Ashokan Farewell on Uilleann Pipes

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  • Опубликовано: 3 фев 2025

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  • @DS-bk3mc
    @DS-bk3mc Год назад +172

    One of my retirement dreams was to continue to learn the uillean pipe. However, a stroke took my dexterity away and I sold the Kennedy pipe I had bought years before in anticipation of my dream. This was one of the songs I had hoped to play, but I can still listen and appreciate it. I still love the pipes even though the only one I have is a self built version that I can’t play. While this was originally a fiddle song, it translates beautifully to the pipes.

    • @kelsohighlander1
      @kelsohighlander1  Год назад +33

      Thank you. I’m sorry you lost the dexterity from the stroke. That’s a really hard thing. I’m glad you’re still able to listen and enjoy the pipes. There’s nothing in the world quite like their sound. God bless.

    • @gerardokeeffe9640
      @gerardokeeffe9640 Год назад +16

      It's in your blood and your heart.

    • @virginiaconnor8350
      @virginiaconnor8350 Год назад +1

      Top bad my friend's Catholic Monsignor Pat Bishop didn't know how to play the bagpipes like Paddy Maloney did; he looks alot like our dear piper!

    • @melaniehellum1281
      @melaniehellum1281 Год назад +5

      We all seem to have a dream that time takes from us. I love simple tunes and always promised myself I had time. I use to torment a violin but now I play a tin whistle easy and sweet. No wretched tuning.

    • @bungee7503
      @bungee7503 Год назад +6

      It plays well on my flute, too. I’m glad you can at least enjoy the sound.

  • @clay3205
    @clay3205 Год назад +22

    We played this song at my brother's graveside service today, January 30th, 2024. Everyone in attendance remarked at how appropriate it seemed. A beautiful tribute and send off for my only older brother. R.I.P MNL 1977-2024.

    • @kelsohighlander1
      @kelsohighlander1  Год назад +5

      I’m so sorry for your loss my friend. That is such a hard thing.

    • @collizross
      @collizross 11 месяцев назад +5

      STILL too young at 47. Hugs m8.

    • @la_old_salt2241
      @la_old_salt2241 10 месяцев назад +5

      My sincerest condolences in your loss. God bless.

  • @donnarogers7732
    @donnarogers7732 Год назад +24

    Ken Burns choose this song played on the Violin as the Theme song for "The Civil War" It's the saddest Melody I've ever heard. Because I am Scottish by my Mother's Father, this song is a Farewell at many Scottish Rite Festivals. Brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it😥♥️✌️🙏🇺🇲

  • @gordonbradley3241
    @gordonbradley3241 Год назад +11

    A Scotsman and our war pipes make my blood fizz !
    But the Uilean pipes are sublime

  • @jimpomac
    @jimpomac 11 месяцев назад +6

    I play this tune on my Highland pipe but the Uillean pipe just takes it to another level. Thank you

  • @Canuckmom128
    @Canuckmom128 Год назад +25

    I just LOVE the sound of Uilleann pipes. It hits hard in the Irish part of my ancestry. I love this piece as well, BEAUTIFULLY played. Thank you for sharing it.

    • @egrogan6482
      @egrogan6482 Год назад +2

      Me, too! I was born a Murphy, adopted by Garrick family, and married a Donohue - I think that makes me triple Irish? LOL - hello fellow daughter of Ireland!

  • @spacelemur7955
    @spacelemur7955 Год назад +9

    Jay Ungar's gift to the world.

  • @fredwood1490
    @fredwood1490 Год назад +45

    This instrument is perfect for this song!!! It is also played perfectly! Thank you!

  • @maureenmartin4730
    @maureenmartin4730 Год назад +32

    Uileann pipes are beautiful … such a haunting sound….tune lovely❤

  • @biggieed949
    @biggieed949 Год назад +5

    Beautifully haunting…Thank you for this on December 31, 2023.

  • @somecuriosities
    @somecuriosities 2 года назад +27

    Excellent. It's almost as if your pipes themselves are crying and lamenting through song 👏

  • @lordpizza4391
    @lordpizza4391 Год назад +7

    It speaks to the soul of our people wherever they may find themselves nowadays. One sound of the pipes and we're home again.

  • @davedickinson9260
    @davedickinson9260 Год назад +19

    Oh wow Oh wow Oh wow. One of the most haunting and thrilling things I've heard in decades. Thank you Mr Jay Ungar and thank you to the great Gaels of Ireland for giving us this sound. My Irish blood is boiling tonight. Happy Christmas everyone from Lancashire, North West England. Peace and Love. RevDev xxx

  • @allandunn1431
    @allandunn1431 Год назад +23

    Gorgeous. What a haunting sound.

  • @michaeltoner3366
    @michaeltoner3366 Год назад +5

    This is quite brilliant, and about one of the most poignant songs of both our Civil War, and about all wars.

  • @josephosheavideos3992
    @josephosheavideos3992 Год назад +61

    Though Ashokan Farewell sounds as if it had been written in the 1800's, Jay Unger did not pen this haunting tune for fiddle and guitar until 1983, just a few years before Ken Burns produced his monumental PBS documentary , "The Civil War," in 1990.

    • @marklynch9527
      @marklynch9527 Год назад +2

      I got goosebumps

    • @brennenfitzgerald
      @brennenfitzgerald Год назад +6

      It was the farewell tune to the Ashokan Folk Music Festival….. Ken Burns heard it and requested it for his documentary…….
      Because of the sale of sheet music, the composer turned into a millionaire nearly overnight.

    • @knoll9812
      @knoll9812 Год назад +1

      I though it was a variation on major McLeod's lament in the death of his wife

    • @sanjivjhangiani3243
      @sanjivjhangiani3243 Год назад +5

      The only piece of Civil War era music not actually composed during the Civil War!

  • @HPNomad
    @HPNomad Год назад +18

    The high notes send shivers up my spine. Excellent job my friend.

    • @kelsohighlander1
      @kelsohighlander1  Год назад +1

      Thank you!

    • @geoh7777
      @geoh7777 Год назад +2

      That was so gorgeous.
      I'm so glad I dropped by.
      Subscribed.

  • @madeirafonseca6383
    @madeirafonseca6383 Год назад +7

    One of my favorite tunes done beautifully. Thank you Sir.

  • @philhand5830
    @philhand5830 Год назад +5

    Never heard these pipes before now. They have a haunting attraction.

  • @stevebirmingham9650
    @stevebirmingham9650 4 месяца назад +1

    This recording should be capured on CD superb technical recording want this played when my times comes brilliant

  • @hungadunga523
    @hungadunga523 Год назад +1

    Absolutely lovely.

  • @harryb7149
    @harryb7149 Год назад +3

    Simply beautiful!

  • @ariellelester655
    @ariellelester655 10 месяцев назад +1

    I absolutely love this song on this instrument. So beautiful ❤😌

  • @debrabolton9372
    @debrabolton9372 Год назад +4

    Hauntingly beautiful! ❤

  • @huntsail3727
    @huntsail3727 Год назад +2

    Amazing, Beautiful!

  • @aidanphelan2952
    @aidanphelan2952 Год назад +4

    This is a tune from the American civil war and is full of Celtic flavour - what a beautiful rendition on the uillean pipes🙏

    • @jansport0409
      @jansport0409 Год назад +2

      From the documentary The Civil War by Ken Burns. Composed by Jay Untar in then 20th century.

    • @uptoolate2793
      @uptoolate2793 Год назад

      Not exactly.

  • @midtwilightblue
    @midtwilightblue Год назад +14

    Found this in search of seeing if anyone has performed a cover of Awesome God by Eden’s Bridge. Shocked to see most of the results are of Braveheart and Titanic.
    Glad to come across this beautiful piece!

  • @maureenmurphy6003
    @maureenmurphy6003 3 месяца назад +1

    My favorite version is Chuck Leavell's piano solo. Makes me cry every time I hear it.

  • @libbynoska7379
    @libbynoska7379 Год назад +1

    Makes me cry .

  • @thisisjen2005
    @thisisjen2005 Год назад +12

    I think this is incredible.

  • @jeffhildreth9244
    @jeffhildreth9244 Год назад +1

    Excellent. Thank you.

  • @mattbecker5876
    @mattbecker5876 9 дней назад

    If only one piece of music were to survive, let it be this very piece.

    • @kelsohighlander1
      @kelsohighlander1  9 дней назад

      @@mattbecker5876 You are so kind! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

  • @claytonschase
    @claytonschase 2 года назад +6

    Beautiful

  • @colinellicott9737
    @colinellicott9737 Год назад +1

    Delightful. Thx.

  • @lawrencevandenberg7725
    @lawrencevandenberg7725 Год назад +4

    Lullaby for serious dreamers...💭😌

  • @anonymuswere
    @anonymuswere Год назад +4

    'scuse me...there's cannon smoke in my eyes...

  • @wendyhutchins945
    @wendyhutchins945 Год назад +1

    My favorite pipes

  • @robertryan7397
    @robertryan7397 Год назад +1

    A haunting piece of music beautifully played,I came across this version played on the uillean pipe by chance you now have a new fan

  • @manelrui222
    @manelrui222 Год назад +3

    Me encanta el sonido y la expresividad que tiene. Saludos desde el sur de España.

  • @eoinoriabhaigh8186
    @eoinoriabhaigh8186 Год назад +2

    Lovely playing

  • @Rojokokomo
    @Rojokokomo Год назад +1

    Lovely! ❤

  • @jiyong21cn
    @jiyong21cn Год назад

    So touching and nostalgia.

  • @jamesburnett7085
    @jamesburnett7085 11 месяцев назад +1

    Wonderful

  • @dannywhelchel4801
    @dannywhelchel4801 10 месяцев назад +1

    Very beautiful

  • @outpostraven
    @outpostraven Год назад +1

    Marvelous

  • @beckybishop9872
    @beckybishop9872 2 года назад +2

    Yes!

  • @bufordt.justice2020
    @bufordt.justice2020 Год назад

    Beautifully done Sir!

  • @Bookstorewalla
    @Bookstorewalla Год назад +2

    Very few people know the true story of this beautiful song and assume it much older origins.. From Wikipedia : "Ungar wrote “Ashokan Farewell” with the Civil War in mind. But he wrote it on a September morning in 1982, after the end of his third Ashokan summer music and dance camp on this property, which the State University of New York at New Paltz owned and had used since 1967 as a field campus for environmental education."
    By the way, this Upstate area of New York is gorgeous.

    • @glennwing4214
      @glennwing4214 11 месяцев назад +1

      I first went to college at SUNY New Paltz in 1966, and lived in the area for 6 years. It's an unbeleivably beautiful place, full of powerful memories for me. The Ashokan Resevoir is gorgeous. Not surprised that this song was written nearby.

  • @arronsmith3813
    @arronsmith3813 Год назад +2

    This is an amazing version in it's own right.
    Would love to hear this paired up with a violin.
    Or perhaps a violin and highland pipes 🤔
    Again VERY NICE version. I shared it
    on mt FB wall. 👍🍺

  • @piedpiperprod
    @piedpiperprod Год назад +2

    Nice playing. Would be nice to credit Jay Unger for composing the tune. Ken Burns made it famous, but Jay composed and performed it with his wife Molly Mason on guitar. Good people and great musicians.

  • @pato7614
    @pato7614 Год назад +3

    😂I have this played at my funeral fitting for an Irishman

  • @jeremypreston5009
    @jeremypreston5009 Год назад +14

    This is a very personal piece of music for me as it was something of a warm up for myself and my violin teacher before lessons. He died suddenly from leukemia. This was years ago....
    But to hear it on one of my favorite instruments.... Incredible
    Question, not criticism, is there a reason you decided to forego the registers?

    • @kelsohighlander1
      @kelsohighlander1  Год назад +11

      Hi, Thanks for listening. Yes, I didn't feel the need to add the regulators in this one as I wanted the accompaniment to be strictly guitar like in the original. Thanks for your comment.

    • @jeremypreston5009
      @jeremypreston5009 Год назад +4

      @@kelsohighlander1 it's still beautifully played

    • @jeremypreston5009
      @jeremypreston5009 Год назад +9

      ​@@kelsohighlander1 PS you played a part in inspiring me to get my bow rehaired and new strings on my violin and I'm playing it again after many many years away.
      I'll let you guess the first thing I played on it

  • @mickcostigan8042
    @mickcostigan8042 Год назад +1

    O no 'twas the truth in her eyes ever dawning

  • @Hubcap888
    @Hubcap888 10 месяцев назад

    Video?? Looks like a photograph

  • @nigelneill4035
    @nigelneill4035 Год назад +4

    And this isn't even an old irish tune.

  • @cre8ivenerd
    @cre8ivenerd Год назад +2

    This is phenomenal. Do you have it available to buy or download in a higher res?

  • @TedHouk
    @TedHouk Год назад +1

    A few more pipes and holes and golly levers? My GH pipes have a new bag at least louder. Eirn go brach

  • @gerhardthoffmann
    @gerhardthoffmann 10 месяцев назад

    So I will become for the rest of my life.

  • @PE9A3p4hUfwv
    @PE9A3p4hUfwv 11 месяцев назад

    Interesting. I have never heard of this instrument. How is it different from what I call bagpipes?

    • @kelsohighlander1
      @kelsohighlander1  11 месяцев назад

      It is a type of bagpipe that hails from Ireland. But it is played sitting down, inflated with a bellows, and it has a greater melodic range than the typical highland bagpipes.

  • @johnjewell219
    @johnjewell219 10 месяцев назад

    👍👏👏👏🇦🇺🐈‍⬛😎

  • @Kitiwake
    @Kitiwake Год назад

    Often played it on the flute.

  • @jamesburnett7085
    @jamesburnett7085 2 месяца назад +1

    Sounds so much better than traditional bagpipes.

  • @brianarndt6439
    @brianarndt6439 Год назад

    Fuck the strippy tube I want a corroding tube

  • @SpielinWhelan
    @SpielinWhelan Год назад

    Go h-alainn !

  • @bobbybatte417
    @bobbybatte417 Год назад +1

    It's ok. I prefer the violin, though.

    • @spmoran4703
      @spmoran4703 Год назад +1

      It's a Appalachian tune ( Irish American) it can be played on both pipes or fiddle .

  • @kathleenkeane4364
    @kathleenkeane4364 Год назад +2

    I prefer it played on the violin.

    • @kelsohighlander1
      @kelsohighlander1  Год назад +2

      Thanks for watching anyway!

    • @garmisra7841
      @garmisra7841 Год назад +1

      I really like this version more than the original. It sounds like a tune that was made to play on the Uillean pipes.

    • @resourcedragon
      @resourcedragon Год назад +1

      Normally I like music played on the instrument/s for which it was written. In this case, I'm going to make an exception. Laments and pipes are meant to go together.
      The only question that needs settled is whether Uilleann or Scottish Highland pipes are better. (I'm going to guess at an honourable draw.)

  • @peterchristian541
    @peterchristian541 10 месяцев назад

    Dreadful tune.

    • @kelsohighlander1
      @kelsohighlander1  10 месяцев назад

      Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I’m curious why you think so?

    • @peterchristian541
      @peterchristian541 10 месяцев назад

      @@kelsohighlander1 It’s so repetitive. It just irritates me.

    • @kelsohighlander1
      @kelsohighlander1  10 месяцев назад

      @@peterchristian541 Fair enough. Have a great day.

    • @peterchristian541
      @peterchristian541 10 месяцев назад

      @@kelsohighlander1 Happy Easter 🐣