JIM LUCAS
Perfect for a St. Patrick's Day celebration,
Jim Lucas
has been singing Irish songs and playing Irish tunes for more than 40 years.
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I play both tin whistle and concertina, but my "first instrument" has always been my voice. I often accompany my singing on the concertina, but I especially enjoy "sean nos", the old style of singing unaccompanied. I sing songs of all sorts... songs of love, songs of rebellion, comic songs, lyric songs, tragic songs, and the typically Irish "mouth music", which can be as good as a fiddle when one wants to dance steps or sets. On songs with a chorus, I'm most pleased if the audience sings along -- after all, that's what the chorus is for, -- but I won't try to force those who would rather just listen. And the tunes? I play jigs and reels, to be sure, but there's far more than that to real Irish music... brisk marches and polkas, jaunty hornpipes, lyrical slip jigs, and emotional slow airs. I'm not a "band", of course, and that in itself is very Irish. The Irish today do have their bands (and I have been known to play in such groups), but the unaccompanied playing of a single instrument has long been considered the purest form of Irish music, and more than adequate for either listening or dancing. The sound files are just short samples, intended to give a taste of the sorts of music I do. If you like what you hear and would like to hear more, you can send me an email by clicking here. My telephone (in Denmark) is (+45) 22 62 03 99. |
Tunes on tin whistle
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Unaccompanied songs
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Songs with concertina
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Tunes on concertina
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