Music & Dance
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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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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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By Denise FoleyTags:
How to be Irish in Philly This Month, Part One
You know you’re Irish when you hear a patron in a pub ask the bartender, “Are you all ready for March Madness?” and you’re pretty sure he’s not talking about basketball. While there will be plenty of college hoops in March, the real madness for the Delaware Valley’s millions of Irish, Irish-Americans, and Irish wannabes will be in the pubs, on stage, and in streets as dozens of Irish performers big and small fill every […] Read More
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