Hey Fleadh, my great-grandad emigrated from County Cork to North Carolina way back. I'm a 60-year old Yank retired music teacher and experienced in many forms of music/ensembles...except Celtic and folk. Then a week ago to the day I had an epiphany, spurred by a random listening experience to Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention) leading to Sandy Denny, Anne B., Cara D., Caitlin G., Sinead O., Van M., and finally to the Grand Master and my fave new 'Orange-a-tang' Loreena McKennitt. The old traditional Irish (Celtic?) folk tune I can't stop thinking about and sounding in my mind, and one the above artists all have in common, is 'She Moved Through the Fair'! Eerily beautiful with simple but evocative poetry...then set to various arrangements and small ensemble performances that have simulated my Irish DNA! Cara's live version with Solas is SO good, too! Add a little bass and the Tin Whistle and she knocks it outa the park! (I gotta get me one of them whistles...and a bottle of Jameson's to boot! LOL) Is it OK for me to be Irish now...or semi-Irish? I'm light-skinned/hair, freckles, sunburn easy (without tanning - I'm SO lucky!) Point is - that folk tune and the implication that one of the lovers to be wed has already departed this Earth...her feet made no din when she walks...that's good stuff! And what, 2 or 3 centuries or more ago imagined by a creative Irishman!? Just awesome! I'm shelving the Blues, Rock, Jazz, honky-tonk, and my Telecaster for a while so I can focus on more good new acoustic folksy music! (BTW, if you and any readers of this comment have not seen Richard Thompson's '1000 Years of Popular Music' you need to drop what you're doing immediately and check it out! Great variety of music and he's a witty hoot, too!) Cheers!
If anyone is looking for a cheap whistle I would strongly recommend a Clarke Sweetone. I think they cost less than $10 US dollars. For a cheap whistle they are in tune and play pretty well.
2 geniuses for the price of one. Cara the singer and Cara the fine flute player. Love her. Class always wins out.
Hey Fleadh, my great-grandad emigrated from County Cork to North Carolina way back. I'm a 60-year old Yank retired music teacher and experienced in many forms of music/ensembles...except Celtic and folk. Then a week ago to the day I had an epiphany, spurred by a random listening experience to Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention) leading to Sandy Denny, Anne B., Cara D., Caitlin G., Sinead O., Van M., and finally to the Grand Master and my fave new 'Orange-a-tang' Loreena McKennitt. The old traditional Irish (Celtic?) folk tune I can't stop thinking about and sounding in my mind, and one the above artists all have in common, is 'She Moved Through the Fair'! Eerily beautiful with simple but evocative poetry...then set to various arrangements and small ensemble performances that have simulated my Irish DNA!
Cara's live version with Solas is SO good, too! Add a little bass and the Tin Whistle and she knocks it outa the park! (I gotta get me one of them whistles...and a bottle of Jameson's to boot! LOL)
Is it OK for me to be Irish now...or semi-Irish? I'm light-skinned/hair, freckles, sunburn easy (without tanning - I'm SO lucky!) Point is - that folk tune and the implication that one of the lovers to be wed has already departed this Earth...her feet made no din when she walks...that's good stuff! And what, 2 or 3 centuries or more ago imagined by a creative Irishman!? Just awesome! I'm shelving the Blues, Rock, Jazz, honky-tonk, and my Telecaster for a while so I can focus on more good new acoustic folksy music! (BTW, if you and any readers of this comment have not seen Richard Thompson's '1000 Years of Popular Music' you need to drop what you're doing immediately and check it out! Great variety of music and he's a witty hoot, too!) Cheers!
I can't think of a more talented musician than Cara Dillion! and a better team!
What an incredible voice and truly lovely person..Sam is also a true gent.
Fantastic!
wow. Absolutely delicious. No words to define this.
thank you Cara,best and beatiful,a fan from Hungary ,Budapest
The reel at the end is called "the crooked priest" by Luke Daniels (who is the melodeon player in this video).
Colin Goldie. In my opinion the best.
Sorry, but they are not playing penny whistles. Theses are called low whistles and they are not cheap!
Yesss!
Louise Price well even supposed penny whistles are not cheap!
Andrew McMillan You can get really good cheap ones but they are harder to find now
If anyone is looking for a cheap whistle I would strongly recommend a Clarke Sweetone. I think they cost less than $10 US dollars. For a cheap whistle they are in tune and play pretty well.
I second that. I bought a set of seven Chieftain thunderbird whistles for around $700.
What brand are the low whistles? I absolutely love Celtic music!
probably chieftan !
Judging by the tuning slides, they look like those made by Colin Goldie, I have na low F whistle from him and it's beautiful.
Finnegan plays Colin Golgie whistles.
WE call it traditional Irish music
copeland
Hi guys, are these Low F whistles.
If this was today the audience would be clapping along to the singing....
and-and Mike oldfield,do you mean what i mean!!
What's the instrument after the song?
It's called a pennywhistle/tin whistle, really cheap and easy to learn! : )
halfacat1 Thanks, what about the name of the music?
yeah right! those are low whistles, up to 1000 quid on ebay any day!
What's the reel they end with?
The reel at the end is called "the crooked priest" by Luke Daniels (who is the melodeon player in this video).