In honor of St. Patrick's Day, our Monday Video comes from one of my very favorite Irish bands, The Saw Doctors, performing an accoustic version of their song "N17" at Nighthawks in Dublin. (The band's name comes from itinerant craftsmen who once traveled from sawmill to sawmill sharpening and repairing saws. And the N17, for those unfamiliar with Ireland, is a road that runs from County Sligo to County Galway.) For more information about the Saw Doctors, and a list of their CDs, visit their website. "N17" comes from an early CD, If This is Rock and Roll I Want My Old Job Back, which is terrific -- but all of their CDs are fabulous and I'd be hard put to recommend one over another.
If your taste in Irish music runs more towards the traditional, follow this link to a video of the American-Irish band Solas performing "Coconut Dog/Morning Dew," with some truly lovely fiddle and guitar playing. And then for something different again, here's "Tóg é go bog é," a Gaelic song sung to the beat of bodhrán and djembe drums, from the Dublin folk-fusion band Kíla. For more information on these bands, visit the Solas and Kíla websites.
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