John Skelton videos

Casey Burns · Post by **Casey Burns** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:41 pm

Go to YouTube and search for "John Skelton" and you will find some nice videos of him playing flute and pipes (including one of him playing on one of my Bb flutes in Mopane. The D flute is one of Pat Olwell's). These are some nice recordings! Just not long enough!

Casey

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:11 pm

Thanks, great videos!

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:48 pm

Thanks, Casey! I've had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Skelton's Weapon of Mass Terror

on several occasions, and it's invariably gorgeous. Oooh, I hope he's playing The Sheep in the Boat in one of the videos; that's one of my favorites he does on your flute!

rama · Post by **rama** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:03 pm

link to bflatness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtbKZ830 ... re=related

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:17 pm

Thanks, lovely. Here's a link to Olwellness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr-qOnu1 ... re=related

That's an amazing sound, yes?

rama · Post by **rama** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:34 pm

a mighty blow from a great solo performance. hoorah!

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:36 pm

YAAAAAH! The Sheep! The Sheep! Happiness.

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:38 pm

How did you find out about Fluffy?

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:04 pm

Vee haf vays ....

Speaking of, don't know where I heard him tell this but it's a sad story ... the tune comes from a tale of islanders who tried to bring their sheep to the mainland (can't remember whether they were evacuating the island during the Famine or taking the sheep to market, sorry). The seas were heavy, the sheep panicked ... and the boat, being a curragh made of basically shellacked canvas stretched on a frame, was punched full of holes from their hooves. All were lost.

Casey Burns · Post by **Casey Burns** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:27 pm

It behooves them to be more careful next time.

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:40 pm

Oh that was so, so baaaaaaa-d.

Thanks again for the hookup, Casey!

Irish Marine · Post by **Irish Marine** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:46 pm

Thanks for posting Casey. I had the pleasure of learning from John in a few classes. Love his playing and was waiting for his playing to get onto YouTube. Awesome! I listen to his version of Craig's Pipes everyday.

dcopley · Post by **dcopley** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:35 am

The "Sheep in the Boat" jig is attributed to Junior Crehan and is derived from the air / lament "Anach Cuain". For more background on the tragedy, here is a good summary: http://www.angelfire.com/wi/shamrockclu ... ge123.html . A very nice recording of the air and the jig is on Kevin Crehan's CD An Bhabog sa Bhadog.

Dave Copley
Loveland, Ohio

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:08 am

Thank you, David! I did a cursory search on it last night before posting what I remembered of it, but didn't turn up anything -- I'm glad you have more patience (and better search skills).

This is great. Thanks again!

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:11 am

Aha. A lake, calm weather, a fair/market, and a misguided attempt to stop a leak. Yup, details I sort missed, there ....

Thanks once more, and my apologies for any misleading.

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