
What I never never NEVER play are the tunes Highland pipers always trot out because they think of them as being "Irish" but which aren't part of the uilleann piping tradition (as far as I know- in 40 years I've never heard any Irish musicians play them).Ībout Danny Boy, my approach to tunes with too big a range for the Highland pipes is to play all the right notes but switch octaves when needed. Some of these are playable on the big pipes. (I've never met an Irish priest who didn't love Fields of Athenry.) So when I'm playing at an "Irish" funeral or wedding I tend to cycle through these three repertoires to sort of please everybody. (Fields of Athenry etc.)ģ) Songs in Irish from the sean nos tradition. These are the songs one hears sung in pubs and such. These are the ones Americans think of as being "Irish songs" (Danny Boy, Irish Eyes, and so forth.)Ģ) Irish Folk Music. Seems to me that here in the USA there are three distinct repertoires of "Irish" songs:ġ) the Tin Pan Alley songs, written in New York. I try to steer the people towards the uilleann pipes, but I will play the big pipes if the family insists. I've done dozens, maybe hundreds, of "Irish" funerals (Americans of Irish heritage, and people born and raised in Ireland). com.I have a different perspective, having played uilleann pipes for 40 years. Archives and past articles from the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.

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