Actually, not at all surprising, if you had ever had the good fortune to have met Darach.

_________________
"There's fast music and there's lively music. People don't always know the difference"

I meant surprising to encounter the digital footprints of the dead.

Mike and Paddy Rafferty : "The New Mown Meadows" - flute and "lilting".
https://youtu.be/PWvX18fFdtw

2 other recently-posted clips, not "flute-related" :

Whistle playing, Aberdeen 1972 : https://youtu.be/cech5GiJ4x0

"De Danann" - "Cathleen Hehir's" - 1975 : https://youtu.be/QzGoP75tBm8

_________________
"There's fast music and there's lively music. People don't always know the difference"

Seamus Tansey playing "The Cliffs Of Moher" followed by "Paddy Fahey's" jig :
https://youtu.be/Bv0Pyys4CGo

_________________
"There's fast music and there's lively music. People don't always know the difference"

Roger Sherlock : "The Return Of Spring / The Mountain Pathway" : https://youtu.be/VqTWiog3qEI

_________________
"There's fast music and there's lively music. People don't always know the difference"

Patsy Hanly : "Ah, Surely / Martin Wynne's No.3" : https://youtu.be/KR-iR_-92kk

_________________
"There's fast music and there's lively music. People don't always know the difference"

Love this!

_________________
Sol's Tunes (new tune 7/2019)

Duet - Seamus MacMathuna and Mick O'Connor : https://youtu.be/Z-hhWnrbeK4

_________________
"There's fast music and there's lively music. People don't always know the difference"

Catherine McEvoy - Willie Clancy Summer School Flute Class 1980 - "The Winding Hills Of Sligo / The Tinker's Daughter"
https://youtu.be/W77x7-e9qyo

_________________
"There's fast music and there's lively music. People don't always know the difference"

2nd pair of reels from Catherine McEvoy. I'm sure I had a name for the first one, but can't think of it at all - any help appreciated.
https://youtu.be/h9PV15tuiXg

_________________
"There's fast music and there's lively music. People don't always know the difference"

Michael Flatley, 16-18 All-Ireland champion, 1975 :
https://youtu.be/mZ6KMEDMNA8

_________________
"There's fast music and there's lively music. People don't always know the difference"

Seamus Tansey : "Colonel Fraser / Mrs. McLeod" :
https://youtu.be/nX6t4KRM4sI

_________________
"There's fast music and there's lively music. People don't always know the difference"

From a fairly rare recording - Harry Bradley, Adrian Scahill, Jesse Smith - "The Chorus jig".
An amazing piece of music.
https://youtu.be/N4b6PaHrLkQ

_________________
"There's fast music and there's lively music. People don't always know the difference"

Fred Finn [ fiddle ] and Peter Horan [ flute ] : "The Duke Of Leinster / The London Lasses"
https://youtu.be/l3MYnIB7RFc

_________________
"There's fast music and there's lively music. People don't always know the difference"

Mick Woods : "Lucky In Love / The Bloom Of Youth" : https://youtu.be/KJhjVpcHBMw

_________________
"There's fast music and there's lively music. People don't always know the difference"