I went to a concert in Guelph, Ont last night. The band was Pipeline. They are two guys → Dermot Hyde on pipes (uillean and scottish small) and whistles, and Tom Hake on Bouzouki, Guitar, Harp and a guitar shaped Bouzouki. (The whistles were Overton for the lows and susatos for the highs, but some two of his high whistles were susato heads on generation bodies. I asked. He played a low G–I think, a low Eb and a low D as well as a high D and I think a high Eb. and a Bb Generation, untouched. forgot about that one)
The two are from Munich Germany and were apparently also at the Goderich Celtic Music festival in August. They also played in Cape Breton earlier this week or last…
The music was amazing.
I bought their CD and am listening to it right now. They play celtic music from all over. A fair bit is from the islands (Ireland and Scotland) but one of their favorites (and mine now) is from Galicia in Spain. It was great because they were joking away during the concert, talking to the audience, telling about the music, and scheduling workshops for after the concert for everything from how to be a cowardly man to how to tell whether or not you have been to Dublin (or scotland or cape breton… Like I said, they cracked a lot of jokes)
But the music was amazing.
I was sitting in the second row, but that was only about 10 feet away. They were saying that Friday they played at a house concert furthur up north and their were 40 or so people stuffed into someone’s living room and so were only about 1/2 a foot away. Oh to have been there.
Very animated and so much fun to watch both of their sets of fingers flying. (one over holes and one on strings) Dermot was an amazing whistler. The best (to me) part was that right at the beginning, the worst thing that could happen to a string player did–> Tom broke a string oon his bouzouki. He carried right on, with barely any perceptible loss in tuning, but then he switched to a guitar for the next song, and then had to go back to the bouzouki for one more part. He tuned it up quick (while Dermot was talking and as he started playing the next song) and carried on. Then he ducked off stage for about a min while Dermot played a lament (original concert plan I think) restrung it, tuned it, walked out and started playing right as Dermot went to the next tune in the set.
To my mind, what makes a good performer isn’t what happens when everything goes great, it’s what happens when something goes wrong. Tom was great.
All in all a very good concert.
Their website (according to the Cd) is…
one moment…
let me find it…
ahh here we go:
I just checked it. There isn’t anything there. (it’s a “future website”)
NEVER MIND! The correct address is www.pipeline-music.com
NicoMoreno