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27 Oct 19 - 04:06 PM (#4015724) Subject: Seamus Ennis's 100th From: Jim Carroll Just listened to an hour of wonderful traditional music on Lyric FM - a tribute to Seamus Ennis on his 100th Anniversary by a friend, J.J. O'Shea, a fine documentary maker based in Kerry It concentrated mainly on his work as collector in Scotland and Ireland, with some wonderful clips of Waulking Songs and Mouth Music It should be available for listening next week on Lyric's website Jim Carroll |
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27 Oct 19 - 04:15 PM (#4015726) Subject: RE: Seamus Ennis's 100th From: GUEST,Peter Laban It's there now: Gathering the Harvest ; Lyric feature |
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28 Oct 19 - 05:05 AM (#4015772) Subject: RE: Seamus Ennis's 100th From: Jim Carroll Thanks Peter I can't get it to play but that may be my equipment I'm going to contact J.J. later and see if there are any plans for a repeat - Lyric often do Jim |
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28 Oct 19 - 05:18 AM (#4015776) Subject: RE: Seamus Ennis's 100th From: GUEST,Peter Laban You're welcome Jim. It works fine for me, in fact I am in the middle of a second listening as I write. |
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28 Oct 19 - 06:40 AM (#4015791) Subject: RE: Seamus Ennis's 100th From: Jim Carroll Good innit ? Jim |
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28 Oct 19 - 07:36 AM (#4015800) Subject: RE: Seamus Ennis's 100th From: Jim Carroll Found the problem Peter - my ad blockers won't allow it to play Jim |
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28 Oct 19 - 07:49 AM (#4015801) Subject: RE: Seamus Ennis's 100th From: GUEST,Peter Laban I had to give permission to open the pop up but other than that it went OK and I block just about everything. Hard to tell with these things. |
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28 Oct 19 - 12:25 PM (#4015846) Subject: RE: Seamus Ennis's 100th From: Vic Smith Utterly fascinating well produced programme. The stories of him staying with people in England when he was on tour brought back memories of his staying with us in Brighton during the two tours that we organised for him in the early 1970s. In addition to collecting in Ireland and Scotland, he also did collecting in England whilst he worked with the BBC when he worked for them in the 1950s usually working alongside Bob Copper. He certainly made some recordings of the Copper Family. The only thing thing the programme lacked was some examples of his wonderful speaking voice. |
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28 Oct 19 - 12:41 PM (#4015852) Subject: RE: Seamus Ennis's 100th From: Jim Carroll "The only thing thing the programme lacked was some examples of his wonderful speaking voice." I missed that too Jim |
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28 Oct 19 - 01:11 PM (#4015869) Subject: RE: Seamus Ennis's 100th From: GUEST,Peter Laban This wasn't exactly the first programme dedicated to Séamus' centenary and between the others and the many before that, from the 'Séamus Ennis story' Peter Browne produced during the mid eighties, archive recordings of himself speaking about his work have been exhaustively used and then used again. And while I agree it's a shame he wasn't heard himself, it was nice to have this outing delve into some aspects of his work that haven't been raked over as much rather than going over paths well trodden. The samples of his recording work in the Hebrides were outstanding and added greatly to the enjoyment, as far as I am concerned anyway. |
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28 Oct 19 - 01:30 PM (#4015870) Subject: RE: Seamus Ennis's 100th From: Jim Carroll Lovely story about that Pater Ennis became a fluent Scots Gaelic speaker on his trips to the Hebrides, so when he and Lomax went together he acted as interpreter The women doing the waullking were crazy out these two hansom young men and on Barra, they began to improvise a song about the hansom American with his fine hair, manly chin, broad shoulders, strong chest - right down to his big willie Ennis knew what wa happening and said nothing and they sent the recording back to London where it was eventually played on air The BBC received hundreds of complaints from irate Gaelic speakers about the "dirty song" (which I believe, is still in the BBC archive) Jim |
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28 Oct 19 - 02:32 PM (#4015880) Subject: RE: Folklore: Seamus Ennis's 100th From: Vic Smith Jim - That was one of many hilarious stories that Seamus told us when he was staying with us. I don't think that Tina was so happy with him one Sunday lunchtime. She has cooked a lovely roast dinner for all of us. He sat down at the table and asked for some boiling water and a bowl. He mixed the hot water with some Complan and Bovril, both of which he produced from a bag, and never touched the meal! |