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Thread #119096 Message #2580161
Posted By: Jack Campin
03-Mar-09 - 08:05 AM
Thread Name: breakneck speed and Irish Music
Subject: RE: breakneck speed and Irish Music
Maybe Irish music just isn't all that suited to session playing?
One of the most amazing fiddle performances I've ever heard was from the late Glasgow Irish fiddler Jimmy McHugh, late at night after a folk festival when almost everybody had gone home. Playing solo, not very fast, with fantastic expressiveness and gorgeous ornamentation thought out to emphasise every turn of each individual melody. I've never heard that sort of playing in a massed Irish session and I don't think it's possible.