March 2023
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Setting the Bar High
This year’s Philadelphia St. Patrick’s Day grand marshal, Dan Harrell, set the bar high for all future GMs. In fashion, with his custom-made jacket and his embroidered cap, he is certainly a fancy Dan. To top it off, yesterday he threw a fundraiser for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade at the New Deck Tavern in University City. The event started with a 0.317k Run, Jog or Walk (without spilling your drink) contest, going around the […] Read More
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Singer Karan Casey Set to Perform in Wilmington
Karan Casey, one of Ireland’s preeminent female singer-songwriters, may hail from County Cork, but she’s still a Philly home girl at heart. Casey, who just returned to the US for a concert tour in support of her acclaimed new record, Nine Apples of Gold (Crow Valley Records), that will bring her to the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, DE, on March 7 and to the Susquehanna Folk Society in Harrisburg on March 8, lived in […] Read More
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Villanova Senior Named 2023 Philadelphia Mary from Dungloe
AnneMarie Caffrey Mentei, a 21-year-old Villanova University senior was crowned the 2023 Mary from Dungloe at the Donegal Ball in early December at The Irish Center in Philadelphia. She accepted her crown from Olivia Lisowski, who wore it for several years because she was unable to travel to Ireland for the international event because of the Covid pandemic. AnneMarie is an Irish Studies major, and is minoring in Peace and Justice and Spanish. At Villanova […] Read More
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Song of the Week: The Parting Glass by Meghan Davis and Alex Keller
Meghan Davis, 2012 Philadelphia Mary from Dungloe who went on to be crowned the International Mary from Dungloe in Ireland, is a rarity: a harpist who sings while she plays. These days, this mother of three is performing and producing recordings with her husband, cellist Alex Keller, whom she met in 2009 when the two were getting their Masters degrees in music at Temple University. Their debut album, The Nearness of You, was released in […] Read More
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Welcome Spring With a Raspberry-Rhubarb Tray Bake
Meteorological spring, the season determined by annual temperature cycles, begins March 1 in the Northern Hemisphere. Those of us who live in the Northeast really can’t complain about dreadful winter weather this year, but the idea that spring has officially arrived is exciting, nonetheless. And now that it’s here, we have some lovely things to look forward to — longer days, warmer weather, and for cooks, baking with traditional spring fruits and vegetables, rhubarb in particular, […] Read More