The Bothy Band - Pretty Peg And Craig’s Pipes (1976)

The Bothy Band perform ‘Pretty Peg’ and ‘Craig’s Pipes’ at The Embankment pub in Tallaght, County Dublin.
The influential traditional Irish group, The Bothy Band recorded a two-part concert for RTÉ Television in The Embankment Cabaret Rooms, Tallaght, Dublin on 29 September 1976.
The Bothy Band are Dónal Lunny on bouzouki, flute and whistle player Matt Molloy, Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill on clavinet and bodhrán, uilleann piper Paddy Keenan, fiddler Kevin Burke and Mícheál Ó Domhnaill on acoustic guitar.
The Bothy Band perform the traditional song ‘Pretty Peg’ and a reel ‘Craig’s Pipes’. ‘Pretty Peg’ is sung in English by Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill.
According to Dónal Lunny there are many songs with the same theme as ‘Pretty Peg’,
The young man going to visit the girl in the middle of the night and trying to sort of keep a low profile.
Dónal Lunny formed The Bothy Band in 1975 after he left the group Planxty to form his own record label, Mulligan Records. The Bothy Band broke up in 1979.
The Bothy Band recorded three studio albums and released one live album. A best of record was released in 1983 with a further live album in 1995. ‘Pretty Peg ’/’Craig’s Pipes’ features on the band’s debut ‘1975: The First Album’.
‘At The Embankment’ was a 12 week music series featuring well known performers on the traditional Irish music scene, recorded at The Embankment pub in Tallaght, County Dublin. It ran from 1 October to 17 December 1976.
This episode of ‘At The Embankment’ was broadcast on 22 October 1976. The producer is Noel Greene.

[@berndgermany]

Did you hear: The Bothy Band are going on tour again in 2024! After 40 years... miracles still happen.

[@RestWithin]

Are they coming over here? North Wales.

[@aurmarian]

make it 50 !! incredible indeed

[@michaeljordan6479]

Beautiful Brilliant Performance The Best Band In The Worlld

[@wraithby]

Vivid memory of opening a parcel, living at home with my Connemara parents in Boston, MA 1977, contained therein, LPs- first two Bothy Band records, two De Danaan records, a couple of Chietftains albums, and sean nos singers from Carna Joe Heaney and Sean ac Donnca. There hasn't been a richer era for Irish trad music.

[@DanChanPiano]

Agreed! Truly the era of Irish trad music Renascence. I as well have very similar memories of Celtic LPs arriving from Green Linnet in the 70's, the golden age of Irish traditional music. Great albums from Planxty, Bothy Band, Altan and the like served as tutors for my growing repertoire on accordion and whistle. My turntable had a 16 rpm setting down from the normal 33 1/3 rpm, where I could slow the blindingly fast reels down to half speed and get them note for note. Musicians had to be resourceful back in the day before information and technology made everything so available at the click of a mouse.

[@johnmc3862]

Indeed It was the folk revival of the 70’s. Great solo albums in the late 70’s, Frankie Gavins 1st, Kevin Burke, ’If the Cap fits’ both 1978 and Mary Bergin and Liz Carroll 1st solo albums in 1979. All classics.

[@alanscott6836]

Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill was out on her own back then. A true star in a group of great stars.

[@michaeljordan3422]

Best Band In The World

[@nancyholcombe8030]

One of the best songs that prove that what's old is new again! I understand from my Irish friends that this one comes from the 17th or 18th century! Just one thing has always bothered me about it though: how did she know he needed a ladder with thirty steps and three???

[@wostoulfhednar5205]

Lots of voice, instruments. Honest and straight, no frills, rough edges. Irish folk how I love him. Besides Planxty and the Wolfetones one of my first records at the age of 13 :-D

[@magzb2642]

How we love these beautiful melodies sung by beautiful vouces.. they must weary of them sometimes; bless them for keeping going so we can swing by every now and again and enjoy ❤

[@PJP812]

Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill has a great voice

[@Hanoverauto]

I'm so glad I managed to see their farewell concert at the Irish Centre in Leeds in 1979, I think it was.

[@praha007]

found back a recording of them on the Pink Pop festival in Geleen in 1977, as broadcasted on Dutch radio in those days. Outstanding performance !

[@martinlintzgy1361]

Wow, what an incredible performance, thanks to whoever recorded it, and for the upload, to preserve for future generations to enjoy

[@pmoses9324]

The stamp Ireland issued for the Bothy Band seems to be a picture of this performance. Unless they wear the same clothes for every performance.

[@sheiladelahunt1989]

What a great recording fabulous band

[@davidcpugh8743]

Live music made flyover live. Speaking as a guy who plays harmonica by ear in a standing bluegrass jam.

[@tailendcharlie]

I am so glad they recorded these performances

[@blpblp-tj7ux]

wow..fantastic audio quality, too. what a treasure.

[@QRS666]

Man, the quality of both the visual and audio is amazing here! Almost feel like it was recorded now instead of almost 45 years ago!! Love bothy band

[@mariehayes3475]

They were brilliant I'm gone down a rabbit hole

[@JohninRosc]

Beautiful!

[@sarahkalokerinos2921]

Lovely!

[@LeifASneen]

Great to see them...and the sound! I don´t have their records, only homemade cassettes I received from a friend for over 40 years ago.

[@infledermaus]

Well those are priceless! Please, for your sake, transfer them onto discs!

[@irishfield1]

So amazing Bothy Band and Triona Go Halainn

[@frunomaol5069]

"Go hálainn" means beautiful in irish

[@Melvorgazh]

Waoow! So new Bothy Band físeáin !!! In FullHD

[@Melvorgazh]

Chonaic mise Tríona agus a dheifriúr Máiréid i 2017 sa Bhruiséil, An Bheilg 😼😎👍🏻

[@richiehoyt8487]

I was 9 or 10 when my parents gave me a compilation album called "Another Feast of Irish Folk". This was a _Huuge_ element in my musical education, like hearing Coltrane or Parker and realizing Jazz didn't have to be like the stuff bands played at supermarket and car showroom openings, or, well, I was already into rock, but hypothetically, listening to late period Status Quo and then discovering Zeppelin, or Hendrix! Prior to "AFoIF", well, Irish _Pop_ was bad enough; Gina Dale Haze & the Champions× - *>`eeesh!!’

[@duncanlaing6078]

Nobody cares

[@richiehoyt8487]

@@duncanlaing6078 Who left you to do all the washing - up, *ya l8i†ch?!*

[@geoawesome]

Dear Paddy!

[@geoawesome]

Ездили вместе в троллейбусе по Невскому проспекту!

[@Sawlon]

Thanks, Lee!

[@drgreyhound]

Superb.

[@Melvorgazh]

So Dónal agus Tríona shared the same bodhrán on stage?

[@peggygrennan148]

How’s I miss this one? 🤣

[@johnhayes8557]

You were in the basket in the door's after?

[@lisamarieva3514]

So wonderful but whatever she is saying sounds slightly naughty.

[@greggoetsch3805]

You must be joking!

[@murph_mustela]

For all you know it could've been filmed this year... trad players still dress the same, and still use the same crap cameras to film everything!

[@simontimoney]

Brilliant