People clapping along to a flute solo from an expert - Jesus wept!

i am from tunisia and i liiike matt molloy and the irish music

Matt Molloy A musical genius

An absolute master of his craft

A slip jig to open Matt’s medley! Boyo, James Galway has nothing on you. (I also love your pub in Westport!)

Moveing to Northern Ireland ASAP with my best friend Sharon so we can visit Westport Matt Molloys Pub ! That's not the only reason !!! S ha lived in Southern Ireland 🇮🇪 and loves it ....I. trying to help her...)

Absolutely wonderful.

I have all his CDs and all the chieftains to ❤❤❤

By moving away from the mic several times, he was trying to give the clappers a subtle hint. This clapping craze comes from Hollywood films like 'Titanic', where people are seen clapping wildly and dancing madly whenever Irish music plays. You can't really hear the music if you're clapping along.

Wonderful playing. 3 tunes, there - the traditional slip-jig, "A Fig For A Kiss", followed by 2 reels, "The Moving Cloud", and "Carmel Mahoney Mulhaire's". "The Moving Cloud" is a composition of fiddle player Neilidh Boyle, and the last tune was composed by accordion player Martin Mulhaire, and named in honour of his wife, Carmel.

Outstanding and brilliant

Musical genius ❤

Wonderful Matt Molloy🥰🥰🥰🥰🥲

So beautiful

IVE GOT THIS ON C.D.🥰 I LOVE IT 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥲

Gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!

Love it

Love the guy going SHHH at 1:35 :P

I see many here who do not understand what it means to play from the heart, it is quite different then being bound to the rules of Bach or rhythm. It's power and fluid, ebb and flow is the feeling. Feeling that the audience genuinely enjoys what you play, compels you, tickles you, to lose yourself into this ebb and flow, to this play, to this dance of feelings inside you which comes out into a melody of the flute. Don't believe me? Look at his eyes. Straight down, meaning that he is focusing on feelings. Also see how his body starts to move with the audience when they begin to clap, music isn't some achievement-status-game to all. To some, it is something you do for enjoyment and is truly, when you know that those around you enjoy the very exact same thing, a magical sense of unity.

Back when he was still playing a Boosey Pratten ( 19th C Flute )

Last time in Matt Molloys pub in Westport, we go to Hobans too, i was with my darling wife, Ann n George from nr Castlebar…cousins

I thought the tempo was a wee bit too fast, driven by the clapping of the audience. Still mesmerising playing by Matt. After the video I just had to put on his Heathery Breeze album, one of my all time favourite Matt Molly recordings, which, incidentally, starts with The Moving Cloud, the second the tune he plays here (after A Fig For A Kiss; don't know the name of the second reel, though.)

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The problem is that when you go from a slow tune to a faster one, you are looking to gradually increase the speed in the first few seconds, but people get excited and start clapping before you reach the final tempo, which is exactly what happens in this clip...

The thing is that Matt plays quite fast, but there is still a lot going on in his music; whereas some play just the notes very fast and forget (or cannot) give meaning to the music...

Mighty flute playing. Terrible clapping.

if the people were really tuned into the "spirit" of the music they wouldn't have driven the tempo to stupidity with their clapping….great playing by Matt despite having the equivalent of a great dancer endure gunfire aimed at his feet

Ok fair enough it's hard to blame them if they want to clap, blood rising and all that, but most of them have cloth ears.

Truly beautiful . Does anyone have any David Morris-Roe from Ballaghdereen, Co.Roscommon area ? Me dad said he was a master like Matt

Quit the feckin clapping, folks.

Found a €20 note outside his pub in Westport a few year back.

Two flutes

Audiences..........

No, It doesnt. But the people In the Audience think it does. People like to get into the spirit of the music, That was All I was Saying.

No doubt the clappers meant well, but it had to be annoying to the flautist.

How hard is it to understand that you should clap only at the end??

Tip for people who want to clap in time: look at the player's feet.

That sounds "in time" to you?

I believe they were Clapping in time to the music. Its kinda nice when the crowd gets into the spirit of the music though :)

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