The Isle of Innisfree - Dan The Street Singer, Ireland 1983
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- A one man travelling band from Lousiburgh in County Mayo entertains on the streets of Sligo.
Dan The Street Singer, whose real name is Basil Morahan, attracts an audience on O’Connell Street in Sligo. As Dan slowly moves through the town pulling his custom made cart, people stop to listen to a rendition of the ‘Lake Isle of Innisfree’ and throw a few bob into his basket.
Dan explains that he hopes to bring back an old style of performance that he knew as a child when singers went through the streets as they sang.
I’m doing nothing different to ordinary buskers except that I’m mobile and amplified.
This episode of ‘Ireland’s Eye’ was broadcast on 5 April 1983. The reporter is Tommie Gorman.
Thats the Ireland i miss❤
Magnificent. surreal. Nice guitar tone
What a beautiful voice !!!
The very best equipment street singer that I have ever come across. What a most brilliant singer he is, his playing in tune, I would have loved to see this man in action, he must have made a mint. I bet that he is still singing and playing his songs all around heaven's streets and town and entertaining all the angles and saints
I think it was PJ Halloran in Westport who built the sound system for him.
Aaww, this is sweet. All the lovely smiles 😊
Brilliant footage to have.wonderful stuff. A lot of the onlookers are gone now.Think I saw a young Bertie putting his empty hand in the sack and returned with a hefty fist😂😂😂
My brother Noel met this man and made a tape of his song's. LIZZIE SHORTHALL USED TO SING HIS SONG'S
One of the things I love about the Irish is how much they love music and love listening to it together
He knows all the chords,👍
what a sweet voice. didnt expect that at all. expected a rough and loud guy. lovely.
I can't stop watching this video! It really relaxes me and uplifts my spirit. I miss old Ireland.
Good man Dan
Lovely
What a lovely voice! A mobile busker singing the old songs. I love this video. What ever happened to him I wonder?
His voice is gorgeous
I remember back in the days there were more musicians in the streets, seems like these days it's just beggars who do nothing in return for the money they are requesting.
I wonder if Dan is still around ?
Jaysus, that's brutal.
Blacking up is illegal nowadays in the EU territory..
Lovely vocals,from a true old time bard.
He wasn't trying to pretend he was black, his shtick was being a rambling street singer/hobo. He was a school teacher by day, he done this for fun believe it or not. Fondly remembered by many here in Mayo.
is he wearing blackface?
i think he just was dirty maybe to resemble a working man, coal miner.. a pure irish singer singing irish songs. stop seeing racism everywhere.
@@dirtyunclehubert lol. nothing wrong with blackface. it's art. who's seeing racism?
@@______638 sorry mistook you for one of these hysterically political correctness nutjobs.
Les clochards étaient comme ça avant. En sachant, comment ils ont été traité les Irlandais les Anglais à l'époque. Arrêter de déformé les choses.