make flutes…
so you’re thinking of making flutes, eh? i hope you don’t feel threatened–but there’s a monk in your area that i hear makes a pretty mean flute!
Just finished watching the whole series. What a treat! The music (including Maiti Jo Sheamuis’s singing), the interviews, the flutes the flutes the flutes – happy sigh. I especially liked the part where he called boxwood an “SOB” (not exactly in those terms) 
; I have a feeling he’d have a word or two for The Banana if he saw it today. It was indeed cool to see a video populated by so many boxwood flutes – I’m so used to being the lone person with the weird amber flute it felt like I was discovering the Banana’s lost tribe. And it’s REALLY inspiring to hear the sound some of those players were getting out of theirs.
Thanks again to Asturian angel Sanyallana and Davy and Othannen and everyone. 
XO,
cat and “Hesperus” (aka The Mighty Banana)
I heard it was a mean monk making flutes pretty.
I’d worry.
oh, i was mistaken–it was a pretty monk making mean flutes.
Thanks for the link Murrough. Has anyone figured out how to save these BBC iplayer and the Full set videos to hard disc to view later?
Hi all,
just downloaded the lot.
does anyone know what the tune is that Gary Hastings is playing at four minutes 23 seconds on the first part link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuVWT_r-Dew
cheers sponge
does anyone know what the tune is that Gary Hastings is playing at four minutes 23 seconds on the first part link below.
bugle hornpipe.you could find it recorded on gary hastings and seamus quinn cd,‘stories to tell’ together with number five.
marin
Tonight they have Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh’s concertina episode on BBC 2 for anyone that’s interested - details below:
Ceird An Cheoil
BBC 2 Northern Ireland
Today on BBC 2 Northern Ireland from 7:30pm to 8:00pm
The Concertina
Following musician Micheal O Raghallaigh as he restores an old concertina to its former glory and discusses the merits of the instrument. Plus, performances by Antoin MacGabhann and Brid Meany, Michael Rooney, Providence, Catherine MacEvoy and the O Raghallaigh family.
(I’d say it’ll probably be shown at the same URL as the one posted for Sam’s episode [replacing it]:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00c0fvz.shtml?filter=azgroup%3Acd&scope=iplayeratoz&start=1&version_pid=b005sk7n )
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Aaaaaagh! I LOVE HIM! I saw him in St. Louis and he’s just perfect. Murrough, I think you’re taunting us!
Oh well, maybe in another couple of years The Great Sanalyanna will once again deliver us unwashed and I can marvel from afar … sniff, sniff
Hi Cathy,
This is BBC 2 (here in the north) airing the series for the first time, and they seem to be very good for putting their stuff on-line. I think it’s a bit crappy of the BBC however IMO, how they are not allowing the footage to be broadcast worldwide.
Now, to my knowledge, TG4 were very good for broadcasting the episodes of the whole Ceird an Cheoil series on the web (from their own website), as they were great for repeating the episodes on the actual television channel itself, so I would rather have watched the episodes on the television, back when they were airing first time around, and always enjoyed watching the repeats. It might be worth having a wee browse around the TG4 website to see if they still have some of the episodes online. I truly feel bad for people who can’t view this, that the BBC aren’t showing this across the world.
Just maybe keep checking back on the TG4 website to see if they have the episodes online from there, and if so, it might be nice to post them here I suppose, for the ones who unfortunately haven’t seen the episodes yet.
Just an after-thought here, I hope I’m not speaking out of turn by posting these links incase TG4 are trying to sell them or something like that, as I honestly don’t know if they are.
I don’t know about BBC stuff online in general in terms of area distribution rights, but as the Beeb obviously bought this series in, they may well not have the rights to distribute them beyond what they are doing - in fact, I’d lay odds that is the case. I doubt they’re simply being mean or lazy - there are bound to be sound, if “bad”, legal reasons!
Just had a wee check there on:
Click on:
> Ceol - Cartlann (3rd link down on the left side)
and you can usually find a wealth of stuff there, e.g.:
Canúintí Ceoil - 6/6/08 presented by Joe Byrne
(There are a good few episodes on the Canúintí Ceoil series)
There’s a nice documentarey of Frankie Kennedy there for example, at present simply called:
“Frankie” - 12/4/08
As I said, there’s an absolute wealth of stuff there usually, so just keep checking in is my best advice.
Hi murrough
The concertina episode is not available as far as I can find.
Low Whistle
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=1792465902768362466&q=ceird+an+cheoil&ei=2c5OSI-WM4GEjQKx5LS6DA
Accordian (courtesy of Sanyallana)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTGwCDKOue4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrCNIsVXl28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxRaRVv9W6w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqtqHhJIo1E
Piano (again courtesy of Sanyallana)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Ydbddp7_Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8396PBRfg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2pFLdBpVTk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6uvj2NdRYo
David