Check this out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEZI7HOlzNs
Yep, he plays a concertina and a harmonica at the same time.
Somthing with an Irish flair!
Nate
I don’t know about Irish flair, Rick is very American. Nice man too.
You may want to look at Mick Kinsella pulling the same stunt. He’s doing so here but gets lost a bit in the fiddle/concertina/pipes of the rest of the ensemble (more clips from same concert linked in the ‘news’ section of website below).
I have uploaded another clip of Mick playing an air and hornpipe on harmonica and concertina (later joined by bouzouki) recorded where Mick was part of an outfit invited to play at ‘the Masters of Tradition’ festival in Bantry House last august. Kitty Hayes Eoin O Neill and myself were also part of the ensemble. We let Mick start on his own 
Clip Here , picture here
Also check out the CD Iron Lung by Kinsella/Epping/Power
plenty of them on youtube for example :
I met Rick Epping several years ago when I was lucky enough to wander into Teach Murray in Gurteen on a Monday night and get invited into the small session there with Peter Horan, Rick and just a few others. (Including a guy sitting off in the distance who would randomly start bashing on a bodhran, which began to annoy me until someone told me he was 90 years old. Fair play to him, I’ll be over the moon if I’m still around to walk into a pub when I’m 90, much less bash a bodhran.) Anyway, I was quite impressed by Rick’s ability to play both harmonica And concertina simultaneously. At first I thought, well okay push-pull on the 'tina and breathe in-breathe out on the harmonica, I suppose you could get yourself in synch if you were playing either a C or G harmonica. Then I found out he plays an English concertina, so there goes that theory. It’s hard enough to get an English 'tina to sound like Irish music on its own, much less if you’re trying to play Irish harmonica too while you’re at it. Very impressive! Although conceptually I suppose it’s not much different than someone singing and playing guitar together, plus there are no words to be forgetting, eh?
I don’t know about Irish flair, Rick is very American.
I don’t know what very American means, Peter. Are you very Dutch?
Does being “very American” mean he can’t have an Irish flair? Don’t tell Liz Carroll, Billy McComisky, Jerry O’Sullivan, Seamus Egan, John Williams, et. al. They’d be disappointed to be told that they don’t have an Irish flair, that they are “very American.”
I for one understood perfectly well what Peter’s well-meaning sentiments were all about. And no, I won’t explain it. There would be little point.
I have talked to David about this in PM. All sorted, no problems.
