They'll Be Good Yet

[Guest Peter Laban]

I took my 14 year old son along today for my weekly tunes with Kitty Hayes, we played a while on two concertinas and flute and after that he filmed Kitty and myself on his digital camera.

 

I have put the first of the resulting clips on youtube, more to follow over the next couple of days.

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KpcM6LEeon4

[buikligger]

hi Peter,

 

good idea to take your son and his camera along with you. Nice tunes, relaxed playing!

 

Dirk, Flanders

[Guest Peter Laban]

Thanks Dirk, he's on his mid term break and he likes to come along. And Kitty was asking after him, she likes it when he comes and brings the concertina (he has a few tunes she wants to learn). They played tunes together for a bit and I joined on the flute, she loves the flute so it was smiles all round.

 

He filmed seven or eight sets of tunes before his memory card was full and I will put them up over the next couple of days. It's slow work though getting them down the West Clare telephone lines.

Edited February 13, 2008 by Peter Laban

[buikligger]

Hi Peter and son, and Kitty,

 

I'm looking forward to see and hear these great tunes. You are pampering us. It's balm to the soul. Today we buried my most beloved uncle...

 

kind greetings

 

Dirk

[Guest Peter Laban]

Sorry for your loss Dirk.

[polkabeast]

I can't access from this link from either of my browsers.

 

Punishment for my American birth?

[Boney]

I can't access from this link from either of my browsers.

Worked fine for me, and I'm in the New World as well. I found myself smiling along to the music, thank you Peter. I shall save that to listen to when I'm feeling down.

[Leo]

Peter

 

Worked fine for me in Pennsylvania. Nicely done.

 

Polkabeast

 

Try this alternate link. It's in the US.

Na Ceannabháin Bhána/Hardiman the Fiddler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpcM6LEeon4

 

Thanks

Leo

[ceemonster]

[Henk van Aalten]

I have put the first of the resulting clips on youtube, more to follow over the next couple of days.

 

Great stuff Peter. Thanks a lot!

BTW: the title of the first tune "Na Ceannabháin Bhána".. What is the translation of the title in English (or even better Dutch )

 

Looking out for more!!

[Guest Peter Laban]

"Na Ceannabháin Bhána" means 'The Fairhaired Cannavans' Seamus Ennis collected the melody as a song from a woman in Connemara who used nonsense words to it while dandling two children, Mici and Maire, she was looking after. Their surname was Cannavan. Ennis played it as a Slip Jig and sometimes sang the song as an introduction.

 

It's also the Connemara name of a plant called the 'Bog Cotton' which grows on the bog in places where the turf has been dug, it has a puff of white cotton for a head.

 

 

[EDIT]:

 

I have since added two more clips :

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6N9oc_b6utI

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6N9oc_b6utI

Edited February 14, 2008 by Peter Laban

[Henrik Müller]

I took my 14 year old son along today for my weekly tunes with Kitty Hayes, we played a while on two concertinas and flute and after that he filmed Kitty and myself on his digital camera.

 

I have put the first of the resulting clips on youtube, more to follow over the next couple of days.

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KpcM6LEeon4

Lovely, lovely stuff, Kitty & Peter & Master Laban. Again I am thrilled by the amount of inspiration one can get out of a broadband connection!

/Henrik

[moonsagotunes]

Really enjoyed that!

 

I added it to my 'favorites' at YouTube.

[david_boveri]

thank you.

[Henk van Aalten]

"Na Ceannabháin Bhána" means 'The Fairhaired Cannavans' Seamus Ennis collected the melody as a song from a woman in Connemara who used nonsense words to it while dandling two children, Mici and Maire, she was looking after. Their surname was Cannavan. Ennis played it as a Slip Jig and sometimes sang the song as an introduction.

 

Thanks Peter for your answer. I notice a strong resemblance with the swaggering jig but I understand (from thesession.org) that they are two different tunes.

 

Another question.. what kind of concertina is Kitty playing? Is it a G/D or a C/G?

[Guest Peter Laban]

It's a pretty standard Rosewood ended Lachenal C/g

[markwil]

Thank you so much, lovely music. Is Kitty planning on releasing another CD, seems like I heard something that she might?

 

Mark

[Guest Peter Laban]

Not likely, not any time soon anyway.

 

 

I have now embedded the videos in our website

Edited February 15, 2008 by Peter Laban