The Bothy Band 1977 The Laurel Tree

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[@carleneroberts7559]

Still the best flute player on Gods earth !!! Way to go MATT MOLLOY !!!!

[@MrTheLuckyshot]

Right up there, for sure.

[@franksabatino7576]

This is a great example of the range of the Bothy Band's instrumental sound. The three lead instruments play separately, each with rich accompaniment by one of the three backing instruments. Then the full band brings the piece to a powerful conclusion, complex and layered. To be dazzled by their vocal prowess, I suggest listening to Fionnghuala.

[@radharcanna]

Not having seen them live in the 70s, I saw them play in Belfast last February and they were still fantastic. Sad that Mícheál and Tommy were missing. I’m going to see them again in Dublin in August!

[@paddy2411]

I've discovered the music of Bothy Band when I was about seventeen, with my father who was a great fan of Irish music. If you've never gone in an Irish Pub around the western coast, or Connemara, or Donegal, you have never felt the community and the brotherhood of those little bands of friends who plays there. That's Ireland ...

[@katrinahall506]

Thrilling music! When I first heard this on public radio on Cape Cod, I had to pull off the road because it was so utterly beautiful.

[@alemalquier4302]

The dream team

[@christianhunter1366]

Great video. Lads are shedding

[@ljubodraggrujic4872]

For me, the best tune ever. Like, ever

[@paddy2411]

Paddy Keenan is surely the best Uillean Pipe musician I've never heard. He is skill and accurate, and places so nice ornamentation that his acting is a perfection. So perfect is Matt Molloy too ...

[@ruairimonophthalmos5458]

absolute legends.

[@jm123456789101112]

Perfection.

[@Missouramule]

Puts most of today's videos to shame.

[@ruairimonophthalmos5458]

Gosh you can just feel the energy throughout the clip, wish more people would learn to love these old recordings. Absolute giants of Irish folk!

[@kickatinalong]

Wow!! I'd forgotten how good they were. Burke and Molloy especially!!

[@zuperduperboi]

That lad was born to play the fiddle.

[@Kampfwageneer]

just the backing chords alone are savage AF and ive been playing sessions for years

[@Philrc]

I think of them all The Bothy Band were always my favourite.

[@MegaTechnology2012]

Grow old gracefully remembering the good times. thank you for the wonderful music and memories.

[@PlaiulNou]

The Laurel Tree Reel starting at 01:31 is SUPERB! Big LIKE from Romania!

[@bonaval8700]

Maravillosos Bothy Band!! 38 años después me siguen pareciendo los mejores, junto con Plantxy

[@AndrewHennessey]

love the laurel tree ... what a lift - anyone got a reference for a recording of Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill playing napoleon crossing the alps/hot asphalt on the clavinet ??

[@smkemper]

Thanks for this fantastic moment. Never seen Matt Molloy with so much hair before. : -)

[@lucamercurio]

May I cry? I'm really moved... Thank you for posting!

[@jackharry1646]

“The F1 of Irish music” as Hector called them... Serious stuff 👏🏻👍🏻

[@VasilicaCascaval]

the best pipe playing i ever saw! by the biggest legend of the instrument naturraly :)

[@ChristianRHarvey]

Quel plaisir de vous entendre, merci!

[@ellenilbak6076]

The greatest of the best!!

[@Sawlon]

Awesome!!!

[@LaProfondeurDuCiel]

You took the words out of my mouth

[@dougmurray907]

Oh yeah!!

[@ghasafello]

Matt Molloy será moito, pero mirade para o gaiteiro, ese Paddy Keenan é sublime, que sentimento, como decia Duke Ellington

[@Angui78]

i'm really into this band. the are, at least awesome. i really cannot explain what they make me feel like. dream summoners? fantastic!

[@Phalces]

great

[@donnellobrien]

I just stumbled onto this youtube video and am somewhat beside myself that someone else loves this incredible a capella piece as much as I do. Many years ago, I copied it onto a cassette tape - twice and in succession, so it would last longer! Please let me know if you find this! It would be incredible to actually have the lyrics as well, since all I have is a very crude phonetic representation.

[@Banshun]

Bilko, this is the best stuff on KZbin. Keep it coming. The Bothies and Lunny in llama-pattern woolies. Nobody could ask for more.

[@pascalcharpentier5682]

trop bon comme le reste !

[@kerryman69]

That's the job !

[@Dayepipes]

This was dating music for my future wife and only a few years after this time. We never dreamed we'd see video of a live performance. Is "Fionnghuala" posted anywhere?

[@michaeligoe3935]

Kevin Burke. London by birth. Sligo by the grace of God.

[@darkfey1963]

I've heard Matt Molloy described as the best flute player in Ireland,and I won't argue that,but the rest of the band are great too.(My god,where did his hair go?)

[@Gwyhir]

Yep... this was my time too, and thats a typical audience of the time... dull lot arn't they.

[@piobairesicago]

@fcas2y6 I would say Paddy Keenan is (was) the star of the Bothies but I'm biased, being an exponent of the ol' wooden octopus meself

[@piobairesicago]

@sweet123pea Billy Brocker's - The Humous of Loughrea - The Laurel Tree

[@liamg353]

@BardicPiper you are right it is a harpsichord

[@francis19972011]

The laurel tree starts at 1:31.

[@alonzogarbanzo]

What a kickass band this was. RIP Micheal. What's with the camera crew's obsession with the pattern on the wall? I'd so rather be watching Donal's or Kevin's or Triona's or Kevin's or Paddy's flyin' fingers!

[@danny2518]

Play the Bothy Band and the sea shanties LOUDER AND LOUDER until Ireland is Ireland again! Until they can't stand it anymore!

[@darkfey1963]

@kiltownkid I'll have to check that out.Any particular recommendations for recorded material? I'm game to check out new stuff!

[@JosephEaorle]

I heard them playing road to lisdoonvarna in a set of three jigs somewhere on youtube, and I can't find it now 3 days later... does anybody know where it is?

[@michaeldineen8324]

excellent work. does anyone know what programme the clip is from.?

[@Kitiwake]

#DonalLunnysFashionSense Donal wearing a scratchy llama wool jumper.

[@NightshadeTea]

@sophiethehound Still better than the 80's, bro.

[@Vaskis4life]

what is that piano-like instrument at 2:45?

[@smedaas]

@sophiethehound What's wrond with the hair? D:

[@piet3163]

It is a shame, I'm sure you all sound great still though

[@DeafFret]

0:40

[@thomasmckenna5372]

Are the audience sitting on their hand's 'Are their feet dead

[@DoubleADwarf]

Thomas Mckenna - No, they're just saving their strength. If you clapped along to every tune in a Bothy Band set, you'd be swinging a pair of stumps by the end of the night.

[@troyh2381]

it's cause they don't know how to act w/out any pints of brew in their hands to drink.

[@Eliaflute]

what flute is that???? anyone know it??

[@wayna9035]

Irish flute

[@Kitiwake]

It's a bohm system boroc flute...aka. Real Irish flute.

[@The3Ladds]

the audience look like they are there as a punishment!

[@piobairesicago]

The keyboard is a "clavinet" a sort of upright downsized harpsichord

[@brittaindominic]

is matt molloy playing that flute? looks so bored!