Word: bodhran
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...literal vagabonds as well, carried by caprice along informal circuits of such cities as Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, New Orleans and Key West. A folk quartet called the Nee Ningy Band has also covered Africa and Western and Eastern Europe during its ten-year career. Consisting of fiddle, harmonica, bodhran (a flat goatskin drum) and penny whistle, the group takes its name from the sound the fiddle makes-nee ningy, nee ningy, nee ningy. Its members carry camping equipment, often stay in local homes. Says Violinist Rachel Maloney: "You learn to live with the insecurity, just as you learn...
Monday night at the Black Rose (523-8486) Peter Johnson hosts an open hoot. Tuesday, the 15th through Saturday, the 19th, The Black Rose-- a very authentic foursome, between them playing guitar, fiddle, mandolin and bodhran--perform traditional Irish music at the Black Rose. (Clever, eh?) Rose opens at noon on St. Patric's day; don't go, it will be jammed. See the listings page for other nights...
...that sort of garbage," says Moloney. As can be heard on their new LP, Chieftains 5 (Island Records), or the Barry Lyndon sound-track album (Warner Bros.), the Chieftains' music consists of dances and airs played on tin whistles (surprisingly debonair in sound), bones (animal), the bodhran (a goatskin drum), fiddles, harps, an oboe and, most glorious of all, the Irish bagpipes, more precisely known as the uilleann (elbow) pipes. Unlike Scottish bagpipes, which are breath-blown, the Irish pipes are pumped by a bellows under the right arm of the player, who must be able to finger...