Yeah, got the same impression. Accordion and fiddle can sound good together when playing different parties for example when accompanying a song (good example I heard is "Irish Battallion" sung by David Kincaid with Liz Knowles on the fiddle and John Whelan on the accordion - both instruments can well be heard, creating a beautiful layered polyphony), but when just playing a dance tune together the result is often is mutual redundancy, just making it harder to hear the nuances of each instrument.
Have they got the Tea Boy on the Sound Desk or something? Whoever it is doing the sound, he needs to be given his jotters; you can't hear the fiddle at all!
Damien Mullane was already a groovy master in 2008.
Love his Cajun mélodeon 🙂
Now that's what I call music!
It's not the box that makes the difference, its the player and he is the best I've heard
He's lively alright!!!!heard him in Dingle a few years ago.fair operator
Snare and brushes from the Bodhran, magic.
great!!!! from Bulgaria with love!!!!!:))))))
What a class style, Damien has.
i Love you Ireland!!!!
Fantastic music
Yeah, Damien's certainly got it!
Cracking 'box playing!!!
Amazing
That Bodhran player is fantastic!
Agree with comment likening box playing to that of Joe Burke. It's very, very good. Utterly crisp and yet inventive too.
tanks!!!!
How old was Damien back then?
Looked like barely 18.
And already a seasoned pro 😎
@SkyDK1 Seamus O´Kane; great bodhran maker!
Would like to know the actual name of these tunes. Awesome !
which makes it a button accordion. melodeons (in an irish music sense, note) tend to have just 10 keys
great playing but the accordion and bodhran are drowning out Frankie's fiddle
Yea, can't hear the fiddle at all! Not like Frankie to stand for that!!
Yeah, got the same impression. Accordion and fiddle can sound good together when playing different parties for example when accompanying a song (good example I heard is "Irish Battallion" sung by David Kincaid with Liz Knowles on the fiddle and John Whelan on the accordion - both instruments can well be heard, creating a beautiful layered polyphony), but when just playing a dance tune together the result is often is mutual redundancy, just making it harder to hear the nuances of each instrument.
does anyboy know the names of the tunes!!i know shaskeen but what are the other 2??
The Shaskeen Reel / The Honeymoon Reel / Maud Millar
What kind of bohdran does he have????
Have they got the Tea Boy on the Sound Desk or something? Whoever it is doing the sound, he needs to be given his jotters; you can't hear the fiddle at all!
Kick ass! Would have rather heard Alec Finn backing than the piano but Hession rocks anyway.
The Shaskeen and The Honeymoon Reel
2019?
cant hear the fiddle lad
Honeymoon Reel
Great stuff, although the accordion overpowers all the other instruments.
No fiddle !!
I heard the low sound on the fiddle.
Can't hear the fiddle at all
Sneaky tuning!!!;osavage playin though!!!
Actually, it's not an accordian, it's a melodeon, which has buttons rather that keyboard
A melodeon has a single row...thats an accordion
Yeah, Damien's certainly got it!