Thank you ...great uploads. Didn't know Paddy , but met his father a long time ago now ...there were a few fine musicians on the accordion around then that are almost forgotten with few recordings of their playing ...but the music revival was only getting going then .
Thank God we're now generally without that awful, angular piano accompaniment approach that you can hear in this - his wonderful playing would be more wonderful without it. The great innovation of the late 20th Century was the revolution in the accompaniment to Irish traditional music - lead by people like Donal Lunny and Arty McGlynn. Before that, it wasn't understood that Irish music pre-dates 'classical' music - you have to play more 'open' chords against it to celebrate its 'lilt' - or sometimes just a drone, as with the uilleann pipes.
Quite agree. The clanking joanna does nothing for the music, but it's something that crops up in many genres over the years. It's almost as if music can't be "proper music" without a piano accompaniment.
@@InArcadiaSum Thanks - so you're 'Et in Arcadia (sum)' - would you not prefer to be 'Et in Arcadia (erat)' - I'm just thinking of the ambiguity regarding the phrase 'Et in Arcadia Ego' - Poussin's two paintings, both with that title, represent both meanings - but I presume you know about that?
Wonderful playing! Even as we listen to this seventy years later it sounds amazing. The impact among box players at the time was revolutionary.
That's the man who laid the foundation for them all a true genius
I cannot believe that audience and judges feedback in this show is that he didn't smile enough !
Thank you ...great uploads. Didn't know Paddy , but met his father a long time ago now ...there were a few fine musicians on the accordion around then that are almost forgotten with few recordings of their playing ...but the music revival was only getting going then .
It was they were told not smile when they were learning the in instrument and in competitions great music ☘☘
Thank you for sharing this wonderful history!
Great tune, played excellent 👏
Pure genius rip Patrick xxx
Great performance.
Super job
Brilliant lift
Brill...
its sally..not sunny
The host is abysmal
Thank God we're now generally without that awful, angular piano accompaniment approach that you can hear in this - his wonderful playing would be more wonderful without it. The great innovation of the late 20th Century was the revolution in the accompaniment to Irish traditional music - lead by people like Donal Lunny and Arty McGlynn. Before that, it wasn't understood that Irish music pre-dates 'classical' music - you have to play more 'open' chords against it to celebrate its 'lilt' - or sometimes just a drone, as with the uilleann pipes.
Quite agree. The clanking joanna does nothing for the music, but it's something that crops up in many genres over the years. It's almost as if music can't be "proper music" without a piano accompaniment.
@@InArcadiaSum Thanks - so you're 'Et in Arcadia (sum)' - would you not prefer to be 'Et in Arcadia (erat)' - I'm just thinking of the ambiguity regarding the phrase 'Et in Arcadia Ego' - Poussin's two paintings, both with that title, represent both meanings - but I presume you know about that?
I think it’s still pretty much there, but yeah, mostly in ceilidh bands, especially the Scottish ones
amazing, and on an accordion!!! the Irish could find a way to play good music on a rock!!!