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03/08/2023
03/08/2023
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- Music & Dance,
- Parades
By Denise Foley
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How To Be Irish in Philly This Week, Part 2

The Philadelphia St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be greening up the city on Sunday, March 12, rain or shine (or as Parade Director Michael Bradley likes to say, “sunshine or liquid sunshine.” Dan Harrell, for decades head custodian at The Palestra and patron of the students at St. Malachy’s College in Belfast, will be leading the parade as grand marshal following a Mass at St. Patrick’s Church. Other parades on the weekend: Bucks County, Hamilton Township, […] Read More

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03/07/2023
03/07/2023
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- Music & Dance,
- Video
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- music,
- Rob Curto,
- Song of the Week
Song of the Week: Singer-songwriter Rob Curto Sings “Ersatz Angel”

Rob Curto is a current recipient of the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant from the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, which provides funding to further deepen his study of the Irish button accordion alongside his teacher and mentor, Billy McComiskey. Along with Irish traditional music, Rob, who lives in Philadelphia, performs a variety of international music, including Brazilian dance and Klezmer music. He often performs with local musicians, including Hollis Payer, John Byrne, and Tim Buchanan, […] Read More

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03/04/2023
03/04/2023
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- Music & Dance,
- People
By Frank Keel
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- events,
- karancasey,
- music,
- trad
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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03/01/2023
03/01/2023
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- Music & Dance,
- Video
By Denise Foley
Tags:
- music,
- songoftheweek
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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