McGoldrick & the fiddle
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McGoldrick & the fiddle
I heard that McGoldrick is playing the fiddle for the last 2 years and he played some tunes with it in some concerts. Do you know anything about this?
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Never seen him play it on stage, but saw him play whistle, pipes and flute in a session. Then, as he was taking a break, picked up (Donal O'Connor's) fiddle in the middle of a tune and finished the set on fiddle as if it was his main instrument...
I find this both inspiring and infuriating at the same time
I find this both inspiring and infuriating at the same time
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Some Tunes on my Box.net
Some Tunes on my Box.net
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This brings me good memories. In that session he played the mandoline I happened to take a bodhran I had finished that very same morning for the fun of trying it. After some hours playing and some more pints, he saw the bodhran into a worn out paper bag and said '...hey... thats's a bodhran, isn't it?' I was unwilling to take that thing out made as it was with poor tools by a very unexperienced fellow (me) and I modestly refused with some pseudo-technical explanations about the rough craftiness and so on. He went on and I said '...look, this is home made, I wasn't even able to achieve in giving a perfect round shape' and then he goes laughing: '...what the f**k are you saying, thats' sh*t, a bodhran is a bodhran, who cares about the shape?'
Said that, I gave him the thing and he played it fiercely for some sets, beating hard, pressing, pushing the skin, pouring beer onto the goat while I thought: '...no instrument will ever have so glorious birth and such a short life...'
Said that, I gave him the thing and he played it fiercely for some sets, beating hard, pressing, pushing the skin, pouring beer onto the goat while I thought: '...no instrument will ever have so glorious birth and such a short life...'
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Do you think he'd qualify as a high functioning savant? I wonder what a brain scan would reveal.
I saw a show about the brain on the Discovery channel the other night. Kim Peek, who is the true story behind Rain Man, has no corpus collosum and has minimal use of his left hemisphere.
Not to suggest Mike McGoldric has brain damage or is autistic. I'm just suggesting that his talent could be neurologically expedited. He's like a Daniel Tammet of the UK/Irish folk scene.
Daniel Tammet holds the European record for recounting pi to the 22,514th digit in just over 5 hours.
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See how it all ties together?
Cheers,
Aaron
I saw a show about the brain on the Discovery channel the other night. Kim Peek, who is the true story behind Rain Man, has no corpus collosum and has minimal use of his left hemisphere.
Not to suggest Mike McGoldric has brain damage or is autistic. I'm just suggesting that his talent could be neurologically expedited. He's like a Daniel Tammet of the UK/Irish folk scene.
Daniel Tammet holds the European record for recounting pi to the 22,514th digit in just over 5 hours.
=
See how it all ties together?
Cheers,
Aaron
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