The History of the Bodhran 1973-1982.AVI
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- Some old black/white and colour clips. It starts with a clip of Galway bodhran maker Mike Vignoles talking about the making of the bodhrans in gaelic and then a music compilation taking from shows such as Fleadh Cheoil, Come West along the Road, Sessions of the 70s and early 1970s Late Late Show broadcasts. My favourite is the Mary Bergin and Johnny Ringo McDonagh contribution from 1982 I think. But Ringo, Paeder mercier, Christy Moore, Marcus Walsh (From Quilty, County Clare) and Seamus Donaghue with his dad Jim show us how to bang the bodhran effortlessly. Pat Power with some musicians and some puppets at the Listowel Fleadh Cheoil Enjoy. Just to be clear this is not a documentary about the bodhran but a collection of archival clips and it does not follow chronologically like the years stated.
1. This is actually from about 2004 - 05 about Michael Vignoles talking about the bodhran making process in gaeilge, the music featured is Brian ORourke singing his song When I grow up I want to be a bodhran and the bodhran playing is from my good friend Nick Power.
2. Nicks brother Pat is featured in the next clip taken at one of the Listowel Fleadh Cheoils with some musicians and some of Pats puppets.
3. Jim and Seamus Donaghue from the Roscommon/Sligo border area although Im not too sure (Sourced from an older programme from 1973 this was rebroadcast on Come West Along the Road.)
4. Packie Russell and Marcus Walsh (Tangents 1973: Rebroadcast on Come West Along the Road.)
5. The Chieftains (Possibly 1972) The Morning Dew Set - Late Late Show Rebroadcast.)
6. Planxty 1974 - Jigs ( Johnny Monynihan and Paul Brady replacing Donal Lunny) from the Sessions of the 70s series I think, for BBC Northern Ireland.
7. De Danann at the Embankment 1976 - two sets and with Johnny Monynihan too. (Rebroadcast on Come West Along the Road.)
8.Mary Bergin and Johnny Ringo McDonagh - Air and reels 1982 (Rebroadcast on Come West...) I know its a bit of a jump from 1976 to 1982. But at the time I originally had a comp than ran to three hours on a vhs tape, so this is only a sample of it that made it on to dvd and my pc. Enjoy.
Thinking of my first bodhran made by Ted Furey. The rim started life as the rim of a garden sieve. He took off the screen and put on a skin. Hanger wire did for crossbars. He charged all of two pounds for it in 1963. Crude though it was it had a nice sound particularly when played with the hand and lasted me 28 years.
Morning Dew - just wow. Brings back a few memories. Peader mercier on Bodhran and bones. blissful
Ich habe mir genau an meinem Geburtstag meine Trommel bei Michael gekauft. Seine Trommeln haben seine Seele...er ist ein sehr warmherziger, bescheidener Mensch...Danke, Michael!
#Kerry Happ: When John B. Keane's play, 'Sive', first arrived in Dublin in 1959 almost nobody there, apart from some obscure folk musicians, had ever seen or heard a bodhrán. I am 76 and I remember seeing the play with my late mother in Dun Laoghaire about 12 years later. There I saw a bodhrán being used like the bell of an English town crier. There was a tramp who would come on stage from time to time. He would belt the bodhrán to get our attention before telling us how things were going with the young girl, Sive, and the old man who had 'bought' her via a matchmaker. That rural play introduced County Kerry and its people and its bodhrán and its unique John B. Keane to the posh people of Dublin 4 who would never be seen dead with the likes of folk music players.
Even in Clare the Bodhrán was never part of a session when I was a kid(goat)..The first time I saw it played was also in the Sive play in our local hall around the same year...Seán O Riada can be credited with bringing it to a wider audience and after that The Chieftains..Good musicians are fussy about letting people they don't know play a Bodhrán with them...I don't blame them because a person that can't play an instrument or sing a ballad "think" they can play a Bodhrán...
How can you NOT like Traditional Irish Music....so lovely..
At about 9:00 notice Marcus Walsh playing with his index finger as a beater. That is how I play to this day.
12:45...this is the Magic of the Bodhrán. I like it and play it with the same Intension...not only Jiggs´n Reels
I prefer tp just allow my bodhran to have its voice. There are some great modern complex beat bodhran players but to try and compete would go against the grain of my spirits attempt to learn. 🙏🥀
The Chieftains-clip was recorded in 1974. Derek Bell had just joined the band full time.
Great overview. Thank you for posting this. Love it.
Thanks a lot for posting!
Very interesting!
Seamus, the poor bugger, looks like he's doin the Thorazine Shuffle!
Hi I dont know the first one at the moment, but the second tune Jim Donoghue is playing is (Joe) Cooleys reel. My mate played the first reel last night at Cholis so will get back to ya on the first reel.
Really enjoyed your take on the bodhrán. Great!
On no. 7 (22:58) do you know the name of the last reel that De Danann played or on which edition of Come West Along the Road it appeared?
Play with the hand since I was seven and wouldn't have it any other way.... :-)
It was Johnny Ringo Mc Donagh alone who brought bodhran playing up from the stone age.
Breda Smyth is lovely whistle player!
Interesting to hear the older trad sounds ...nice high bodhran and a good whistler who does not force the octaves all over the place. Note by comparison the metallic sound of th later group . Mary Bergin embodies the older atttudes.
Fantastico...
Planxty without Donal Lunny? I know its a vid about bodhrans but Christy Moore's was way too loud in the mix!
As is Mary Bergin :-)
Indeed she is.
what's that double sided bodhran at 11:30?
6:10 lets go before they ask us for fricken money!
Seamus Ennis said that there was only one way to play the bodhran. He was not keen on it
“The best way to play a bodhran is with an open penknife!”
Seamus Ennis.
5:40 I've played with some real dummies, too.
Jasus sheamus looks like hes seen better days..
6:47 someone's clearly had a lobotomy
+matthew shepherd LMAO!!!
lol - - Sham is playing northern style on the Bodhran. 15 years before it 'took off'
imranhere2 but does the Northern style include that face though
Modern bodhran playing is awful. They make the drum sound like their hitting a plank of wood
Yea, very not well thought out, just flash