Thursday 9 September 2010

Artist Index & Video Vault


Artist Index & Video Vault

I've added an alphabetic artist index to the blog, allowing for easy browsing among the albums that I've uploaded. It can be found on the right hand side of the screen under the Navigation heading.

The Artist Index also features a growing number of links to Youtube videos of performances by traditional Irish musicians. I've tried to include only those videos which are of a high quality - both in terms of musicianship and sound reproduction - but the sound quality of a number of videos which have both musical and historical significance can be less than perfect.

Any suggestions regarding videos of traditional Irish musicians you think worthy of inclusion will be gratefully received...

4 comments:

  1. Right, here goes some suggestions (all of them, off course, credited to the respective uploaders):

    Willie Clancy piping:
    1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5q-9XQbGyc
    2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6JzNhMjJDM

    Seamus Ennis piping:
    1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF3fW4Nox9U
    2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnRJS76ohQ0
    3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zCRh78StwY
    4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJX4uRwgR4Q

    Leo Rowsome piping (in the background of a movie, but , well, it is Leo Rowsome!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqocnoRXEUg

    John (and James and John Jr.) Kelly fiddlin':
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga4qocQkH0A

    James Kelly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb1K5BCtLY8

    Seamus Tansey:
    1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTo5Ae7Vz3c
    2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpCz69nBGXU
    3- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpCz69nBGXU
    4- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARm9t2z8q3g
    5- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwXjghbXQ7g
    6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLt3XdSpUso

    Café Irlanda (a brazilian group of ITM) playing a jig blended with a 'baião' (brazilian trad. dance) in a Rio de Janeiro irish pub (this 'globalized' world!):
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOsJxh9bDDk

    There are loads of excellent videos at you tube, actually. I can come up with more of them in time.

    All the best!

    Tiago.

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  2. Oh, now that I figured out how to browse for the videos I see that you already made an extensive collection (and probably already had uploaded some of my suggestions). I guess I did not follow the "high quality" rule too...

    It is alredy a very nice collection. So ,in fact, I could not suggest much more.

    Maybe the Full-set programs at the RTÉ website with Paddy Glackin and Lyam O'Flynn, and the one with Matt Molloy and John Carty (those you can watch in a better quality than at youtube), would be nice additions

    Here's the link for the first season (all of the programs of the first season are available for streaming, all very good in my opinion): http://www.rte.ie/tv/thefullset/series1.html

    Hope I could help more efficiently now! ;)

    All the best,

    Tiago.

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  3. Hello, I couldn't find another place to get in touch with you and I wasn't sure if these posts were supposed to relate to youtube videos. Anyways, I wanted to say thanks. This has been an amazing place to discover and I REALLY appreciate you doing this. This is music that I wasn't aware was in existence and I thought I had a fairly large collection of traditional Irish music already. Thanks!

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  4. Nae bother, you're very welcome...

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