YouTube Music
List of Artists/Tunes
- Dark Island - Scottish
- Noel Battle - Irish
- Austin Berry - Irish
- Christelle Berthon - Irish
- Donald Black - Scottish
- George Current - Scottish
- James Conway - Scottish/Irish
- Ernie Gordon - English
- Bryce Johnstone - Scottish
- Mick Kinsella - Irish
- Paul Lassey - Irish
- Will Pound - English
- Brendan Power - Irish
- Unknown - Irish
- Eddie Upton - English
- Steve Shaw - Irish
- Mat Walklate - Irish
Dark Island
Dark Island - by Mike Currie
Mike plays my favourite tune at the Atlantic Canada Harmonica Festival. For full size YouTube version click here.
Dark Island - by Bill Torrance
Bill plays a highly embellished version of the Dark Island accompanied by Piano Accordion and Drums. For full size YouTube version click here.
Dark Island - by Melvyn Roberts
Melvyn plays Dark Island in Donald Black style (from Keil Road). For full size YouTube version click here.
Noel Battle
Noel Battle
Noel, from Mullingar, playing a tremolo with Joe meehan on guitar is the 12 times all Ireland harmonica player. For full size YouTube version click here.
Noel Battle
Noel Battle plays Leitrim jigs and St Annes reels with Orla and Sarah Ward from Co Leitrim, the tunes are hundreds of years old. For full size YouTube version click here.
Noel Battle
Noel plays in a Mullingar harmonica convention. For full size YouTube version click here.
Austin Berry
Austin Berry Part 1
Here we have Eighty years young Austin Berry, from Athlone Co Westmeath, Ireland, playing a selection of jigs. Austin is an Irish Harmonica Champion. For full size YouTube version click here.
Austin Berry Part 2
Here we have Eighty years young Austin Berry, from Athlone Co Westmeath, Ireland, playing a selection of jigs. Austin is an Irish Harmonica Champion. For full size YouTube version click here.
Austin Berry Part 3
Here we have Eighty years young Austin Berry, from Athlone Co Westmeath, Ireland, playing a waltz of his own composition. Austin is an Irish Harmonica Champion. For full size YouTube version click here.
Christelle Berthon
Christelle Berthon
French harmonica player Christelle Berthon plays a Glasgow theme on diatonic from the Love Actually movie soundtrack. For full size YouTube version click here.
Christelle Berthon
French harmonica player Christelle Berthon plays The Sailor and The Maid on diatonic. For full size YouTube version click here.
Donald Black
Donald Black
Donald Black, accompanied by Donnie MacKenzie, played some airs on a diatonic harmonica during his set of Scottish music at the National Harmonica League (NHL) H2007 concert and this one is called Don Chuthaig (The Cuckoo). It is on his new CD Keil Road. He usually plays tremolo moothie. For full size YouTube version click here.
Donald Black
Donald Black, accompanied by Donnie MacKenzie, plays a set of jigs titled "Harper on the Harp" (Harp being an informal name for harmonica) on tremolo harmonica, but uses a 10 hole diatonic for one of the tunes, at the National Harmonica League (NHL) H2007 concert. The jigs are "The Garden of Skye", "Dorothy Leur's Jig", "The Night at Glenzier" and "Walking on the Moon" and are all written by the late Scottish musician/dance-band leader Addie Harper from Wick. For full size YouTube version click here.
Donald Black at Musikmesse 2007
Donald accompanied by Donnie MacKenzie. For full size YouTube version click here.
James Conway
James Conway plays Tremolo Set
James Conway plays a Tremolo set of Cooley's/Sean Sa Ceoe on a Seydel 12-hole Fanfare Tremolo in the key of D with "Solo Tuning", the same as for Chromatic harmonicas. For full size YouTube version click here.
James Conway
James plays Irish Reels. For full size YouTube version click here.
Bagpipe Harmonica from James Conway
James emulates bagpipe music on harmonica and accompanies himself on Bodhran. For full size YouTube version click here.
Ernie Gordon and Eddie Upton
Ernie Gordon
Ernie had been working on this "tour de force" for months before the 2003 festival and he played it for Ben Hewlett in the cafeteria of the Folk House in Bristol during the National Harmonica League Festival in H2003. It might be the first time that Carnival in Venice has been performed on a tremolo harmonica in this arrangement, which is popular with brass players. Ernie had learned the variations from trumpet player Harry James and he incorporated the triple tonguing techniques Harry had used. Ernie is one of the leading tremolo players from Northumberland in England and he has a CD "The Geordie Jock". He was a friend of the famous tremolo player, Will Atkinson. For full size YouTube version click here.
Ernie Gordon
Ernie at the NHL 2004 Festival plays a set of "Bird" tunes including the Lark in the Clear Air. For full size YouTube version click here.
Eddie Upton
Eddie Upton is a Director of Folk South West, in England, UK. In this rare solo performance he plays some traditional English folk melodies on the tremolo harmonica during the NHL H2008 festival concert. For full size YouTube version click here.
Bryce Johnstone and George Current
Bryce Johnstone
Bryce had planned to come down from Scotland with Ian Grant but Ian died a few weeks before the festival, Bryce invited Ernie Gordon and Brendan Power to play a tribute to Ian at the National Harmonica League festival at the Bristol Folk House. For full size YouTube version click here.
George Current
George Current is a part of the long tradition of moothie players in Scotland. He taught at the ALP Scots Music Group Moothie Class, and is a part of the Scots Moothie Group which plays every two weeks at Sandy Bell's pub in Edinburgh. He plays two waltzes, Kate Martin and Maggie West, and then the music from Para Handy and a piece by Jimmy Blue, Balintore Fisherman. For full size YouTube version click here.
Mick Kinsella
Mick Kinsella
Mick Kinsella performed this instrumental version of Rory McLeod's "Take me Home" as part of his contribution to the H2010 concert in the Folk House in Bristol. For full size YouTube version click here.
Mick Kinsella
Mick and Rick Epping in Tutty's bar Hollywood. For full size YouTube version click here.
Mick Kinsella and Josephine Marsh
Mick Kinsella and Josephine Marsh play great music. For full size YouTube version click here.
Paul Lassey
Paul Lassey
French Harmonicist, Paul plays Ballydesmond Polkas on chromatic harp. For full size YouTube version click here.
Paul Lassey
French Harmonicist, Paul plays The Blarney Pilgrim on Suxuki SCX56 chromatic harp. For full size YouTube version click here.
Paul Lassey
French Harmonicist, Paul plays Coleraine's Jig | Irish Washerwoman | Banshee on chromatic harp. For full size YouTube version click here.
Paul Lassey
French Harmonicist, Paul plays Caledonia Laddie on chromatic harp. For full size YouTube version click here.
Will Pound
Will Pound
Harp player, Will Pound and banjo player Dan Walsh played a great set at the National Harmonica League festival, October 2009, in the Folk House at Bristol, UK. This duo play a wide range of material in their own way - bluegrass to English Folk Dance tunes. This solo by Will is based on French Canadian and Cape Breton music. A great live band with a unique style! For full size YouTube version click here.
Will Pound on Harmonica and Eddy Jay on Accordion
Will plays the Red Haired Boy. For full size YouTube version click here.
Will Pound on Harmonica and Eddy Jay on Accordion
Will Plays a Scottish Reelset, The Road to Errogone | Trip to Avindsol. For full size YouTube version click here.
Brendan Power
Brendan Power
Brendan plays a varied Irish medley set of The Drunken Landlady (Em), The Wind that Shakes the Barley (D) and John Stenson's #2 (A) at the National Harmonica League, H2009 festival. For full size YouTube version click here.
Brendan Power
Brendan on harmonica, Tim Edey on guitar, Laura Targett on fiddle and Greg Sheehan, percussion playing fast and furious at a concert in Canterbury Steiner school, UK in 2008. For full size YouTube version click here.
Brendan Power
Richard Sleigh recorded this session at SPAH 2009. The songs in order of appearance are: Si Bheag Si Mhor, Connaughtman's Rambles, My Darlin Asleep, The Kesh Jig. For full size YouTube version click here.
Brendan Power
Brendan playing The Drunken Landlady | The Wind That Shakes the Barley | John Stenson's No 2 on a, retuned for Irish music, prototype of a new Suzuki Fabulous chromatic harmonica. For full size YouTube version click here.
Brendan Power
Brendan playing Three Irish tunes accompanied by Lucy Randall. For full size YouTube version click here.
Brendan Power
Brendan playing Irish Medley Harp Solo with Eddy Jay, the tunes are John Conroys Jig and Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself. For full size YouTube version click here.
Brendan Power
Brendan Playing The Coolin. For full size YouTube version click here.
Brendan Power
Brendan Playing The Mountain Road | The Corkscrew accompanied by Lucy Randall. For full size YouTube version click here.
Brendan Power
Brendan, playing Lorraine's Dream accompanied by Tom Gullionon on flute and Vijay Tellis-Nayak on keyboard from his CD Lament for the 21st Century, which is available from both Brendan and CANDyRAT Records. For full size YouTube version click here.
Brendan Power
Brendan and Andrew White preview their tune Greenstone Waters from their CD. For full size YouTube version click here.
Mick Kinsella and Brendan Power
Mick Kinsella was joined by his friend Brendan Power for a medley of Irish music at the end of his set in the H2010, National Harmonica League, concert in the Folk House, Bristol, UK. For full size YouTube version click here.
Unknown
Unknown Artist
Unknown artist plays the Star of County Down on 10-hole diatonic with great feeling. For full size YouTube version click here.
Mat Walklate
Mat Walklate
Mat plays a two reel set, the Connachtman's Rambles and Tatter Jack Walsh, on diatonic. For full size YouTube version click here.
