OK So what are your all time favourite Concertina YouTubes?

I don't know if this has been tried before, but here goes anyway.

Who knows, if we make a really good job of it this time, perhaps the nice people up at C.net HQ will think about making this thread easily accessible to us all & fix it, as a sticky, at the top of the board.

Anyway, to get us started, here are some of my favourites, which I'm sure you all know.

Being an Anglo player myself, you won't be surprised to see my first one. For me, this one is essential viewing for all Anglo players & a lesson in how it should be done ... tastefully, & at just the right speed. The video was well taken too, which always helps.

1 ~ Anglo Concertina: Edel Fox at Éigse Mrs. Crotty 2008

My second, since I'm now the proud owner of a lovely old Wheatstone, is this fine bit of playing on an English.
{ Still showing my Irish musical roots with this one though! }

2 ~ English Concertina Paddy Taylor's, on English concertina

Next, sticking with the English, but getting away from the Irish style this time, as I fumble around trying to find all the notes with ease on my Wheatstone, I am enjoying this series of videos for the complete beginner on the English Concertina. Here's Part 1:

3 ~ English Concertina English Concertina for Beginners Part 1

Not much out there on the Tenor/Treble, but I enjoyed this one, especially the sound of those gorgeous low notes.

4 ~ Tenor/Treble Concertina Love's Farewell on a Tenor-Treble Concertina

As for the Duet Concertina. This has to be my favourite, so far.

5 ~ Duet Concertina Hayden Duet Concertina: Waltz Medley

Must not forget the Baritone. It's hard to resist the wonderful sound of these beasties, isn't it!

6 ~ Bass-Baritone Concertina Cancion de Cuna

I'm sure you have all stumbled onto some real crackers, which some of us might have missed, so go on, please share them with us, don't keep them all to yourselves!

Cheers
Dick

Well, I'm glad you liked my waltzes on Hayden duet! I'm working on another waltz...and a polka...and another cakewalk tune...and a jazz/soundtrack tune...and an old-time tune or two...and a Tex-Mex fiddle tune. Some are getting close.

Here's my favorite concertina video on YouTube I think, even though it's cut off at the beginning and end, and the sound is pretty bad. Brian Peters playing "Dallas Rag": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blZeRHg6RUM

Great tune, I wish I could play like that. And holding the concertina in the air too! I've tried that a few times, and it seems hopeless.

I'm torn between Michael Turner's Waltz and Rat in the Bed, both from ProfRat - aka Ratface of this forum. Lots of other stuff I like too but these are my favourites at the moment.

Pete.

For me, this is a close second favourite behind Juliette's other offering:

Fandanguillo
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyEAXmkNThI

I suppose I see a lot of YouTube, and every week there is always a new favorite. I can say there are about 5 that I saved, and play along with.

I just found this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ_q_ORctQk&fmt=18
I listened to it for about an hour and a half and it's still amazing

Thanks
Leo

Thanks, Leo.

"Stairway to Heaven" has been a long-time favourite. An old school friend of mine, Ray Homewood (he played Anglo for a little while, but that's another story), was a good guitarist. He was in the Army 1977/80, and spent his last 18 months in Germany, based at Paderborn. He quickly learnt to speak German (very gifted with languages) and formed a guitar and vocal duo with a German student named Sammy. Ray's party piece was "Stairway to Heaven".

Anyway, Ray left the Army in late summer 1980, and suggested that we might pay a visit to his friends in Paderborn. We went for almost a week, seeing in the New Year 1981. When we arrived at where Sammy had his flat, one of the girls who knew Ray, spotted him, rushed out, threw herself at him, and insisted that he play "Stairway to Heaven". It had been a long journey by trains, boat, and more trains, and we were travelling light. So; a guitar was found, and within minutes, Ray was playing the request.

As an aside, during our few days in Paderborn, one evening we went to a pub called the "Red House" for a couple of beers. Ray, two of his friends, and myself. 10 years later, at the Willie Clancy week, in County Clare, someone (not one of Ray's friends) in my concertina class recognised me from the "Red House", yet I didn't start playing concertina until I had been back from Germany for two months!

Some months back, I looked at the music for "Stairway to Heaven", thinking that I might send it to a friend. It would sound good on concertina.

Peter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcI6FHp4Vg0

I have enjoyed this one a number of times. Percy and Mary Horni 1933

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TABSf0AcdVQ

Mary MacNamara and Martin Hayes.....magic

Heres' Simon Thoumire at full pace on a couple of reels:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LiSnLR6Ojuk

Hi Peter

Looks like John Mock and his Morse heard you . Now if I can only find their Metallica album.

Thanks
Leo

It is, Mark - and there is one more magic thing about it: in the YouTube processing, the was cut, thank you very much.
In the original clip, on "Come West Along the Road", someone at RTE hadn't really understood that trad muscians will
tap their feet, in this case very close to the microphone stand on the floor
/Henrik

Mine is also Simon Thoumire, with Jim Sutherland:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VK5Avlw0tVA&...feature=related

Definitely Ernestine Healy's "Trip to London" Comhaltas video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoPKvrD-9jw

Smooth as silk.

Ah, Jim - I couldn't agree more -

And there is something about playing in acoustically "live" surroundings,
in rooms like that (probably a hallway in a school) isn't there? Personally,
I am very fond of playing in places like that (but that is another thread).

/Henrik

Here are two fine young Anglo players with very different styles.

Mairéad Corridan on Irish Concertina :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVdxnya3bKY


Ernestine Healy on Concertina with a Selection of Reels:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRLyErS-W4M

It is wonderful playing, for sure, but occurs to me, when I hear tunes being played like this, especially Mairéad's playing, i.e. so slowly & with LOADS & LOADS of ornamentation, that perhaps Irish Concertina playing might be going the same way as some of the Irish Dancing, where they have a habit of slowing the music right down to almost a snails pace ..... just so that they can fit in ever more fancy dance steps!

Cheers
Dick