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Although the lineup shifted, the Chieftains came to include celebrated musicians such as Martin Fay and Sean Keane on the fiddle, Derek Bell on harp, Matt Molloy on flute and Kevin Conneff on vocals and the bodhran, a traditional drum with a goatskin head.

Amid the roiling chaos of Reconstruction, Simon puts together a “scratch band” with the guitarist Doroteo Navarro, the whistle-player Damon Lessing and Patrick O’Hehir, who plays the bodhran and bones; each one of these characters is dogged and distinct in his own way.

“Fiddler” is suffused with music, and some of its most crystalline scenes feature the motley troupe: Damon, a Poe-quoting whistle player; Doroteo, a Tejano guitarist; and Patrick, a sweet, underage bodhran banger.

But sometimes local motifs creep in: Numbertheory included a sample of sean nós, an Irish tradition of haunting, melismatic singing; Syn’s track Coy included a sample of the ���ǻ���á��, an Irish drum made with goatskin; Lighght’s excellent 2019 album, Gore-Tex in the Club, Balenciaga Amongst the Shrubs, makes use of the harp.

At Staples Center, where he was still performing as a one-man band, Sheeran hit that sweet spot in a spirited “Castle on the Hill” — with its warm recollection of his wasted youth in the English countryside — and in “Nancy Mulligan,” in which he seemed to take real pleasure as he replicated the studio version’s fiddle and ���ǻ���á�� parts with only the strings and body of his acoustic guitar.