Re: [Harp-L] Looking for Traditional Irish Music

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is Irish music like a car dealership where you can go in and order the
colors and options from a list?

Or is it something that grows organically, where you find what you find what the players have already created before you try to make it conform to your ideas?



Tremolo is an important part of Irish harmonica (French Canadian, too, by the way). So is chordal playing.
And Eddie Clarke was one of the most brilliant Irish harmonica trad
players ever - on chromatic.



Some names:



James Conway

John Murphy (and the Murphy Family)

Noel Pepper

Mick Kinsella



You already know about Brendan Power and Rick Epping.

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa

Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5

--- On Wed, 1/21/09, James boutilier <jamesb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: James boutilier <jamesb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Looking for Traditional Irish Music
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 7:23 AM

hey
after a failed attempt to buy from an online musician, I thought I'd try
ya'll in here before i say #$%^ it and stick with Youtube.

im just trying to find some Irish harmonica music like the kind id like to
learn.

you wouldnt think it would be such a battle, but it has...

anyway,

im looking for "Traditional" Irish Harmonica.
no chromatics
no tremolo, etc...

just Diatonics 10 hole Irish Harmonica. Clean notes (not so much into
Vamping/chording, probably cuz im not there yet)

It seems (if i got the terms right now) I like slower SLIP JIGS (more
melancholy type?), and Air (droney type).

If that makes sense and anyone can suggest a CD, or a local mate that cut a CD
or sends downloads or something, please lmk.

Note: I have used Search, etc.... and I checked the bunch from my last thread,
but things like - Pigtown sounded too modern/mountainy?, I got ahold of Tommy
Basker, but it's note a Pure Sound, it's more Vamping/chording.

Well, thanks in advance for any help anyone feels like throwing in.

Kindest,

jim


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