Dark Patrick?

[Eddie Sheehy]

Check this out...

[EdSherry]

Interesting playing. What is that thing? Looks like it's strung like a harp.

[citeog]

Ed,

You're certainly broadening my musical horizons:o)

Some luthier must have had a session with a bottle of poitin and came up with that yoke. That bridge looks bigger than my mandolin. I can't imagine Walton's selling one of those.

Paul

[Eddie Sheehy]

"Ethnic Fusion Group Dark Patrick.
Eva from Ukraine performs Irish Traditional music on an Old World Bandura (traditional Ukraine instrument)
This tune is available on Dark Patrick's Album "Fainne Gael an Lae"

[David Surette]

That is way cool

[whistler]

I played as support to Dark Patrick last year in Dolgellau, Wales. Eva is a fantastic musician and also plays hurdy gurdy. Her partner does the electronic stuff and also plays whistle and harmoninca.

I remember my surprise at hearing an instrument that looks like an overgrown mandolin but sounds like a wire-strung harp.

[whistler]

...and she's a great singer of traditional Ukrainian songs as well - a voice like a very finely-tuned foghorn.