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Irish Concertina soul man Noel Hill will do one show in the greater Los Angeles area this August. Noel's much-vaunted technical wizardry is equaled and perhaps surpassed by his undying swing, and his expressive affinity with the emotional heart of the Irish traditional repertoire, from ferocious ree...

The Donegal News was teasing an "exclusive" interview supposedly in their Friday edition, and I see their online dailies are available only to subscribers. I do see that one can purchase a single issue, but not clear whether it's the edition of your choice. Will buy it if I can have that o...

tony macmahon may be willing to communicate with you or give you leads. or, maybe not. but he is perhaps the sole traditional irish musician to be public with opinions and/or stands related to these issues. and he spent decades as a documentarian so may be able to grok where you are coming from. or ...

isn't mr. d'arcy the insufferably ginchy musical instigator ?????

i just saw this thread for the 1st time.....i have played in sessions that boasted the delightful and generous mr. agnew as a co-anchor on a number of happy occasions. not sure about who he has been combo-ing with last year or two, but used to be you could often find him teaming in skedded sesh cont...

[Do most players of Irish music use both rows or do some use only one on a double row accordion?] everybody who plays two-row box uses both rows at least a LITTLE. even if you stick to keys that play "on the row" of your name row, you're still gonna take a dip to the second row a tad to ge...

the disclaimer being that when you look at that list, it's not the end of the story, because the difference in the boxes isn't really their [i]tunings[/i], since both boxes have identical capacity to play with the "back-and-forth" pumping bellows phrasing often called "c#/d," and...

i have the solo cds by seamus bugler and paddy o'donohughe, and have been looking forward to enjoying this one. oh, to be at the feakle festival for the opening evening honoring seamus, a gentleman among gentlemen with fantastic taste in the tunes and vast knowledge and love for the repertoire....go...

lucy farr's cassette on veteran tapes came out in the early 1990s when she was eighty years old. a big touchstone for me. "heart and home," veteran tapes 123. we can only wish for a re-relase....

[Have a look out for Peter Laban & Kitty Hayes' CD "They'll Be Good Yet" as an example, pitched in C.] yes, that record got me finally willing to seriously start learning flat keys..... love the tune choices and how they sound in those keys.....see also seven or eight fab youtubes by t...

please make lots of youtubes for those of us in the hinterlands.....

[Am I to assume that the only difference between a diatonic two row button accordion and a melodeon, is the melodeon is a single row instrument?] "melodeon" is sometimes used in a [i]specific[/i] sense to mean, a single-row instrument which is BOTH: diatonic AND bisonoric however, "me...

actually, i came across the sort of thing we were talking about, just forgot that this thread was still going....this weltmeister is the same size dimensions and weight as their 48-bass, 26-key Perle model....... http://www.buttonbox.com/piano-accordions.html WELTMEISTER RUBIN 30/60/II/3 Weltmeister...

i am actually teaching myself cba now, c system, not bayan. with cba, you can get small models that still give you 30 notes (plenty for itm, and enough for most other world folk genres) in a box of the same dimensions and weight (11 pounds-ish) as the compact PAs that only have 24 or 26 treble notes...

i would advise making sure your PA has a minimum of 31 keys. the compact PAs with 24 keys are simply not enough for itm and will drive you mad. ideal would be, 34 to 37, but there are compact PAs here and there with 30 or 31, which will suffice for itm.... when PA is derided as not suitable for ITM,...