Turlough O\'Carolan was an irish harpist who lived in the mid-1600s and wrote pieces for the people he met and stayed with - playing music in exchange for hospitality. Tradition has it that the harp was played last thing at night, before people went to bed.The building I\'m playing it in was a bakery built around 1790, serving the local houses. The bread oven is in the stone wall behind me, and the building has a new floor and triple-glazing on the windows. It\'s a great mixture of old and new and a great place to play this music. \n\nAppropriately, I recorded this piece very late one night, and just went with the first take so the playing has the odd rough bits. I like to think that\'s authentic - apparently Carolan never played the same way twice. Bet he never had as much trouble as I did finding DivX codecs, either!\n\nOnly the melodies survive, so I\'ve done this arrangement myself and I\'m playing it here on a Pilgrim gut-strung harp. The arrangement and video is my copyright. You are welcome to learn and play the arrangement (by ear - I haven\'t written it down!) if you like it - but please credit me if you play it in public. If you like it,I\'ll post more music.\n\nTo make the recording I used a Sony 3-CCD camera direct to hard disk, with one audio take, noise-reduced in Cool Edit Pro, with Adobe Premiere Pro to edit the visuals together. If you want a higher-quality file to download and keep on your computer, just send me a message. Carolan, Celtic, Clarsach, Harp, Irish, Music, O'Carolan