Culture
Intimate portrait of a musical great
Tommy Peoples’s new album is “Recorded at Fiddler’s Hearth,” while his “Ó Am Go hAm” is a fiddle tutor and tunebook of 383 pages. By Daniel Neely T...
August 01, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Coronas’ 5th CD is summer No. 1
The Coronas, who improve a few of their songs by translating them for Irish-language compilation albums, will tour Canada and the U.S. in the fall....
July 31, 2017
by Colleen Taylor
Culture
Architect Keely shunned fame, money
The recently restored St. Brigid’s Church in the East Village, Manhattan, was one of Patrick Keely’s earliest projects. PHOTO: PETER MCDERMOTT By G...
July 28, 2017
by Geoffrey Cobb
Culture
Gannon’s personality comes through
Eileen Gannon teaches at St. Louis Irish Arts, an organization her parents have led for decades Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Eileen Gannon i...
July 27, 2017
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Ring of truth
Thomas Fleming, who has died, was a prolific novelist and historian. He also wrote, in his late 70s, “Mysteries of My Father: An Irish-American Mem...
July 27, 2017
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Galway’s Regan keeps it simple
Niamh Regan should not to be missed in 2017, says the Irish Times. Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor Galway Girls strike again. Niamh Regan is latest...
July 26, 2017
by Colleen Taylor
Culture
Author Tom Fleming dead at 90
Author Tom Fleming By Ray O’Hanlon The death has taken place of novelist and historian Thomas Fleming, one of the most prolific Irish Americans wri...
July 25, 2017
by Ray O'Hanlon
Culture
Historical Society hosts McSorley’s
McSorley’s, like the AIHS, is a New York institution By Irish Echo Staff “Success in the City” bills itself the young professionals’ wing of the Am...
July 24, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Relying on kindness of strangers, friends
Team Ireland has lots of enthusiastic family support. In the category of, for now at least, “not many people know that”: Ireland has an internation...
July 21, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Last call for a great bartender
George Kornienko. By Pat Fenton I’m thinking of George Kornienko a/k/a “George the Bartender” tonight. The bar was called Rocky Sullivan’s. It was ...
July 20, 2017
by Pat Fenton
Culture
Richardson on CD mission for Mercy
Haley Richardson. By Daniel Neely I recently dug into “Trad Teens: Music for Mercy,” a fundraising CD produced by the great Haley Richardson. For t...
July 19, 2017
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Craic was mighty during CIAW
The final concert during the Catskills Irish Arts Week. By Daniel Neely It had been several years since I’d been up to the Catskills Irish Arts Wee...
July 18, 2017
by Daniel Neely