The legendary Barney McKenna. Saw him many times with The Dubliners in the South of England. Just noticed John Sheahan with a Guitar, never seen that! All of of them brilliant and only John left now.
Ah Stuttgart I love the city and the German people I spent 6yrs.of my young life there learning my profession great place great people God bless you all slainte
A pure Genius with the Banjo, so glad I heard him live a several times. Never forgotten, for his playing and his Humour (Barneyism). The world has lost a real treasure a few years ago. RIP
Wow! There are some many bluegrass players i know that will shun you if you play the banjo with a pick. I'm a guitar player but like to play Banjo and get very self-conscious about my technique. Watching this gave me a lot of inspiration and motivation to continue making music that I enjoy.
Every year on then I come back here to listen to this beautiful song. It's amazing how it makes your day, jumping all around like nothing else matters.
What an absolute hero. The world's a lot emptier a place without you Barney. I'd the lads in the great beyond didn't know what hit them when you Luke and Ciaran rocked up the bar, and started belting out the tunes like the old days. Rest in Peace Mr. McKenna.
The Best Banjo Player fore Every Times.I saw him 3 Times in Duisburg,this was Amazing and Unforgettabel Evenings.He is the best for ever and ever and ever!I Love this man,and i'm so so sad that he died and i had not the chanc to see him One more Time!Forever in my Heart!
Oh no! I can't believe all of the original performers of that marvelous band have now gone. I had so hoped to see this man live one day. Now that chance is gone forever. May he rest in peace and let's hope the band can now reunite in Heaven for that's where he has surely gone!
I don’t think I’ve read through a comment section before where every comment is basically in agreement with each other (that this man is legend and loved by all and will be missed) Even the trolls wouldn’t dare disrespect this man God bless your eternal soul Barney)
Barney was a true legend and his great wing man Eamon beside him. It was a great privilege to see them live in there prime . What a great video of them together.Sad they are both no longer with us. R.I.P. lads
Nothing beats a Barney performance. Listened to this performance, loads and loads time . The late Great Barney always made it look easy. The Master at work, always in charge of his instrument. Haven’t said that , he was a great inspiration. You will see lot’s that aspire to the Great Barney’s pace and stile .None come close.
Had the honor to meet the Dubs in person backstage in 2010, they were very nice. Sang with Sean Cannon and his son in a small German Pub the year before. That was nice to. Barney was such a fantastic Banjo Player. RIP, the world lost a pure genius of Music back than when he died
i met them a couple of years ago in Hamburg, lucky to stay in the same hotel as them, the Raddison, and loved the chat we had with them all,and we were back stage to meet them . made my stay worthwhile. Ray
i met them in Hamburg and i can say they were all great to talk to , Barney had us in stitches with his stories as did Patsy. met Lukes brother, lovely guy as well. the rest were as well. Ray
It was his version of the Mason's Apron, as recorded in the 60s, that influenced me to start playing banjo. There was a particular 'energy' in his playing that no one else managed to transmit. One could argue that Kieran Hanrahan, Gerry O'Connor and Cathal Hayden are better banjo-players (kindly understand that I have great respect for those men too). There was an urgency about Barney's playing that the others just couldn't match. I can't explain it very well, maybe, but it was like he was trying to communicate a message. Perhaps THAT's how he influenced more banjoists in his time than any other Irish banjo player. The people he reached got that 'message'.
Very interesting insight. In some ways, American bluegrass banjo icon Earl Scruggs could be said to have had a similar sort of urgency. In bluegrass, it's sometimes called 'drive'.
captacoustic "Drive" is an often used term in bluegrass and is a necessary ingredient to that genre. It is quite fitting to describe Barney's playing. One can play with a drive... but that 'urgency' describes a real conviction by the way the notes are played. To give another example, Maria Callas wasn't technically the greatest of sopranos, but she sang each song as if it had been written especially for her, as if SHE were the one IN the song as opposed to she singing ABOUT the person. THAT's conviction :-) But, back to banjo-players... It is also interesting to note that Barney & Early died within about a week of each other.
A lot of people write Barney off as not " technically good " but what He could do more than any modern banjo player I've heard, is pump LIFE into tune and make that tune grab you by the ... you know what I mean : )
These are the sounds that inspired me to pick up my sister's old guitar and start playin' some songs. I am also just learnin' how to pick my very first banjo!!! I sure don't think i will ever sound as good as these guys, but i'm havin' a good time :)
THIS is music... It's real, and it's not overly digitized and it's not just a bunch of guys showing off how fast they can pick. It's just music, pure, simple, and great.
Barney, don't worry, you are in Heaven. It's just youtube playing here. Carry on Barney, make sure the lads are alight, and aright! And no messing up there!!
Its gas on this DVD eveytime Barney picks up the accordion he plays the job of journeywork... Even when he's waiting in the airport as far as I remember..!!! :-D Legend
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Best tenor banjo player I've ever heared and great human being also
Only just found this, just amazing!!
Beautiful the 3 of them. Definetly not forgotten.
Pure genius. None better. Never will be. RIP Barney, you are a legend. Brilliant
What a legend. He didn't play the banjo. He owned it.
This is one serious banjo solo. Respect.
"trio"
The legendary Barney McKenna. Saw him many times with The Dubliners in the South of England. Just noticed John Sheahan with a Guitar, never seen that! All of of them brilliant and only John left now.
Bestest banjo solo I've ever heard, I am actually learning the tenor banjo and it is very fun to learn R.I.P Barney McKenna
RIP Barney - The worlds best Tenor Banjo Player ever...
It's very nice watch the our Great Barney plays with his banjo.😍🎼🎼🎼🎼👍🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Now that's music.what a bloody fabulous banjo player.sadly gone now and Eamonn gone too on guitar.Thanks for the music lads.
Rest in perfect peace dizzyfingers. You never EVER fail to make me smile. Beautiful man very sadly missed.
Ah Stuttgart I love the city and the German people I spent 6yrs.of my young life there learning my profession great place great people God bless you all slainte
A pure Genius with the Banjo, so glad I heard him live a several times. Never forgotten, for his playing and his Humour (Barneyism). The world has lost a real treasure a few years ago. RIP
Hats off to Messrs Sheahan and Campbell for keeping up with Barney...!
He plays: Maid behind the bar / Boyne Hunt / The Shaskeen Reel / The Mason's Apron
:)
Only just fabulous
One of my favourite "Dubliners" a very talented man who is very much missed.
Barney McKena absolutely an irish legend.
Wow! There are some many bluegrass players i know that will shun you if you play the banjo with a pick. I'm a guitar player but like to play Banjo and get very self-conscious about my technique. Watching this gave me a lot of inspiration and motivation to continue making music that I enjoy.
Every year on then I come back here to listen to this beautiful song. It's amazing how it makes your day, jumping all around like nothing else matters.
What an absolute hero. The world's a lot emptier a place without you Barney. I'd the lads in the great beyond didn't know what hit them when you Luke and Ciaran rocked up the bar, and started belting out the tunes like the old days. Rest in Peace Mr. McKenna.
His music never forgotten listening to this regular all the way in the far north in Finland
Barney sure could play the bejaysus out if that banjo, he's sorely missed. RIP Barney, you'll certainly never be forgotten
Barney is a legend and always will be R.I.P barney there's only one person that can play a banjo that's barney
Best banjo solo ever. I can listen to it again and again and again. r.i.p. Barney.
Kind thanks.Enjoyed the unforgettable Dubliners through decades in concert!
The Best Banjo Player fore Every Times.I saw him 3 Times in Duisburg,this was Amazing and Unforgettabel Evenings.He is the best for ever and ever and ever!I Love this man,and i'm so so sad that he died and i had not the chanc to see him One more Time!Forever in my Heart!
oh ,somebody else :D Mercartorhalle or in the new temple?
My Dad saw him in the Mercartorhalle many times, a few times, I accompanied him.
Oh no! I can't believe all of the original performers of that marvelous band have now gone. I had so hoped to see this man live one day. Now that chance is gone forever. May he rest in peace and let's hope the band can now reunite in Heaven for that's where he has surely gone!
Mind = Blown. This is amazing, and thats an understatement
I don’t think I’ve read through a comment section before where every comment is basically in agreement with each other (that this man is legend and loved by all and will be missed)
Even the trolls wouldn’t dare disrespect this man
God bless your eternal soul Barney)
Best banjo player of all time.. RIP Barney
Thanks Barney for bringing out and popularizing the Irish Tenor Banjo style to the wider public (like me😀)
Sadly missed by all a great character. Great musician R.I.P. The Dubliners a great group
This man inspired me to start learning the tenor banjo. I am determined to do him justice as I attempt to master this instrument
How are you getting on?
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@@theliamofella Going well I’m nowhere near barneys level of course but steadily learning new tunes and starting to perfect them.
This is one serious banjo PLAYER
Ahh Barney, you’re missed a lot, all of you are missed,
True legend who's instrument should always be associated to him and not the other way around!
Rest in Peace Barney!
May you rest in peace, Barney.
You were an inspiration and a banjo legend, and you will be missed.
UNFORGETTABLE FOR EVER!
Barney was a true legend and his great wing man Eamon beside him. It was a great privilege to see them live in there prime . What a great video of them together.Sad they are both no longer with us. R.I.P. lads
Rest in peace Barney...i think you are in the fiddlers green now. You remain a magician for us.
Respect for these guys
Nothing beats a Barney performance. Listened to this performance, loads and loads time . The late Great Barney always made it look easy. The Master at work, always in charge of his instrument.
Haven’t said that , he was a great inspiration. You will see lot’s that aspire to the Great Barney’s pace and stile .None come close.
I Love Barney R.I.P. see you in the next Life!!!!I am sad!
So grateful I got to see him live! THANK YOU FOR THE PERFORMANCE BARNEY! I hope you're jamming on that banjo somewhere in the clouds!
Had the honor to meet the Dubs in person backstage in 2010, they were very nice. Sang with Sean Cannon and his son in a small German Pub the year before. That was nice to. Barney was such a fantastic Banjo Player. RIP, the world lost a pure genius of Music back than when he died
absolutely brilliant! Lord, YT's given me some great music tonight!
I didn't even know he had died until today... RIP. He and Ronnie are performing at the great bar in the sky, and everyone's loving it!
Barney and Eamonn are absolutely legends.
@@plasticbucketwhy you feel the need to say that?
never forgotten, easily missed, is that you? Barney we love you, McCabes.
Very good solo.I think that banjo is very difficult to play because often it is necessary to play very quickly
in america we call it a feature
or trio
@@feelinghealingfrequences7179 search banjo metal on youtube
I wish I could have just 1% of his amazing talent and skill!!
RolletjeTape You would not be a very talented man
Me too buddy
i met them a couple of years ago in Hamburg, lucky to stay in the same hotel as them, the Raddison, and loved the chat we had with them all,and we were back stage to meet them . made my stay worthwhile. Ray
i met them in Hamburg and i can say they were all great to talk to , Barney had us in stitches with his stories as did Patsy. met Lukes brother, lovely guy as well. the rest were as well. Ray
You enter in IMMORTALITY with this song !!! :) Thanks !! :)
magic,they dont make em like that anymore amazing cant get enough
Good man Barney - the 'second best' banjo player in The Dubliners RIP
This man was an absolute legend
They all were
Is and are
The clapping did my fucking head in...
RIP Barney
you will be sadly missed
The Maestro at work.
Going to see dubliners story next month, cant wait 🔥🔥
What is Dubliners Story
@@plasticbucket a musical its actually seven drunken nights-dubliners story, google for clips x
Unfiltered cigarettes Big scruffy beards and Guinness that's what gave them that unique sound, but mostly the Guinness.
Legends all of them.
Legends each and everyone of them.
I think it is amazing talent
Come to think of it, they have been playing for nearly 50 yrs.
Love the hat 👍 hoping to get a banjo soon.
He bought that hat in Norway the badge on the hat is the winter Olympics badge. B
Amazing
No lad better on the banjo than poor old Barney 😁😁👍👍
best banjo solo in the world!
amazing
Rest in peace my banjo idol.
I have been so Lucky to see Barney play with the Dubliners severel times at the Skagen Festival Denmark
thanks Martin for posting Barney at his brilliant best. Ray
It was his version of the Mason's Apron, as recorded in the 60s, that influenced me to start playing banjo. There was a particular 'energy' in his playing that no one else managed to transmit. One could argue that Kieran Hanrahan, Gerry O'Connor and Cathal Hayden are better banjo-players (kindly understand that I have great respect for those men too). There was an urgency about Barney's playing that the others just couldn't match. I can't explain it very well, maybe, but it was like he was trying to communicate a message. Perhaps THAT's how he influenced more banjoists in his time than any other Irish banjo player. The people he reached got that 'message'.
Very interesting insight. In some ways, American bluegrass banjo icon Earl Scruggs could be said to have had a similar sort of urgency. In bluegrass, it's sometimes called 'drive'.
captacoustic "Drive" is an often used term in bluegrass and is a necessary ingredient to that genre. It is quite fitting to describe Barney's playing. One can play with a drive... but that 'urgency' describes a real conviction by the way the notes are played. To give another example, Maria Callas wasn't technically the greatest of sopranos, but she sang each song as if it had been written especially for her, as if SHE were the one IN the song as opposed to she singing ABOUT the person. THAT's conviction :-)
But, back to banjo-players... It is also interesting to note that Barney & Early died within about a week of each other.
captacoustic ... apologies for use of capital-letters, by the way. I can't insert 'italics' for emphasis :-)
He's the reason I started to play to so I completely understand where you're coming from,legend.
A lot of people write Barney off as not " technically good " but what He could do more than any modern banjo player I've heard, is pump LIFE into tune and make that tune grab you by the ... you know what I mean : )
RIP man, could never meet a more happy joyful bloke in your life. True legend and last of the original Dubliners. RIP pal.
He could certainly make that banjo sing.
Unrivalled anywhere.
jackson was in the dubliners u twonk.
gud man barney!!!! i strive to play as well as u bu i have a long hard road ahead of me
Very Unusual To See John Sheahan Play The Guitar , Especially One That Looks Like It Was Played By Ronnie Drew
Apparently Barney taught him how to play the guitar and the mandolin/banjo and John taught Barney how to play the fiddle
Barney was the greatest banjo player in the world We miss you Barney
The end is incredible!
The master 🙌 end of story .
These are the sounds that inspired me to pick up my sister's old guitar and start playin' some songs. I am also just learnin' how to pick my very first banjo!!! I sure don't think i will ever sound as good as these guys, but i'm havin' a good time :)
THIS is music... It's real, and it's not overly digitized and it's not just a bunch of guys showing off how fast they can pick. It's just music, pure, simple, and great.
listen to that!
thats a Master at Play.
Sounds great!
So sad, that he's gone. He was brilliant.
Hero. Cheers. Been looking for that for i dont know how long
I saw them live last year...first time but i never thought that it would be the last time...blessed be barney
awsome!!!! what a legend banjo player. anyone dare criticise him!!
R.I.P. Ich bin stolz dich noch im Dezember 2011 live gesehen zu haben
Wonderful! :))
Thank you for sharing this clip with us on YT. :))
I was able to visit a concert in 2000. Amazing. And Barney was in good shape against Eamonn ;-) Great stuff, thanks
Untouchable .a class of his own
Unforgotten. Barney. One of a kind. 🇮🇪🙏🍀💚👍🍀🇮🇪😍😍😩 I love EIRE for sure.
Virtuoso, simple as unreal
80,000+ views... 1 dislike. This is the power of the Banjo.
Jaysus would yis not lightin up with the clapping crowd! An a master at work:)☘️👍
I am getting a Banjo just like this 1 for christmas :-D cant wait to start learning!!!
Barney, don't worry, you are in Heaven. It's just youtube playing here. Carry on Barney, make sure the lads are alight, and aright! And no messing up there!!
Barney forever among us!!!
Its gas on this DVD eveytime Barney picks up the accordion he plays the job of journeywork... Even when he's waiting in the airport as far as I remember..!!! :-D Legend