#Irish fiddle

[thatnerdyqueer]

MY FUCKING GOD if I find ONE MORE spotify playlist that says 'trad folk' or 'jigs and reels' or 'fiddle tunes' and then ITS JUST POP MUSIC GIRLIES SINGING ABOUT MOLLY MALONE IM GOING TO THROW HANDS

like dont get me wrong, love me some folk song arrangements or even modern takes on the style, but when you're looking for fiddle music and spotify JUST hands you pop music????????

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HELP

[obscene-beans]

used to be one of my favorites but I played it so much that I started to hate it

I listened to it on my writing playlist and finally got to fully appreciate it again

[cvsette]

Oh December? You mean Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) by The Pogues Month?

[notbecauseofvictories]

My best friend and I had a call recently---she’s back with her family for a bit helping out with some hometown stuff. As part of the stuff, she’s been going through a (deceased) relative’s scrapbook, compiled in the American Midwest circa 1870-1900 and featuring mostly cut-out figures from the ads of the day.

She talked about how painstaking this relative’s work was. (Apparently the relative was careful to cut out every finger, every cowlick; this was by no means carelessly or hastily assembled.) But she also she talked about how---the baby on the baking soda ad is ugly, it is so ugly, why anyone would clip this heinously ugly illustrated baby and paste it into a scrapbook? Why would you save the (terribly told, boring) ghost story that came with your box of soap?

(Why include these things in the first place? we asked each other. ”There’s a kind of anti-capitalism to it,” she mused.)

And we discussed that for a bit---how most of the images, stories, artists, and ads were local, not national; they’re pulled from [Midwestern state] companies’ advertisements in [Midwestern state] papers, magazines, and products. As a consequence, you’re not looking at Leyendecker or Norman Rockwell illustrations, but Johann Spatz-Smith from down the road, who took a drawing class at college.

(College is the state college, and he came home on weekends and in the summer to help with the farm or earn some money at the plant.)

But it also inspired a really interesting conversation about how---we have access to so much more art, better and more professional art, than any time in history. As my bff said, all you have to do to find a great, technically proficient and lovely representational image of a baby, is to google the right keywords. But for a girl living in rural [Midwestern state] of the late 1800s, it was the baking soda ad, or literal actual babies. There was no in-between, no heading out to the nearby art museum to study oil paintings of mother and child, no studying photographs and film---such new technologies hadn’t diffused to local newspapers and circulars yet, and were far beyond the average person’s means. But cheap, semi-amateur artists? Those were definitely around, scattered between towns and nearby smallish cities.

It was a good conversation, and made me think about a couple things---the weird entitlement that “professional” and expensive art instills in viewers, how it artificially depresses the appetite for messy unprofessional art, including your own; the way that this makes your tastes narrower, less interesting, less open.

By that I mean---maybe the baby isn’t ugly! Maybe you’ve just seen too many photorealistic babies. Maybe you haven’t really stopped to contemplate that your drawing of a baby (however crude, ugly, or limited) is the best drawing of a baby you can make, and the act of drawing that lumpen, ugly baby is more sacred and profoundly human than even looking at a Mary Cassatt painting.

And even if that isn’t the case....there was this girl in [American Midwestern state] for whom it was very, very important that she capture every finger, curl, and bit of shading for that ugly soap ad baby. And some one hundred years later, her great-something-or-other took pains to preserve her work---because how terribly human it is, to seek out all the art we can find that resonates with us, preserve it, adore it.

It might be the most human impulse we have.

[str1wberry7thyme]

I spent way too much time thinking about what Countries Dungeon Meshi Characters would be from if they were #real after finding out the Marcille would unfortunately be Italian so I made a list that’s is 100% correct and accurate:

Laois & Falin Touden - Norwegian and Scottish

Marcille - Lesbian

Senshi - Denmark (Hates Danes)

Chilchuck Tims - Ireland (Galway girl specifically)

Kabru - Türkiye (but lived in France with his adoptive mother)

Izutsumi - Mongolia

Thistle - England (originally from the Isle of Man)

Shuro - Japan

Namari - Germany

Hope this helps!!!

[here-am-i-sitting-in-a-tin-can]

*galway girl plays*

*crying* SHUT UP

[domhnallgleesonhaven]

He’s just too adorable! 🥰

[deltakig]

The Maids of Mitchelstown

[izzy140105]

Every time I remember that Ed Sheeran is in Game of Thrones... A little part of me dies on the inside...

[megabrianhibbertuniverse]

Romantic Irish Fiddle.

Music for Film, TV, Radio and Online Media.

Website        http://otsm.co.uk/

Audition/Download  44.1kHz Wave       https://soundcloud.com/otsm/albums/

Show Reels  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PrmouvkeJo

Info               https://news.prsformusic.com/1V6T-6JEA2-F8CDKXQF1A/cr.aspx

[woodelf68]

Fergal's Tune A Day - Day 1 - Stoney Steps

[scenicworlds]

June 9, 2024

Tunes at Night Mares. Portland, ME.

[theodoresgf]

happy st patrick’s day to my favorite irishmen ୨ৎ

[shadesofmauve]

Reels, testing my thumb's tolerance for bow triplets a bit more. And apparently my memory's tolerance for the A part of "Pigeon on a Gate", which I managed to play fine the first time before it decided it wanted to morph into a different tune at that phrase.

...which basically means this is just like watching a live show, where I also frequently have a tune escape me mid-medley and have to wildly try and improv my way back to whatever the hell it was that I just played fine 30 seconds ago. So there's that, I guess.

Oh well. I didn't actually intend to record that one, anyway. It just came out.

[hella1975]

believe it or not i actually wasn’t that drunk last night i was just running off pure vibes bc it turns out a night out in dublin despite bleeding your bank account dry despite tipping it down with rain WILL be the most amazing thing you’ve ever experienced