| New! Irish in
America CD!
Includes "McNally's Row of
Flats" as featured in The New York Times bestseller
Rats by Robert
Sullivan. |
Five All-Ireland Champions plus
a host of superb Irish and American musicians and singers join in an
historical salute to the Irish who helped build the United
States. |
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Select Concerts, Lectures
and Workshops in Europe and the
USA |
- EUROPE - Ireland: Cobh Maritime
Song Festival, Inishowen International Ballad & Folk Song
Seminar, Aonach Paddy O'Brien, Goilin Singers Club Dublin.
Scotland: Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama. England:
Sidmouth International Festival, Cecil Sharp House, Mersey River
Festival, Warwick Folk Festival, Broadstairs Folk Week, Lancaster
Maritime Festival. Wales: Llantrisant Folk Club. France: Brest
2000. Denmark: Korsor Maritime Festival. Germany: Festival Musik
Maritim Vegesack.
- UNITED STATES - National
Maritime Museum, San Francisco. The New-York Historical Society,
Lincoln Center's Roots of American Music Festival, Statue of
Liberty National Monument, New York University's Ireland House,
Castle Clinton National Monument, OpSail 2000 New York. New
Bedford Whaling Museum. Folklore Society of Greater Washington.
Texas Maritime Museum. New Jersey Historical Commission.
Connecticut Historical Society, Mystic Seaport, Danbury Irish
Fair. Champlain Valley Festival.
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Millions of
Irish left the Old World for the New, some by choice and others
of necessity. From the Glens of Antrim to the Hills of Kerry, from
Derry and Queenstown, from Dublin City via Liverpool Town they
climbed aboard the packet ships. Some settled in the great cities of
New York, Boston and Philadelphia. More moved North and South and
West, digging mud and coal and gold, laying rails and felling trees,
making America great. Dan Milner & Bob Conroy
sing their songs and the songs of the seamen who brought
them across the Western Ocean. The true mark of a great story teller
is that the listener feels he or she is there as events unfold;
Dan Milner is a ballad singer of that ilk. The 5-string banjo
and open-key guitar playing of Bob Conroy are stunningly
poignant. Together, these veterans from New York's South Street
Seaport Museum present traditional songs in unparalled performance.
