Session at The Landmark Tavern
Mondays from 8 to 11 pm
626 11th Avenue at 46th Street, Manhattan

Tenor banjo, harmonica and fiddle player Don Meade and friends get together every Monday night for an Irish traditional music session in the back room of this historic Hell’s Kitchen bar/restaurant. Free admission. Musicians and singers welcome.

Special Session Guests:
August 11: Jason Cade - Jason, originally from North Carolina, is a silky-smooth fiddler adept at both Irish and old-time American music.
August 18: Dan Milner - One of the area’s best singers of traditional Irish folk songs, with a new recording out soon on Smithsonian Folkways
August 25: Sheila Maguire - High energy fiddling from one of Brooklyn’s finest Irish musicians
September 1: No session - Labor Day holiday
September 8: Frankie McCormick - Frankie, from Blackwatertown on the Armagh/Tyrone border, is one of the finest tenor banjo players around
September 15: Patrick Ourceau - Classy fiddling in the County Clare style from Patrick, visiting from his new home in Canada
September 22 : Tes Slominski - polkas, slides, jigs and reels from the finest Sliabh Luachra fiddle stylist in North America.

For more info, (212) 247-2562 or visit www.thelandmarktavern.org

Irish Traditional Music Concerts
at Glucksman Ireland House at New York University
ALL SHOWS 9:00 P.M. - $15 ADMISSION
free to Ireland House members and NYU students with ID

GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE at NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
1 Washington Mews – entrance on Fifth Avenue just north of Washington Square
For more information, call Ireland House at at (212) 998-3950 www.nyu.edu/pages/irelandhouse

September 12: Brian Conway and Brendan Dolan
Bronx native Brian Conway is the leading standard bearer of the celebrated County Sligo fiddle style in North America.  Brian was tutored as a boy by Sligo fiddle legend Martin Wynne and was also greatly influenced by the elegant style and impeccable technique of New York fiddle great Andy McGann. Brian himself has, in turn, tutored and inspired many younger New York fiddlers who are actively keeping this local tradition alive.  Brian’s discography includes a 1981 duet LP with fellow New York fiddler Tony DeMarco, a 2003 solo CD for Smithsonian Folkways and A Tribute to Andy McGann, a 2007 collaboration with button accordion icon Joe Burke and pianist Felix Dolan. Brian’s latest recording, Consider the Source, was released this year on Galway’s Cló Iar-Chonnachta label. Pianist Brendan Dolan (Felix’s son) and other musical friends will join Brian for this performance.

October 3: Mike and Mary Rafferty with Dónal Clancy
Flute player Mike Rafferty is an ageless marvel still going strong well into his eighth decade. A native of famously musical Ballinakill, County Galway, Mike is the finest living exponent of the old-time east Galway wooden flute style. He has had an enormous influence on many younger Irish-American musicians in the New York area, particularly his daughter Mary, who played the button accordion, flute and tin whistle for many years with the group Cherish the Ladies. Mike and Mary have made three superb duet recordings together, and Mike matched Mary’s solo CD with one of his own, Speed 78, which he recorded at age 78!  Guitar accompaniment will be provided by Mary’s husband Dónal Clancy, a son of Liam Clancy of the famed brother act and a member of the Waterford-based group Danú.

November 14: To be Announced   
Kathleen Collins, who was to have performed on this date, has been forced to postpone her concert with Gabe Donohue because of a broken hand. New performers will be announced soon.

December 5: John Whelan Group
Button accordion virtuoso John Whelan was born to Irish emigrant parents in Luton, England, a town north of London that was a hub of Irish music making in the 1960s and ‘70s.  He recorded his first LP, The Pride of Wexford, as a teenager and went on to establish a reputation as one of the finest button box players in Irish music before emigrating to the U.S. in 1980 and winning the senior All-Ireland championship in 1983. In the ‘80s, John formed an innovative duo with Bronx fiddle star Eileen Ivers and he played in the ‘90s with the genre-bending Kips Bay Ceili Band before putting together his own group and recording a string of discs for the Narada label. Now living in Connecticut, John is no longer touring as hard as he once did but he’s still a dynamic and highly energetic live performer. For this concert, he will be joined by guitarist Flynn Cohen and other musical guests.

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Kitty O'Neil
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Muldoon
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The Landmark Tavern
Historic Hell’s Kitchen bar/restaurant.
www.thelandmarktavern.org

O'Neill's Irish Pub
A favorite midtown bar/restaurant. Great food and great folks!
www.oneillsirishbar.com

Catskills Irish Arts Week
www.east-durham.org/irishartsweek/index.htm

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