DE DANANN-TWO JEWISH REELS-THE LATE LATE SHOW-RTE-1999

De Danann perform 'Two Jewish Reels'.Sorry I don't have an exact date for this.

[@ConorMacProductions]

This was filmed in 1987. The first tune is called "A Shepard's Dream" and the second is called "Ongo Bucharesti."

[@daveforristal7861]

Captivates me now as it did 20 years ago

[@kathleenseret6727]

and a present for everyone in the audience! ❤️

[@mcfrdmn]

Excellent musical performance !

[@joseacerro]

Those are really "gypsy reels", more commonly known as "horas". I can't remember the name of the first one, but the second theme is called "Onga București" (Bucharest Dance). Very nice irish-style performance, btw.

[@ahoghill54]

I wish they'd pre-recorded when I was on there in the late 70s with the Corrymeela Singers. The producer told us which song he wanted us to perform. It started with an unaccompanied solo vocal. The singer didn't hear the note she was given, started singing in the wrong key and couldn't get back to the right key. She was mortified!

[@terrylingwood]

This was the 'Late Late Show' in the nineties. Neither they, nor De Dannan needed to pre record, you're probasbly confused with the slight delay due to watching online

[@giuseppeartusi1054]

Definitely filmed on 1987, as conductor says: "from upcoming album called Ballroom", published in that year.

[@johnfkarr]

De Danann were touring with Caroline Lavalle on cello around 1991

[@boxcoffey]

She played with the above lineup in the mid-80s (up to 87 when they disbanded). She returned in 1991 to play with a newer lineup and did a USA tour (September 91) and also did an Australian tour (Sept 1992); and a few concerts here and there in between.

[@radharcanna]

They all seemed to be very attentive to how she played!

[@yankeedrummer21]

this was on the album Ballroom in 1987

[@raymonddixon5162]

jeez are you for reel. Completely live!!!!!

[@JustFiddler]

love it. salam dari pulau bali

[@fh041205]

Of course, why else would I say it, I worship these guys! Have you listened to the album recording even?

[@thomaswalsh8219]

Saw them play this live once with Noel Hill on the concertina....Those boys sure now how knock out an impressive noise

[@FrankKolarekJr]

This is my favorite Johnny McDonagh era...

[@MrLezpye]

The girl in the frock, as opposed to any other girl not in a frock, is having a absolute blast

[@evlin10]

unreal.

[@fh041205]

They were defo good enough but the late late show do actually pre-record (and sometimes just use album audio) for bands they have on. And this recording is identical to the album one.

[@ShikataGaNai100]

Makes me happy to know that my name is Kenneth Joseph John Connor...but, alas, I am also half Italian. :-)

[@daragildea7434]

I'm half Italian/half Irish as well, my name's Felatio Cunnilingus.

[@thomasszejnmann3917]

These tunes really sound a bit like klezmer or balkan dance music, but definitely irish - this is really what can be called a fusion. Anybody knows where they really come from ?

[@lloydwolf1]

They learned the music from the great klezmer player, Andy Statman.

[@74bomayemcfc]

The best pairing they had was gavin/o'connor..recording dates from 1987...

[@seanearnest]

MrQuentinCowper Well it's a good thing his bouzouki playing is first rate!

[@MrQuentinCowper]

What a cool looking bodhran, it looks like a biscuit!

[@werty647]

Two good mervue lads

[@cyndifallon1484]

I love these, anyone know the names? I'll never be able to play them this fast but would love to learn these tunes.

[@JustFiddler]

i have no idea

[@yankeedrummer21]

Gavin wearing boots Gary Glitter would be proud of

[@BLOLite]

Irish klezmer,works great!

[@fh041205]

This is a recording being played over them. They're not actually playing what we;re hearing.

[@PJP812]

Brilliant but definitely not 1999 - mid to late 80`s id say

[@Hare_deLune]

Judging by the youthful appearance of the musicians, and the stage decorations; I'd say this would have to be from the mid-1970's. Probably 1976 or '77. Just a guess, though...

[@jackshenhouse]

1987. This was on their album 'Ballroom', which came out that year, the host at the end refers to the 'upcoming' album.

[@Pamfreyhead]

definitely not 1999

[@carmensierra3935]

Pamfreyhead 1979

[@dbadagna]

@@carmensierra3935 Maybe the uploader will eventually correct the video title.

[@raymonddixon5162]

finn is wearing the dodgy boots!!!

[@WilliamsGail1]

Great tight playing - by Frankie & Martin! Not much for a bouzouki to to here, imho. Nice performance all round.

[@juanitodelacruz100]

No guitar, thanks be to God. Why argue the origins of music? It's a wise person who knows where their ancestors were living 500 years ago.

[@bassplayinggoalie]

This is an Irish group playing two Jewish reels in a modern style (at the time) with string accompaniment from a Greek bouzouki. Bouzouki was only introduced to Irish music two decades before this was shot. Why would a guitar start an argument?

[@nedohamilli]

Impressive noise,,,,,,,, "

[@MacEoin]

In what sense are they 'Jewish'? There are echoes of Klesmer music, can that be it? There aren't too many Jewish musical styles.

[@mikegoldberg5261]

More than echoes to me, I thought they definitely delivered on the title.

[@rhapsag]

These tunes were learned from Klezmer musician Andy Statman, with whom De Danann did a tour of America. Statman got them from the repertoire of clarinettist Dave Tarras, who was from Bessarabia (present day Moldova). Although Tarras is regarded as one of the leading lights of Klezmer music of th 20th Century, he also had an interest in the non-Jewish music of S.E. Europe (Ukraine, Bessarabia, Romania, Greece) incorporating that into his repertoire and composing his own tunes in those styles. These tunes sound somewhat more Romanian to me than specifically Jewish - I am not sure whether or not they are Tarras' own compositions.

[@bernadetteparnell9500]

Irish (Celtic) music has been "World Music" long before the notion was marketed. The tonalities and rhytms of "diiddly idle" has connections and resonances in Hasid music, Oriental tones and themes from the Indian subcontinent. All reaching across and beyond the more staid European classical tradition and usually predating the more sedate Western developments. We have a lot to be proud of, and so many links to far away places. All that, without taking away a whit from the proud and important niche role of the Irish Jews in Irish culture and society. .

[@dbadagna]

@@rhapsag Joel E. Rubin provides the following correction: ====== That comment is basically correct about Dave Tarras, except he was not from Bessarabia (Moldova). He came from Ternivka, SW of Uman' in Ukraine, but spent a bit of time (some weeks or possibly months) in Edineţ in NW Moldova on his way to the US ca. 1920-21.

[@rhapsag]

Thank you for the correction.

[@wqpeb]

Pray ...who is the cellist?

[@edelahaye]

+wqpeb She is Caroline Lavelle. I saw her live on stage with de Dannan in Paris at the Theâtre de la Ville, she was absolutely brilliant ! (And the lads too, of course).

[@johnfkarr]

Caroline Lavalle

[@JustFiddler]

@@edelahaye thank you

[@Melvorgazh]

Jewish reels? Are the really Jewish?

[@MrQuentinCowper]

The foot-tapping from the bouzouki player is very second rate.....