Never Tire of the Road

Subject: Never Tire of the Road
From: GUEST,Henryp
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 08:50 AM

Andy Irvine has just completed a UK tour with Donal Lunny in Mozaik including the wonderful Nikola Parov too. A great band and new CD.
Next comes a US tour with Patrick Street and another new CD.
Then comes a solo tour of the UK. Never tire of the road indeed!

Patrick Street

19 Oct. Return to Camden Town Festival, The London Irish Centre, London N1 9XB [e-mail].
2 Nov. Lincoln University, Jefferson City MO Lincoln University Share in the Arts concert series
3/4 Nov. Austin Celtic Festival, Austin TX austincelts.org/festival/
7 Nov. Freight and Salvage, Berkeley CA http://www.thefreight.org/
8 Nov. Don Quixote's, Felton CA http://www.donquixotesmusic.info/
9 Nov. Alberta Street Pub, Portland OR http://www.myspace.com/albertastreetpub
14 Nov. Calvary Center for Culture and Community, Philadelphia PA http://www.calvary-center.org/
15 Nov. Site TBA, Fairfield CT   
16 Nov. Julian Studley Theater, New Paltz NY www.unisonarts.org
17 Nov. Memorial Hall, Shelburne Falls MA hilltownmusic.com

UK Solo tour

24 Nov. Hammersmith Arts Center
25 Nov. Traditions at the Tiger, Long Eaton
27 Nov. Ryburn Folk Club
28 Nov. Town Hall, Biddulph
29 Nov. The Shakespeare, Southport, Merseyside
30 Nov. Tolbooth, Stirling
1 Dec. Davy Lamp Folk Club, Washington Arts Centre
2 Dec. Fraser Centre, Milngavie
3 Dec. Glenfarg Village Folk Club, Glenfarg Hotel, Glenfarg, Perthshire
4 Dec. Leith Folk Club
5 Dec. Carrington Folk Club, Nottingham
7 Dec. Oxford Folk Club
8 Dec. The Globe, Glossop
9 Dec. Walthamshow Folk Club, London
10 Dec. The Cellars at Eatney, Southsea
11 Dec. Ringwood Folk Club
12 Dec. Baldock & Letchworth Folk Club
13 Dec. Lewes Folk Club
14 Dec. Ram Club, Claygate
27 Dec. - 1st Jan. 1st Woodford Folk Festival with Rens van der Zalm

Subject: RE: Never Tire of the Road
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 08:22 PM

So, when do we next get to see him in Sydney?

Subject: RE: Never Tire of the Road
From: GUEST,Andrez
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 06:36 AM

Yair, Melbourne too!

Subject: RE: Never Tire of the Road
From: GUEST,Henryp
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 08:25 AM

Good news, mates, if you can get to Queensland.

Andy, with Rens van der Zalm, will be at the Woodford Folk Festival 27th Dec 2007 to 1st Jan 2008. Woodford is an hour and a half north of Brisbane. The programme will be published on 1st Novemebr.

With two fiddlers, Rens van der Zalm and Bruce Molsky, in full flow, I thought Mozaik were the best Irish group I have heard. The old time and East European tunes were great too!

Happy new year!

Subject: RE: Never Tire of the Road
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 12:36 PM

That's grand!! All good things to them. Be happy for the health to keep on enjoying the road. (Infirmities can surely make it a chore.)

I always enjoyed what was done to "The Ballad Of Tom Joad" by them. It showed that Brits can do American folk songs tastefully and well---even after L. Donegan bastardized all that he did with them.

I must make sure to hear more of them!!!

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Never Tire of the Road
From: GUEST,Henryp
Date: 12 Oct 07 - 10:20 AM

I've been told that when he heard Woody Guthrie sing Tom Joad, Ernest Hemingway said, "If I had heard the song first, I wouldn't have needed to write the book."

Last week in Dublin, Andy Irvine performed his one man show about Woody Guthrie. It marked Woody's death 40 years ago and the proceeds went towards research into Huntington's Disease (previously known as Huntington's Chorea).

Subject: RE: Never Tire of the Road
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Oct 07 - 11:08 AM

Would that be the book that John Steinbeck wrote?

Subject: RE: Never Tire of the Road
From: GUEST,Henryp
Date: 12 Oct 07 - 12:29 PM

You're right. Hemingway said, "I never wrote that book!"

Subject: RE: Never Tire of the Road
From: Declan
Date: 12 Oct 07 - 03:36 PM

Art,

Don't want to turn this thread political but Mozaic consist of 1 Brit (sort of), an Irishman, a Dutchman, a Bulgarian (I think) and a man from the USA. A truly international band, they can turn their hands to many styles of folk music which I think is one of the great strengths of the band.

Subject: RE: Never Tire of the Road
From: Art Thieme
Date: 12 Oct 07 - 07:52 PM

I am sure they can! That's why I want to hear their music. "Tom Joad" is the only song I've ever heard Andy and Patrick do. And it surely caught my attention.

I do almost prefer their tune to the usual "John Hardy" tune woody put it to. Near the end of their rendition, Andy & Patrick DID insert an instrumental chorus of the original tune. A great touch I thought.

Folk music is no longer on the radio where I live, so I'm lucky to know of them at all given realities here and now.

Art

Subject: RE: Never Tire of the Road
From: Barry Finn
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 12:13 AM

I thought "Never Tire of the Road" was a song, that followed "You Picked a Fine Time To Leave Me Loose Wheel".

Barry

Subject: RE: Never Tire of the Road
From: Art Thieme
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 12:37 AM

When I retired, I got four of 'em --- with whitewalls.
Art

Subject: RE: Never Tire of the Road
From: Wolfgang
Date: 15 Oct 07 - 02:44 PM

"Never tire of the road" actually is a song by Andy Irvine.

I'm sure Henry knows that and used it as a thread title on purpose, but I'm less sure Barry knows that.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Never Tire of the Road
From: Barry Finn
Date: 15 Oct 07 - 03:26 PM

Thanks Wolfgang, Barry figured it was a song but he's never heard it, I have heard Andy though.

Barry