Last one of these threads from me, I swear.
At about 3:45 in this clip, Seamus Egan (Seumas) delivers a butt-blistering performance that will leave you searching high and low for your aloe vera cream.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofKcN1a8ObM
Discuss.
All I can say is that if you folks don’t stop posting this stuff I’m never gonna get anything done… 
I enjoyed the fiddlin’ as much as the flutin’. Thanks.
Part Irish Trad., part American Trad., and part New and Different, I liked it, all the way around, and thank you for sharing!
i heard him 15 years ago (?) informal concert, when he was playing that infamous ‘air/reel’ thingy on his lost/stolen boosey. i liked that more than anything he’s done. sorry for the lukewarmness. maybe i can learn some insight from fellow chiffers…
is there’s something missing there? what tune was that in the beginning? was it a tune? i feel bad because there is so much talent there and yet i can’t quite become captivated by it. my apologies i wish i could do better
now video of jim donoghue’s pre celtic tiger playing is in da zone
where are episodes quattre and sept?
Seamus’ technique is hard to rival. He’s in the top ten as far as technical ability. The dynamics he uses with his tone is very impressive. Unortunately, probably because of sound quality of the clip or because of the the sound at the concert, it meant a lot of the melody was obscured by rise and fall of his tone. The speed and technical fluttery obscured the melody even more. It wasn;t until Eileen kicked back in that I was able to identify a melody.
But I think this is maybe not the best example of Seamus’ playing because of the sound issues.
Try this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu26Y0DXyT8
The tempo is much more laid back but you get to hear his technique and his dynamics better and the lift comes through better.
I’ve never been moved to listen to Seamus’ projects because the examples I hear most are like the concert clip where, for various reasons including his performance, the melody is obscured. The clip I posted and the incidental playing he did on the Brothers McMullen soundtrack are a little more inviting to me.
You’re right. It is hard to put a finger on how they sound, but I’d chalk that up to being something of a different sound.
This one is a shining example of why I don’t like his playing. There’s WAY too much ornamentation obscuring the melody, too many burbles and blips that take away from it, and to boot, what’s left of the tune does nothing for me.
I’d take his banjo playing over this any day.
Dude, quattre, sept, huit, cinq, and all those guys are SO 2007. Get with the times.
[quote=“rama”]i heard him 15 years ago (?) informal concert, when he was playing that infamous ‘air/reel’ thingy on his lost/stolen boosey. i liked that more than anything he’s done.
What was the infamous air/reel thing? I also didn’t know Seamus lost a Boosey.
Well worth listening to, IMO, so I’d like to hear more of whatever you might discover, that is, no need for this to be the last!
And, thanks!
air: dark slender boy (?) / reel: fermoy lasses
i taped it. awesome.
Things I like about Seamus Egan’s playing:
His Tone: He is one of the few wooden flute players who has an immediately identifiable sound - hear a few bars and you know it’s Seamus.
He plays slow tunes beautifully (even if we don’t hear it that often) - listen to Mick O’Connor’s on “When Juniper Sleeps”.
He can actually write and play something new that isn’t complete crap. Yeah, it may not be everone’s cup of tea, and often live performances are way too fast for my liking, but the music is well written, and it gives a break from the same tunes that have been flogged to near death in recent years.
And yeah, he can play better than all of us combined. I’d love to be a fly on the wall when he’s at home just playing for his own enjoyment, no need to keep up with some band of blazing lunatics. I bet you’d hear some really lovely stuff.
Loren
He probably doesn’t practice at home because he’s too busy playing out.
When he’s at home he secretly plays the ukulele to relax!
I think he likes to play the electric guitar when he is relaxing… 
The one clip is from his flute tutorial.