Flute Player Peter Horan from Co. Sligo, Ireland 1986
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- Musician Peter Horan on his unique flute playing style and the musical tradition of Gurteen and Killavil in County Sligo.
Peter Horan is a traditional flute and fiddle player from Killavil in County Sligo. Killavil is three miles from Gurteen. This part of south Sligo has a long standing musical tradition.
All the top fiddlers were from Killavil, including Michael Coleman.
Peter Horan comes from a family of fiddlers and plays the fiddle himself. He started learning the tin whistle at an early age and began playing the concert flute when he was nine years old.
Peter Horan never learned how to read music and cannot identify what key he is playing in. He does not teach formal music lessons, but he has given instruction to classes of children using his own system.
Peter Horan admires classical flute player James Galway and considers him a genius. When it is suggested he is as good as James Galway, Peter Horan disagrees as the traditional and classical fields cannot be compared. However he concedes,
I suppose, in traditional music I might be alright like, I’m not saying I’d be in any top field or anything.
For years Peter Horan performed as a duet with fiddler Fred Finn, his best friend of 40 years. They duo played with the Glen Céilí Band and the Coleman Country Céilí Band.
To Peter Horan’s amusement, Frank Hall attempts and fails to produce a note from the flute. He demonstrates how it should be done by playing a reel in his own inimitable style.
‘Hall and Company’ is a magazine type programme which sees presenter Frank Hall travelling round the less well known towns and villages of Ireland, talking to the inhabitants. The first episode was broadcast on 15 April 1985.
This episode of ‘Hall and Company’ visits counties Sligo and Waterford. It was first broadcast on 9 November 1986. The producer is Gerry Murphy.
Had the pleasure of sitting beside Fred & Peter at a pub in Boyle way back..What a night.. Lovely clip .
I played along with Peter a couple of times, at Charlestown and Feakle. He loved the bodhran, such a lovely man!
@@RockyRoader What I liked about these great old musicians..They had no airs and graces..His humility shines through in this clip for all the world to see..
You lucky duck.
How wonderful!
What a gentleman.His playing is a direct link to the soul of Irish traditional music.God bless him.
Frank hall made some great programmes..such a pleasant man..people spoke slowly and with feeling..
Frank Hall was a great presenter with a lovely personality..The less said about the present bunch the better..I just switch them off..Much better entertainment on YT even if it's 30 or 40 years ago.
@@sentimentaloldme yes Michael and cutting across each other all the time..
Brilliant and modest. A rare combination. Great video. Thank you.
A humble man, just wonderful playing. A window into another place and time.
Brillant stuff. He was a great player and a nice man.
Peter is dearly missed but his music lives on, one of the greats.
An incredible performance ! A very gifted man. beautiful music.
What a lovely man ,makes me proud to be Irish ☘️
This is such a beautiful video
Peter was right up there with the best of them. RIP.
What a modest man, sorry that should be 2 modest men. Beautiful stuff.
Just great to see this traditional musician and his expertise. Brilliant video.
Fun interview.
That was sooooo awesome! Thanks CR!
I got to meet Peter a couple of times as a young teen fiddler, he was so kind and such a lover of music. Not a drop of pretention on him.
Lovely fella peter 👏🏼👏🏼 genuine man
How wonderful to have achieved his status in itm and still be so humble.
Gentle vid from two gentlemen.
Thank goodness, we have some recordings. Lately, I've been enjoying his lovely playing in Music at Matt Malloy's.
It is always great to listen to the legends :)
Great interview, magical playing
Beautiful xx
Knew Peter well from work couldn't meet a nicer man
L0Ve
Aye... A bright player..
Very honest on James Galway.
Oh they traded cooties.... Best of luck. Hope they are both with us.
That’s funny
“D,G,F, you know? and all this crack.”
The nicotine stains give away the smoker.,
Everyone smoked in those days...If you were in a pub at a session and you were a non smoker it was very uncomfortable. I remember the other great blind flute player Josie McDermott his right hand was almost completely brown from smoking..
So be it. So what if he was a smoker ? He was certainly a very kind and intelligent man. An incredibly gifted musician.
@@marieboutin9054 Just observing as it's not a common sight these days. Also remarkable for a flute player.
And no argument, he was a lovely kind man, and a fabulous musician.
Sterile mouth.
@@RockyRoader he smoked Sweet Afton untipped all his life and died at 84.
Some may think, he just passed the Flute and never wiped it, us, we played with muck and rode Cows bareback as kids...
Well it's fascinating to see this artist and his tradition and all but man, they give and take that flute among them like 8 times, not even wiping it down... I mean I wouldn't do it, not only because of hygiene but merely the thought of it... Ugh
Well, with the way one's lips sit on the flute and the way you blow, you don't come into contact with saliva even when exchanging a flute rapidly like that.
Not to mention, with the silver insert in the headjoint, it'd most likely be less germ-friendly than an actual wooden flute.
Maybe you have some points.