When Tim O’Shea and Karol Lynch play music, you’ll find soul in every title.
With the ease of the genius, Tim O’Shea and Karol Lynch formed their musical landscape. The two Irishmen visited the Greiz “Café Lebensart” last Wednesday. They gave their listeners in the nearly sold out venue excellent Irish Folk to feel, dream and enthuse. O’Shea and Lynch showed again that there is no need to fight technical battles or stir up pathetic style mixtures in order to produce infectious music. And even with the at times overly supplied classical Irish Folk you can still capture an audience. Under the condition that you have two such talented musicians like Tim O’Shea and Karol Lynch. As instrumentalists, and here one must simply celebrate the virtuosity at the banjo of the young Karol Lynch, as well as musicians that give each title a piece of soul, the duo presented themselves absolutely impressively - from the first until, for the fun of it long after the official end of the concert and last note played.
Ballads, emotional songs carried by poetical lyrics interchanged with lively Jigs and Reels. And just like these two ends of a spectrum, so the musicians too form contrasts that need one another for perfection. There are the calm and a little spirited vocals on one side, and the young “wild” Karol Lynch playing the banjo masterfully, yet ever so pressingly on the other.
Together they pick up the roots of Irish Folk and take it like only the Irish can do to the 21st century, without robbing it of its power and expression with modern “Gimmicks”.
