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Intimate portrait of a musical great
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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...
Coronas’ 5th CD is summer No. 1
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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....
Architect Keely shunned fame, money
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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...
Gannon’s personality comes through
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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...
Ring of truth
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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...
Galway’s Regan keeps it simple
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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...
Author Tom Fleming dead at 90
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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...
Historical Society hosts McSorley’s
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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...
Relying on kindness of strangers, friends
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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...
Last call for a great bartender
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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 ...
Richardson on CD mission for Mercy
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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...
Craic was mighty during CIAW
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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...

 



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