Best Pubs for Traditional Irish Music in Cork - Ep. 25
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- What's a better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than to have some pints and enjoy traditional Irish music in Cork Ireland? From the sentimental to the celebratory, live Irish folk music has it all. In this episode, Franklin and I hit up the pubs in Cork that are best known for their trad music. We started in a pub called Charlie's, then headed over to Sin É, and rounded out the night with a little bonus, Irish dancing, at The Oliver Plunkett.
While Cork's Lee Sessions has some great options, I'm sure we missed many other great places for Irish trad music so, if you know of any good pubs, please do share it with us in the comments!
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Having lived in Cork... I miss it most every day. Greetings from Norway.
You Alf. Same here.
Great video guys. Charlie's, Sin e...etc all class pubs for trad! We're so lucky living in a city of great music!! 😁👍🎶
I'm from Cork and am a regular in both Charlie's and Sin é. You did miss one very special place...Coughlans on Douglas street. And next door to Sin é at the other side to the funeral home, is the Corner house which is good too. Upstairs in Sin ę is a barbers seat where you could have your hair cut with pint in hand. Downstairs are the rules for getting your hair cut...hilarious.
Nice to see home again 😀ty guys
Glad you enjoyed it Alexa 😁
Folk music have survived in all of Europe for now at least but the Irish really do it so well
The instruments used in irish music typically are the
Fiddle
Tin whistle
Flute
Banjo
Uillean pipes(bellows blown bagpipes)
Accordion
concertina
spoons
bones
Bodhran(drum(
Guitar
mandolin
bazooki
+clay fada brilliant! Thanks for these! :) We've seen spoons being used before which was really unique but bones!? Do you mean actual skeletal bones?
your welcome.The bones are animal bones and pieces of wood i am not sure which is more common nowadays .
The thing about neutrality i would take with a pinch of salt,scotland and brittany in france have a lively folkscene aswell and the UK and France Certainly weren't neutral in the world wars.We were neutral in ww2 only in ww1 we were apart of the UK.Its more to do with being rural and having a small population which increases the social impact of the music.For example there is a lively folk scene in england ,but the social impact is much less due to the population being much bigger.Its also a living tradition that is evolving and changing all the time with the musicians improvising as they are playing all the time all the while rejuvenating the music.
@@clayfada6993 You've made some good points. We attend the Sea Shanty (sailor songs) Festival in Falmouth, Cornwall every year where many of the participants are from Brittany and Cork/Cobh and the East Coast of the US. They all influence each other. And here's another point--many of the Irish musicians to whom we've spoken (or more accurately, downed a zillion beers with) have said that the popularization of Irish Trad and American Bluegrass in the United States in the late 60s and 70s then made performing Irish Trad in Ireland more financially feasible as a living. They felt their music became energized.
just based on something you said there...why is the music so big....i dont think its just in Ireland that trad music is big. In Germany and other countries its more or less dead. This is in great part due to the (quite extensive) canon of German folk song having been used by the Nazis for propaganda and indoctrination purposes, which caused traditional music in germany to become bad after WWII - people did not want to be associated with it and its attendant baggage. There were attempts to remedy the situation in the latter part of the 20th century by groups such as Liederjan and Zupfgeigenhansl which met with limited success.
Not just Ireland, but most other European countries have thriving trad music scenes, e.g. Sweden, Poland, Romania, Croatia, Italy etc. I suspect that Ireland’s insular nature, and its history of struggle for independence, have been helpful in keeping the traditions alive.
I think
This bit about the German folk music is very interesting. Thanks for sharing all of this info. We'll keep this in mind for future travels.
We didn't experience much folk music in the part of Poland we lived in, aside from a few street performers in the summer. Now you've got us curious though! :D
bagus sekali ! matur suksma
More Danielle, please.
I know it's a year late, but you should've headed to An Spalipín Fánach :/
Sunday is also the best day for trad in Dublin
Yes! Our favorite place is Brazen Head 😁
Nononono ...its ok ...but the cobblestone pub is the gem
1.cobblestone
2.Hughes
3.Pipers corner
4.O´Donoghues(on a Sunday its amazing)
5.Darkey Kellys(also on Sunday its really good)
Those 5 have music everyday
The Brazen head also has music everyday but its gotten too busy and difficult to enjoy
O Sheas accross the road is also very reliable
O´neills on suffolk street do music every night as well(with irish dancing)
Merchants do music everyday and is all right
Then on the weekend you have Devitts pub, Doheny and Nesbitts bar, McNeills, Staggs head(ukelele session on tuesday), .....theres loads more ....especially on Sunday
A tin flute.....this is going to make me laugh for a good while :)
What are your favorite pubs in Cork for traditional Irish music? Are there are any pubs that have live trad with vocals? 😍
From Coast A Costa Should definitely try An Spailpín Fánach on south main street from around 9.30 on a Saturday night. It’s normally a big gathering of college student musicians and they lift the roof! There’s usually an American guy there that has an amazing voice and sings old irish songs. Highly recommend it😊🎻☘️☘️
+John Mulcahy sounds like our kind of party!! Thanks so much for the suggestion!
+Slippery Dodger thanks for the suggestion! 😁
Counihan's is our favorite in Cork. Counihans Bar
3 Pembroke St, Centre, Cork, Ireland
+353 21 427 7850
goo.gl/maps/37o3QJhZapJ2
The Abbey Tavern plays great traditional and modern rock/alternative music, and they know damn well how to pour a pint of Beamish! 54 Gillabbey Street, Cork
Years ago there was more pubs than anything
More than there are today?! 😅