. . . play music from the soul.
The Wicked Tinkers play “Shenavalie Farm.”
It gives me tingles, especially once the bagpipe enters.
Happy Friday, everyone!
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The Rambling Apostrophist 
😀 WICKED KEWL!! 😀 AWESOME…
Haunting too also.
Those huge pipes – of course in the CRADLE of Celtic culture, they still have them & play them – The Alps! 😉
I’ll have to get whatever that one is on…
Oh & say – does that remind you of the fair at Forksville or WHA?? XD They SO belong on a bigger stage
They play a lot of Scottish games and Scottish festivals and such, so they usually are playing outdoors like that. 🙂
That one is on “Rant,” I do believe.
That big thing is a kind of didgeridoo, I think. Anyway, there’s a didge on that piece.
The Celtic horns are what they base that on though, that’s what they play in the Alps. Didgereedoos are Australian like boomerangs, haha! 😉 The Coirn n`Erinn sounds just like them, I have a recording of ACTUAL Bronze- & Iron-Age horns from the Irish National Museum being played by a famous English didgereedoo player.
Yes, I know. The Tinkers talk a little bit about the history of the Irish horn that looks & sounds like a didge and is played like one. They always call this a didgeridoo when they talk about it.
Here’s what it says on their website in the “Band Bio”: