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irish music on asian instruments?!?

submitted by kasinator

1 decade 4 years 2 months 4 weeks ago

the instrument is called Shamisen. They are playing that Irish folk song that was played in Titanic.

14 Comments

lovely..

*asia
*celtic

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Not entirely too 'WTF' - there's a pretty big traditional Irish music community in Japan and other parts of Asia.

See here, for example: http://www.youtube.com/user/hatao

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>> ^EndAll:

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Not entirely too 'WTF' - there's a pretty big traditional Irish music community in Japan and other parts of Asia.
See here, for example: http://www.youtube.com/user/hatao

*nochannel

*asia
*celtic
*livemusic
*music

Music? Yes, Art? I'm not so sure.

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The tune is called Ryan's Polka

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/441

dag

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Sounds great!

Pure *quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by ponceleon.

Looks like i'm starting to really get the hang of these sifts!

Where's the god damn bodhran?! Irish music without a bodhran drum is anathema!

In all seriousness, that is pretty funny to hear.

*doublepromote!

Double-Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Sunday, August 29th, 2010 4:07pm PDT - doublepromote requested by NicoleBee.

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