Irish & American Folk Music: One For The Foxes

[Walker]

A brilliant Irish & American folk combination.



...oh, and who needs cassotto... that Saltarelle sounds sweet!!

 

[OuijaBoard]

No one cares about Cassotto in folk/trad/roots music, including the genre virtuosos. Many don't care about the 41/120 size and in fact avoid it like the plague. Well, some of the Scottish ceili players do play big full-size accordions including Golas with cassotto, but it's infrequent with the gorgeous Irish PA players. Some of the Northern players like in Donegal might play large PAs. But many of the best go for the premium Saltarelle or Castagnari hand-reed wood-chassis 72 or 96 bass sizes with 34 or 27 keys in 2, 3 or 4 voice versions like the player here.

Here's an all-instrumental example where this genre of PA is taking the melody rather than backing up a singer:

 

[Andy S]

Music is alive and well! Go humans!

 

[hummingbird]

A brilliant Irish & American folk combination.



...oh, and who needs cassotto... that Saltarelle sounds sweet!!

Gorgeous song.

 

[Walker]

Gorgeous song.

So true, hummingbird... so true.

Also, the lead singer has such a light and soothing voice. Lovely. They've got a sense of humour too - it's a live recording and I'm pretty sure the accordionist knocks his keyboard on the edge of the table at 3.03 and it makes a rather musical sounding squeak, a high E. At the end of the video you can see the band looking at the box player and smiling... 'cause they know. Very cool folk to leave it in... just sayin'.​

 

[losthobos]

Swings lovely.....sweet enough for a foxtrot