Tag Archives: Reviews

Review: “Shamrock City”

The Philly-based band tackles its most ambitious project yet, a triumphant concept album based on the Irish copper mining rats of Butte, Montana.

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Cormac De Barra and Moya Brennan

Review: Moya Brennan and Cormac De Barra at the Sellersville Theater

De Barra and Brennan presented the singer’s well-known repertoire in a new light, and performed many new tunes off the pair’s CD “Voices & Harps.”

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Patrick Fitzgerald and Cara Seymour

Review: Gibraltar: An Adaptation after James Joyce’s Ulysses

The play, focusing on characters Leopold and Molly Bloom, is a tender and complex love story. It has its final Bloomsday week showing at Plays and Players on Saturday. Challenging? Yes. Worth seeing? You bet.

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Review: “800 Voices,” by Danny Ellis

A former student in the notorious Artane Industrial School, Ellis found peace and redemption in music … and the transcending power of the human spirit.

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Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Brendan Begley

Review: “A Moment of Madness,” by Brendan Begley and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh

They’re two masterfully expressive musicians at the top of their game. The new CD is essential listening.

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Skull Bashing

Review: A Skull in Connemara

This dark and hilarious Irish play from the Lantern Theatre Company will tickle your funny bone. Just watch out for flying bone shards.

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A Galway Afternoon

Review: “A Galway Afternoon”

The powerful, colorful personality of Joe Madden shines through on this album with his famous daughter Joanie. Recorded in County Galway just a few months before his tragic death, it gives us something wonderful to remember him by.

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The Blue Dress

Review: “The Blue Dress” by Shannon Heaton

Aided by a strong supporting cast, flutist Heaton turns in one of the best Irish traditional performances of the year on her new CD.

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