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They were on PBS here some time last year and I watched a bit. I thought it was lip-synced/mimed too. But someone was telling me just last week that they went to see it live and swear up and down the singing was genuine.

Who knows? It's all too "perfect" regardless...I watched only a "bit" because I got bored and turned it off.

Doug "Celtic music is supposed to be exciting"

Most likely is... they never breath... even in the close up shots.

At best, they filmed it, then overdubbed/re-recorded the audio in the studio.

- or - they took an entire day taping the show, doing it over and over until it was right.

Reason #1 Nashville locals don't go to tapings - it takes 3+ hours to do a 30 minute show - went to my first (and last) and watched a prominent bluegrass artist do a song 8 times because she didn't like any of the takes - they used 45 seconds of it in the final show.

There is something about a woman speaking in an Irish brogue that is so fetching to me.
I heard a lady start a conversation in the Dublin Airport. I was deeply in love with her before I even turned around to see what she looked like. She was a very pretty flight attendant for Aer Lingus but I was ready to marry her even if her face had looked like ten miles of bad road.
I channel surfed into "Celtic Women" one night and could not bring myself to jump back to my favorite "Military Channel" despite the all-too-perfect production.
The beautiful ladies sang very well and the jump-around violin chick can dip her pantyhose in my coffee cup any time she wants.

I think they jump around too much also, but ya gotta love that parquet flooring!

Irrelevant factoid:
That Phil Driscoll dude come from right here in Tulsa, OK. Even same denomination of church what I growed up in: Church of God, Anderson, IN. Except he was at East Tulsa Church of God, and I was at 1st Church of God which no longer exists -- the building, at 3rd and Trenton, eventually owned, for a time, by Leon Russell for his recording studio. Go to maps.google.com street view to get a pretty good look at it.

windshieldbug wrote:I think they jump around too much also, but ya gotta love that parquet flooring!

I must be missing something but I do not see a single violin anyhwhere in that picture......

ken "butter" k

When I first saw the thread, I though of the song Irish Washerwoman...
I played it in corps in '07, along with some "afro-celtic cheerleading" visuals...
Oh how I miss those G beasts...

ken k wrote:

windshieldbug wrote:I think they jump around too much also, but ya gotta love that parquet flooring!

I must be missing something but I do not see a single violin anyhwhere in that picture......
ken "butter" k

I'm am totally puzzled as to why you bothered to look for a violin.

TubaRay wrote:

ken k wrote:

windshieldbug wrote:I think they jump around too much also, but ya gotta love that parquet flooring!

I must be missing something but I do not see a single violin anyhwhere in that picture......
ken "butter" k

I'm am totally puzzled as to why you bothered to look for a violin.

I don't think he was looking for a whole violin, I think he was just looking for the G-string.

Now, I get it!

There was lots of dubbing, according to this 2005 review, which allegedly quotes the producers: "Putting together DVDs and albums are very complicated and take many months of work. The DVD is shot over a number of performances, and sometimes the audio may come from a different performance and therefore may not exactly match despite the best technical efforts."

http://www.amazon.com/review/R20AKCTM0F ... KCTM0FF7BI" target="_blank

schlepporello wrote:

BierGeek wrote:

bloke wrote:Does that sound like a politician/lawyer or *what*?

*WHAT*

I concur.

I did NOT have sexual relations with that woman!

windshieldbug wrote:I think they jump around too much also, but ya gotta love that parquet flooring!

Dean E wrote:I did NOT have sexual relations with that woman!

Which one was that woman???

MartyNeilan wrote:

windshieldbug wrote:I think they jump around too much also, but ya gotta love that parquet flooring!

Dean E wrote:I did NOT have sexual relations with that woman!

Which one was that woman???

That depends on the definition of "that."

You guys gotta admit, this is really Christmasy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDeXUvWbLp8" target="_blank

Okay, who's game for "Celtic Tuba"?

knuxie wrote:Only if you can find a long-haired blond who can dance around with a CC...

Hey, if it'll win the gig, pass me the bleach and a bag of Doritos...



Mmmm... Doritos...

Back to the original posting............................................................


I had one of those experiences back in 1985 when a well-known ice dancing show travelled through the area. I was hired to play in a series of performances, and was introduced to the concept that the group had to use a number of live musicians to keep the union happy. Everything we played was already on recorded tracks, and was being heard through the venue, no matter what or how we played.


Tom Mason