)Anyway, I've only run into lilting in three places thus far... 1 singer of airs & ballads at slow session who tried to lilt but with rather poor timing, informal (err... more informal than playing, even, really there's such a thing...) lilting of a tune by musicians trying to explain a melody without getting out the instrument ('You know, the one that goes 'daa-nnnn-de-a-day-daa-ahhh-mmmm' ... ') which is usually, but not always, good enough to convey the general idea, and finally, the Paddy Rafferty's Favorite on Matt Malloy's CD, which is about the only good example of lilting I've heard (but I liked the less than great lilting I've heard -anyway-... voices can't help being expressive, while with a bit of work one can make an instrument fail to be expressive...
)Anyway, the purpose of this post, other than burdening you all with my thoughts, is to ask if anyone knows of any recording or 'performing' (in the sense of touring) or Northeast USA sessioning lilters...
I know, I know, they're probably slightly less welcome than Bodhran players for much the same reason (the 'oh, I can do that!' influx-of-amateurs problem...) but still, if anyone has knowledge of this rare species of ITM, in captivity or in the wild, I'd like to try to catch sight of them.
--Chris
(Perhaps today I need -less- coffee? Nah, I must be needing more, that's it... )
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