By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger. Reposted in Ocean Grove 2014.
Saul and Lynn Goodman, visitors to the Grove on Saturday, June 28, are not your typical tourists. They are a professional guitar and fiddle duo from Pipersville, Pennsylvania. Their specialty is ethnic music including cajun, celtic and gypsy. They have a special interest in gypsy music from Eastern Europe, such as from the Ukraine. It is a fairly exotic specialty.
I stepped out on my porch and heard music by what I thought might have been a bluegrass radio station. But soon I realized that the music was coming from the park and that it was being performed live.
Walking over to the eastern edge of Firemen’s Park, I saw two musicians in the gazebo playing guitar (Saul) and violin (Lynn.) A few people had gathered around to listen. I thought their music was wonderful and so different from what we might ordinarily hear in this musical town.
When Saul mentioned Eastern European gypsy music, I thought of Django Reinhardt, the gypsy guitarist, whose music we often play on Blogfinger. And I also thought of the Woody Allen movie with Sean Penn called “Sweet and Lowdown.” It is one of the best outputs by both Penn and Allen. Penn plays a guitarist who is obsessed with Reinhardt whose music he could never surpass.
Here is a video of Lynn and Saul playing a Celtic tune called Fairy Queen by a famous 17th century Irish composer O’Carolan.
Thank you Lynn and Saul for a real treat. Sorry for the abrupt ending. The piece ended a few moments later.
Once you begin playing the video, If you put your cursor over the video, you will see small arrows in the lower right corner. Choose the upwards arrow to make the video much bigger.
