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:
June 15: Brendan Dolan - Not just one of the top pianists in Irish music, but a class flute player as well.
June 22: Tom Dunne: great, old-time stylist on fiddle and button accordion from Co. Wexford.
June 29: Mike Considine - Recently arrived from London, and one of the best guitarists and bouzouki backers in Irish music.
July 6: Joey Mullen - great old-time button accordion stylist.

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
 
MAY 8: PADDY KEENAN and JOHN WALSH
Paddy Keenan’s spectacular virtuosity on the uilleann pipes is legendary.  He achieved international renown in the 1970s with the Bothy Band, a ground-breaking group that revolutionized the sound of Irish traditional music and helped win it a new worldwide audience. Paddy’s piping prowess has not faded over the decades and his talent for up-tempo improvisation must be heard to be believed.  Paddy is also one of the great exponents of the “low whistle,” an instrument with an intimate, breathy tone that makes it a perfect vehicle for slow airs.  Paddy will be accompanist by John Walsh, a superb Kilkenny-born guitarist who now lives in Yonkers and has released his own solo recording, Aon, Do, Tri.

JUNE 5: MIKE RAFFERTY, WILLY KELLY and DONAL CLANCY
Mike Rafferty of Ballinakill, east Galway has been living in New Jersey since Truman was president but you'd never know that from his accent or the way he plays the finest old-time Irish music on his "timber flute." Sixty-one years in America have not erased his lilting brogue or altered his gently propulsive, seductively melodic flute style. After making three great recordings with his button accordionist daughter Mary and a solo CD, "Speed 78," Mike returned to the studio with New Jersey fiddler Willie Kelly for a duet recording that we will celebrate at this concert. Willie was a student of the late, great Limerick fiddler Martin Mulvihill and remins a devotee of the kind of plaintive, laid-back music played by oldtimers in Ireland's west. As on the new disc, Mike and Willie will be accompanied by guitarist Donal Clancy, Mike's son-in-law and a member of the great Irish group Danu.

September 18:  Mattie and Deirdre Connolly
Mattie Connolly was born in the USA but moved with his family at a young age to County Monaghan before returning to New York. An All-Ireland champion on the uilleann pipes, he’s also a fine singer and bassist who is fondly remembered by a generation of Irish New Yorkers who danced to the music of his Majestic Showband in the 1960s and ‘70s. Mattie’s daughter Deirdre sang and played the flute for several years with the famed Cherish the Ladies ensemble and has also released her own solo recording. This concert will celebrate the release of Mattie and Deirdre’s forthcoming CD of father-and-daughter duets.

October  2:  Captain Mackey’s Goatskin and String Band
Featuring the renowned Cork City singer and bouzouki player Jimmy Crowley, “Captain Mackey's Goatskin and Stringband” takes its name from that of a 19th-century Irish-American Fenian hero and a great Cork folk band of the 1960’s, “Paddy's Goatskin and Stringband,” a group that had a big influence on Jimmy's musical career. Jimmy formed the new group with singer and bodhrán player Máirtín de Cogáin, a fellow Corkman and fellow Irish speaker who was a founder of The Fuschia Band. They are joined  by Texas fiddler Valerie Plested and guitarist Don Penzien and, to quote Jimmy, “’Tis a  mighty sound, indeed!”

November 20:  Kathleen Collins and Gabe Donohue
New Yorker Kathleen Collins was the first American-born fiddler to win a senior All-Ireland Championship, and her 1970s debut LP on the Shanachie label is still regarded as one of the great solo fiddle recordings of modern times. Over the past couple of decades, Kathleen has been better known as a teacher of Irish set and ceili dancing, but she returned to the studio to release a long-awaited second fiddle recording, My Book of Songs. As on that recording, Kathleen will be joined at this concert by guitarist, singer and keyboard player Gabe Donohue.

December 11:  Dónal Maguire
A native of County Louth, Dónal is a top-notch tenor banjo and mandolin player and one of the leading exponents of unaccompanied Irish traditional singing in the English language. After moving to England as a teenager, Dónal developed his style and repertoire as a member of the London Singers Club alongside folk legends who included Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and John Faulkner. His 1979 recording The Star of Sunday’s Well remains one of the classics of the Irish folk revival. He has since issued several other excellent recordings, most recently Michael Davitt: The Forgotten Hero?, in which he tells the story of the great Irish nationalist and Land League leader in song.

LINKS:

Marlow Palleja, Art Direction Design, and Production
An absolutely all around wonderful Art Director and Designer...;-)
www.marlowpallejadesign.com

Kitty O'Neil
19th-century New York variety stage dancer Kitty O'Neil.
For more information on Kitty, go to:
Kitty O'Neill

Muldoon
He's a solid man...
For more information on Muldoon, go to:
Muldoon

The Landmark Tavern
Historic Hell’s Kitchen bar/restaurant.
www.thelandmarktavern.org

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

Ceol agus Rince calendar
www.my.calendars.net/ceolagusrince

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