Guitar for Celtic?

[beloitpiper]

Just like banjo and mandolin can play lead, so can guitar. It's just that so many guitar players are used to being rhythm instrumentalists that they never take to learning any tunes. I was in that rut for awhile until I took up pipes.

So nothing is stopping you. There's a recording by Ryan J. MacNeil (out of Nova Scotia). He is primarily a piper, but one of the tracks is him playing lead guitar. I can e-mail it to you if you want to listen. It's pretty amazing stuff.

[McFarkus]

My nephew James (sometime poster here under Seamus) was the lead singer (and played the bodhran) in a Celtic punk band, Shilleleagh Law. They had acoustic and electric guitar a bass (fiddle not guitar) and a fiddle as well as other instruments. And the sound was amazing.

I think BeloitPiper has their CD - he still plays their stuff sometimes on his radio show.