What got you hooked to 'our' music?
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What got you hooked to 'our' music?
We're a big gang of different people, I was wondering what it was that got you hooked to this kind of music in the first place.
I myself got hooked in 1991, the first time I went to Scotland, my first cd, I believe, the compact collection by the corries.
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I had an instant love for Scotland, and for its music (among other things ), and so the story goes..
I myself got hooked in 1991, the first time I went to Scotland, my first cd, I believe, the compact collection by the corries.
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I had an instant love for Scotland, and for its music (among other things ), and so the story goes..
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One of my very first traditional LPs was a Corries one too. I still love 'em to bits. But what started me off was very specific. I bought a cheapie compilation double LP in 1980 which had all sorts of Irish stuff on it, a bit of Christy, De Dannan, Bothies, Fureys etc. But one track just set me on fire and I just had to find out more. It was Planxty doing Raggle Taggle Gypsy/Give Me Your Hand. I couldn't believe how such energy could come from an all-acoustic band. I didn't even know what the instruments were! That got me blood up for ITM, but the record that got me playing was that great Jackie Daly solo album, Music from Sliabh Luachra Vol.6 (what an unromantic title!).amar wrote:We're a big gang of different people, I was wondering what it was that got you hooked to this kind of music in the first place.
I myself got hooked in 1991, the first time I went to Scotland, my first cd, I believe, the compact collection by the corries.
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I had an instant love for Scotland, and for its music (among other things ), and so the story goes..
Steve
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He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
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In 2003, in response to a question from my wife about Christmas gifts, I suggested one of those cheap little Irish whistles. Well, you all know what happens next, first one, then another, then a Susato etc.
For me, the interest in Irish music flowed from an interest in the whistle. That said, I've liked folk music, C&W, bluegrass since the 1960s. ITM is a root source for many aspects of these musical areas. It didn't hurt that I'm middle-aged, 3rd generation Irish American and curious about my heritage. The whistle is now leading to a flute and the concertina.
And to be perfectly frank, I've always liked Van Morrison and I still like most of the music on Irish Heartbeat.
For me, the interest in Irish music flowed from an interest in the whistle. That said, I've liked folk music, C&W, bluegrass since the 1960s. ITM is a root source for many aspects of these musical areas. It didn't hurt that I'm middle-aged, 3rd generation Irish American and curious about my heritage. The whistle is now leading to a flute and the concertina.
And to be perfectly frank, I've always liked Van Morrison and I still like most of the music on Irish Heartbeat.
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The same here. The first book I learned tunes from was a Fairport Convention songbook. But all the local musicians play primarily Irish, so that's what I moved on to. Then it was a matter of what I got exposed to and liked from there, so that today my primary interests are South Sligo and Newfoundland tunes.dwinterfield wrote:For me, the interest in Irish music flowed from an interest in the whistle.
I'm sure if instead there had been a lot of, say, Northumberland-style whistle players around here, I'd be playing that instead!
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I always had a passing interest. When younger I liked punk and hardcore music, and loved some of the really fast Irish music I heard. Naturally, I loved the Pogues. It wasn't until I met my Irish girlfriend that I became interested in playing. She had some great stuff in her music collection and knows several Clare musicians. The CD that got me really hooked was the Josephine Marsh Band's. It helps that there's a great Trad scene in this area.
I don't have a drop of Irish in me, and I don't really care. I love the music. I would like to explore Sicilian folk music, though.
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I don't have a drop of Irish in me, and I don't really care. I love the music. I would like to explore Sicilian folk music, though.
:)
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I have had Irish music around me for just about my whole life. When I was 9 we had the Clancy Bros and Tommy Makem on vinyl. In elementary school we had an Irish priest who directed a St Patrick's Day show with all the students participating. All three of my sisters did Irish stepdancing. The youngest one actually won some medals at various Feishes. I had long periods when rock, classical and jazz and flamenco took me over. When a wrist injury ended my guitar playing days I searched for a way to continue making music. I had had three whistles in a drawer that I had noodled around on for about ten years. I decided that the whistle could be a way to make music that wouldn't be too affected by my gimpy wrist. I called the local Irish American club, they sent me a list of teachers and after 3.5 years I'm able to play lots of tunes but I'll never play at session speed because of the wrist. So I've come back to my origins and I enjoy it very much.
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Me too. (Listening to T & S that is, although I was born in Washington state)
My aunt gave my dad a bunch of tapes when I was around seven years old. I remember the Battlefield Band, the CHieftains, and Steeleye Span among them. I *think* it originally started when I was even younger and saw my first pipe band concert, but I can't recall. In a past life I was a blind harper to the McShaisters too.
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Doing it backwards since 2005.
At my birth, I'm told. The doctor came out to the waiting and said to my grandfather, George Henry you have a grandson! With that he wheeled (and I mean wheeled, he had been drinking all night in the Sergeant's Mess)around went down the hallway on the maternity ward floor, opened the doors to the stairway and barked out "Pipes and Drums by the centre march!" With that, up came five highland pipers and three drummers, marching down the maternity ward at six in the morning and formed a circle, playing their drunken hearts out, as my dad stood there with me!
The hospital called the police, my grandfather knew all the cops, so they marched and played their way out of the hospital. That was my introduction to music that's been with me all my life.
When I was five or six, I use to visit my grandfather in the regiment's stores, he was the quartermaster but then I use to go over and sit in the back of the piping room and watch and listen. One day my mother heard someone whistling pipe tunes in the living room, she looked in and it was me. Now my mom played piano, so she knew that this lad was whistling tunes in key and note for note. She approached the pipe major who was a dear family friend, a couple weeks later when I slipped into the back of the classroom, Jock came up to me and handed me a half size chanter and took me into the corner for my first lesson. This kid slept with that chanter and spent every waking moment trying to play what I had learned. Sadly we move away two years later and because of family economics I never had another lesson.
But, we moved from southern Ontario to the Ottawa valley, and a whole new range of music presented itself to me that was new and wonderful but at the same time familiar but these were fiddlers not pipers! The fiddlers of the Ottawa valley are a mix of Scot, Irish, Welsh, and French-Canadien and oh what music! I joined the school dance group that did dances to the various breeds of music and it was a delight.
That is the beginning for me and it has never lefted me. When my world is topsy turvy, on goes the highland pipers on the stereo and it goes for hours but it never takes that long for me come out of whatever funk I was in.
MarkB
The hospital called the police, my grandfather knew all the cops, so they marched and played their way out of the hospital. That was my introduction to music that's been with me all my life.
When I was five or six, I use to visit my grandfather in the regiment's stores, he was the quartermaster but then I use to go over and sit in the back of the piping room and watch and listen. One day my mother heard someone whistling pipe tunes in the living room, she looked in and it was me. Now my mom played piano, so she knew that this lad was whistling tunes in key and note for note. She approached the pipe major who was a dear family friend, a couple weeks later when I slipped into the back of the classroom, Jock came up to me and handed me a half size chanter and took me into the corner for my first lesson. This kid slept with that chanter and spent every waking moment trying to play what I had learned. Sadly we move away two years later and because of family economics I never had another lesson.
But, we moved from southern Ontario to the Ottawa valley, and a whole new range of music presented itself to me that was new and wonderful but at the same time familiar but these were fiddlers not pipers! The fiddlers of the Ottawa valley are a mix of Scot, Irish, Welsh, and French-Canadien and oh what music! I joined the school dance group that did dances to the various breeds of music and it was a delight.
That is the beginning for me and it has never lefted me. When my world is topsy turvy, on goes the highland pipers on the stereo and it goes for hours but it never takes that long for me come out of whatever funk I was in.
MarkB
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I love this story!MarkB wrote:At my birth, I'm told. The doctor came out to the waiting and said to my grandfather, George Henry you have a grandson! With that he wheeled (and I mean wheeled, he had been drinking all night in the Sergeant's Mess)around went down the hallway on the maternity ward floor, opened the doors to the stairway and barked out "Pipes and Drums by the centre march!" With that, up came five highland pipers and three drummers, marching down the maternity ward at six in the morning and formed a circle, playing their drunken hearts out, as my dad stood there with me!MarkB
For me it probably started back in high school, when my dad and I joined a Scottish country dance group for lessons. I stayed after the lessons were over and kept dancing.
And Archie Fisher. Can't remember when I bought that LP, back around the same time.
Jennie