Christmas tune samples on Irish bouzouki: Greensleeves, I Wonder As I Wander, When As Rose
Christmas & trad tune samples on Irish bouzouki: O Come O Come Emmanuel, Coventry Carol, Hanter Do
Xmas & trad tune samples on Irish bouzouki: God Rest Ye Merry..., We Three Kings, My Lagen Love
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Two angles to my act:
1- I'm looking to do light live background Christmas & Celtic/traditional tunes on Irish bouzouki for small/medium sized parties/events. This would be no to light amplification, all instrumental. I'm not even looking to make any significant money doing this, it's to get out there and deliver and have fun.
2- "Plugged" hot acoustic bluesey/bluegrass/trad country type tunes with vocals or instrumental on guitar and bouzouki.
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Gig length: 60 - 180 minutes
Please note! I am a "genre" act specializing in blues/country-blues/bluegrass/folk styles! I am NOT your typical wedding event/MOR/pop sort of player. See details below please!
a) Irish bouzouki instrumentation (only): see videos with Christmas/traditional song lineups. My idea for this sort of performing is to be light background and "seasonal presence" music, Christmas-style, with some Celtic type crossover tunes in the mix. Light to no amplification, depending on the situation (room size, crowd size, volume limits, etc). Personally if I hired someone to create this sort of effect for a party/event the music would "there" but easily able to be talked over. "Light piano bar" only on bouzouki/acoustic guitar.
b) "Plugged acoustic" instrumentation (electrified acoustic & bouzouki): see Live Song Slices videos as an example of that style of playing I do, as well as the original and cover song samples in Audio. I do some non-Christmas type traditional/folk tunes on Irish bouzouki also, and a set of bluesey/folky/bluegrass/country type songs on guitar (I also play a lot of loud electric guitar, see other audio samples, but that's not for this kind of act :).
If anyone would care to try it for the occasion I could mix (a) and (b) above.
Greetings. I am a lifelong musician, been playing for over 50 years, mainly guitar but also bass guitar, drums, and as per videos I am proficient on Irish bouzouki and mandolin. I have played in bands off and on over the years either in lead guitar or drums & bass, occasionally, but I've taken up light solo performing since around 2018, instrumental or with vocals.
Only technical requirements are:
- good protected electrical source (typical 110v)
Amplification (if desired):
- For option (a) in "What to expect" - no PA needed, I provide amplification
- For option (b) in "What to expect" - small PA, I can provide this but if you have a decent one there already I can use that, and microphone (I provide). I provide amplification
Lighting:
- if small setting outdoors, some minimal ambient lighting (white is fine). I can provide stage "par-can" lights if it's a sizeable area and/or with a stage.
At the moment I do not have a super extensive set list as yet, but enough to fill up a couple hours, with breaks and "repeats" which is not an invalid thing to do in a light/background instrumental sort of requirement (as in "A"). Adding additional (B) tunes if it's a mix, then could fill up a couple hours easy.
From "What to expect":
A - Christmas tunes on unplugged or plugged Irish bouzouki (again see videos for these):
Greensleeves
I Wonder As I Wander
When As Rose
O Come O Come Emmanuel
Coventry Carol
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlmen
We Three Kings
Boy's Carol
Christ Ist Erstanden
Once In Royal David's City
My Lagen Love (Irish traditional)
Women Of Ireland (Irish traditional)
All Along With My Love (Irish/British traditional)
Belle Qui Tien Ma Vie (French traditional)
Hanter Do (French traditional)
Wassail/Joy To The World (acoustic guitar)
Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring (acoustic guitar)
Celtic improv/jamming
B - blues/traditional/folk/bluegrass - plugged acoustic guitar/bouzouki:
Bouzouki:
All The Way To Galway / As The Crow Flies (on bouzouki, Irish trad / blues ballad)
Guitar:
Parachute Woman (Rolling Stones, blues)
Mean Town Blues (Johnny Winter, blues)
Dust Pneumony Blues / Vigilante Man (Woody Guthrie, blues)
Lost Highway (Hank Williams, trad country)
Super Blues (JJ Cale, jazzy blues)
Thirteen Days (JJ Cale, folk/blues)
If You're Ever In Oklahoma (JJ Cale, folk/bluegrass)
Hold On (JJ Cale, jazzy blues)
You Got Me On So Bad (JJ Cale, jazzy blues)
Who Do You Love (Bo Diddley/Doors)
What A Woman/Commit A Crime (Howlin' Wolf)
Love In Vain (Robert Johnson/R Stones, blues)
In Christ There Is No East Or West (Kottke/Fahey instrumental)
Good Lord Mr. Ford (Jerry Reed instrumental)
Slide guitar blues improv/jamming
I have many different influences, depending on the sort of music I'm playing, but for this acoustic plugged/unplugged style:
- John Renbourn/Bert Jansch/Pentangle
- Leo Kottke
- Rory Gallagher
- Rolling Stones
- Robin Bullock
- many different original blues players (John Lee Hooker, Fred Mcdowell, Willie McTell, etc)
See "Technical" for amplification/lighting/electrical.
If outdoors in heavy sun, a canopy of some sort (it's a given that there won't be any playing outdoors in cold/wet weather)
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