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Seo Linn (Irish pronunciation: [ʃɔ ˈlʲɪn̠ʲ]; "here we go" [1]) is an Irish folk/indie group formed in Ireland that has been making music and performing since 2013. [2] The group consists of Stiofán Ó Fearail on vocals and guitar, Daithí Ó Ruaidh on vocals, keyboard, and saxophone, Keith Ó Briain on vocals, bass guitar, mandolin, and ...
The Irish bouzouki, though not strictly a member of the mandolin family, has a reasonable resemblance and similar range to the octave mandolin. It derives from the Greek bouzouki (a long-necked lute), constructed like a flat-backed mandolin and uses fifth-based tunings, most often G 2 –D 3 –A 3 –D 4 .
[4] [3] As the sisters continued to compete in Irish dance championships, [11] they travelled throughout the United States to many fairs and Celtic festivals. [ 4 ] [ 12 ] They polished their performances by learning to play various other instruments, such as the guitar, electric guitar, bodhrán, mandolin, cajón and the pennywhistle, while ...
Paul Kelly (born 1957) is an Irish multi-instrumentalist and musician from Tallaght in Dublin, Ireland. He has played Irish traditional music, bluegrass and country, and is equally at home in a variety of different styles of music.
He plays whistles, banjo, mandolin, harmonica and the Irish bagpipe, the "Uilleann Pipes". As a solo musician Larry Mathews is touring Europe, Canada and the US with fiddle, guitar and Bodhrán . In 2012 [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] and 2013 [ 13 ] Mathews was one of two musicians accompanying Achim Reichel on his Solo mit Euch ( Solo with You ) Tour ...
See Irish mandolinists. The mandolin has become a more common instrument amongst Irish traditional musicians. Fiddle tunes are readily accessible to the mandolin player because of the equivalent tuning and range of the two instruments, and the practically identical (allowing for the lack of frets on the fiddle) left-hand fingerings.
The Irish bouzouki is a very similar instrument, and is often confused with the octave mandolin, but an Irish Bouzouki has a longer scale length and a different tuning than the octave mandolin. Also, octave mandola is sometimes applied to what in the U.S. is a mandocello .
Andrew Kennedy Irvine (born 14 June 1942), known professionally as Andy Irvine, is an Irish folk musician, singer-songwriter, and a founding member of Sweeney's Men, Planxty, Patrick Street, Mozaik, LAPD and Usher's Island.