Bertram Levy At The Portland Old Time Music Gathering

[Stephen Mills]

Several videos of Bertram playing concertina or banjo with Kirk Sutphin. This link:

will give you a view with respect to which ones have a concertina.

[shelly0312]

Hey, thanks for posting these UTube vignettes‘; they were great to hear. Interestingly, in regards to another c.net post asking about turning up the volume (Geoff Wooff); it seemed to me when fiddle was taking center stage on these vids; Bertram Levy actually had to “tone it down” to let the fiddle voice be heard over his powerful concertina!

[Geoff Wooff]

It certainly was nice to see these two boys in action after listening to, and enjoying, their CD .

 

With a Stage performance there are often problems of balance and the sound 'on-stage' may be quite different to what we are hearing as an audience. I feel that this might be the case here because it would appear that there is a slight timing problem with the Concertina and Fiddle videos which are not evident with the Banjo/Fiddle duets.It is as if they cannot hear each other too well at times.

I don't know the reason for this out of sync effect.. perhaps it is meant to be... one instrument chasing the other.... or are they playing just a little too fast for the speed that Mr. Levy's concertina can comfortably be played at ?

 

Also that Rattling Keyboard would drive me insane.... Still I did enjoy the Videos.. more power to your elbows lads

Edited February 14, 2013 by Geoff Wooff