Irish music origins

Subject: RE: Irish music origins
From: InOBU
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 05:11 PM

PS... As far as where our instruments came from, our band, Sorcha Dorcha has fiddles, bombards, Uilleann pipes, warpipes, oboe, bodhran, mandolin, cittern, bazoki, guitar, flute, whistle, hurdy gurdy, and I know I am leaving stuff out, try to work out where all our stuff comes from! Our name comes from the patron saint of Pavees, who comes to us from India - Sorcha Dorcha is decended from Ganesh and Shiva - came to Ireland as Kali Maria (Black Mary) from Roma (Gypsies) once from India.
Lor

Subject: RE: Irish music origins
From: InOBU
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 05:08 PM

Johnny, a mhic (or wac if one is in Connimara):
You forgot to say we came from all those places as well... as we did not, as the old songs say, spring from Irish soil...
Another proud Irish musician, whoes Geordie ancestors wandered into the place hundreds of years after we sailed out of Denmark, screwed around in France, and generally befouled - plilaged - and ran amok through out the world until we stumbled into Ireland...
In short...
Is mise le meas
Lor

Subject: RE: Irish music origins
From: Susan-Marie
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 04:47 PM

You need a singer Johnny, it's my impression that the bards of Ireland had (have) one of the strongest oral traditions in Europe.

(just a little prejudiced because I'm a singer)

Subject: Irish music origins
From: GUEST,Johnny O'Brien
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 02:50 PM

I play in a traditional Irish band that includes guitar, tenor banjo, fiddle, bouzouki and bohdran.

The guitar developed in Spain, the banjo in Africa, the fiddle in Italy, and the bouzouki in Greece. As a drum, the bohdran is also descended from Africa.

Of course, that means that traditional Irish music could not have developed as we know it but for the contributions of the Spanish, Africans, Italians and Greeks.

Johnny O'Brien

A proud Irish musician