Internet Video Jukebox

November 2014

by Paul Walker

YOUTUBE is a wonderful creation. At the click of a mouse, you can be a guest at an Irish house party, transported to Bolivia or looking through a collection of prize 78s. And all for free.

For Internet novices: Google YouTube; then type in the artiste’s name opposite the icon that looks like a magnifying glass.

Ella Mae O’Dwyer on concertina

Mrs. Ella Mae O’Dwyer, née Quill, from Athea in West Limerick (later of Ardgroom Co. Cork), playing a fling, followed by two reels, Toss the Feathers and Drowsy Maggie. Recorded in Cork in November 1982.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPDM-2seKpA (embedding disabled)

PRIMER AMOR (Concertina Boliviana. cueca)

el maestro SINFORIANO JIMENEZ playing what looks like an Edeophone;

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