JOHN CARLOS

Like most Irish children, John started playing music many years ago, at the age of 6, by studying the tin whistle. Soon, however, under the tutelage of his own father, a renowned flute player, he took up the wooden flute, an instrument he would never give up except to turn to the banjo where he also excelled.

Born in Co. Roscommon, known as the county of the flute, John Carlos had only to rub shoulders with other illustrious flautists from this region: Matt Molloy, John Wynne, John Carty or Catherine McEvoy to name but a few.

On his album, whose title is a little unoriginal, Irish Traditional Music On Flute, he demonstrates that he is a talented flute player. In thirteen tracks and twenty-seven inspired tunes, he lets his virtuosity shine through. Here and there we can recognize a few tunes: The Rose in the Heather, The Turnpike Gate or Miss Crehan's. On I buried my wife and danced on top of her grave and on The Mullingar Races, he favours the banjo. And as a purely flute album might seem too austere, John has enlisted the services of a few colleagues, first and foremost his sons Dylan (fiddle) and Shane (flute), Paddy Kerr (bouzouki and bodhrán), John McCartin and Máirtí Ó Muirí (guitars). It's hard to get more authentic in the Irish tradition.

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