AOIFE CLANCY & MCDERMOTT’S HANDY AT THE HURDY GURDY THIS SATURDAY MARCH 3!
I hope your have marked your calendar with a reminder that the Aoife Clancy and special guests McDermott’s Handy will be appearing at the Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Club this Saturday night, March 3!
With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, this is a great way to kick off the celebration! Plus, expect a few musical surprises from Aoife!
The show begins promptly at 8pm. The Hurdy Gurdy is located in the Central Unitarian Church at 156 Forest Avenue in Paramus, NJ. You can visit our website at www.hurdygurdyfolk.org to download a flyer. If you have an opportunity, perhaps you could post a copy at your local library, community center, or place of business. Please help us spread the word!!
Aoife Clancy (pronounced “Eefa”) brings a refreshing new voice to folk music, one that ranges from traditional Irish songs to ballads and contemporary folk. Aoife comes from the small town of Carrick-on-Suir,in Co Tipperary, Ireland, where her musical career began at an early age. Her father Bobby Clancy of the legendary Clancy Brothers, placed a guitar in her hands at age ten, and by age fourteen she was playing with her father in nearby pubs.
She later moved to Dublin, where she studied drama at the Gaiety School of Acting. After a season at the Gaiety, Aoife was invited to do a tour of Australia. There she performed at festivals and concertssharing the stage with some of Ireland’s greatest performers, including Christy Moore and the Furey Brothers. Her performances also include Caribbean cruises with the Clancy Brothers, the Milwaukee Irish Festival and a seven week tour of the United States with the renowned Paddy Noonan Show.
In 1995 Aoife was asked to join the acclaimed group “Cherish theLadies“, which is one of the most sought-after Irish American groups in history. For the past four years Aoife has toured extensively doing no less than two hundred dates a year throughout the United States and Europe. She has been a featured soloist with orchestras such as the Boston Pops and Cincinnati Pops and, while performing with Cherish the Ladies, collaborated with the Boston Pops on their Grammy nominated Celtic album.
As one reviewer remarked, “she has a breadth of styles that make her concerts fascinating. Her singing would melt packed ice with it’s warmth and richness” – Mike Jackson, Canberra Times.
On Aoife’s second Rego solo album, “Soldiers and Dreams,” Al Riess, from Dirty Linen magazine, wrote: “Solders and Dreams has a contemporary-meets-traditional-music feel and Clancy’s smooth,expressive singing works both ways- ensuring a successful merger of the two approaches and an enjoyable listening pleasure”.
Opening for Aoife will be McDermott’s Handy. Kathy DeAngelo and Dennis Gormley are the husband-wife duo who have been performing traditional Irish music together in the Delaware Valley (SouthJersey/Philadelphia region) as McDermott’s Handy since 1979. These talented multi-instrumentalists put on a super concert and combine their strong vocals and equally strong backing accompaniment with a commanding stage presence that comes from hundreds of performances in front of all kinds of audiences.
A wonderful evening of music is in store!
Also
, tickets for ourspecial May 19th concert featuring the
legendary Irish Fiddler Kevin Burke will be going on sale! Kevin Burke, fiddler with such influential groups at the Bothy Band, Patrick Street, and Celtic Fiddle Fest) is doing a short tour with guitarist Cal Scott. This will be Kevin’s ONLY area appearance and advance tickets are highly recommended! (The room seats 100 people – a real intimate evening with a music legend!)We look forward to seeing you on Saturday! Don’t be late!!!
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