Aoife Clancy at the Hurdy Gurdy (NJ)

Subject: Aoife Clancy at the Hurdy Gurdy (NJ)
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 01:51 PM

With St. Patrick's day upon us, it is fitting that the Hurdy Gurdy
Folk Music will get into the spirit of the holiday by presenting
Aoife Clancy and special guest McDermott's Handy on Saturday March 3

Aoife Clancy brings a refreshing new voice to folk music, one that
ranges from traditional Irish songs to ballads and contemporary folk.
Aoife comes from the small town of Carrick-on-Suir, in County
Tipperary, Ireland, where her musical career began at an early age.
Her father Bobby Clancy of the legendary Clancy Brothers, placed a
guitar in her hands at age ten, and by age fourteen was playing with
her father in nearby pubs.

She later moved to Dublin, where she studied drama at the Gaiety
School of Acting. After a season at the Gaiety, Aoife was invited to
do a tour of Australia. There she performed at festivals and concerts
sharing the stage with some of Ireland's greatest performers,
including Christy Moore and the Furey Brothers. Her performances also
include a Caribbean cruises with the Clancy Brothers, the Milwaukee
Irish Festival and a seven week tour of the United States with the
renowned Paddy Noonan Show.

In 1995 Aoife was asked to join the acclaimed group "Cherish the
Ladies", which is one of the most sought-after Irish American groups
in history. For the past four years Aoife has toured extensively
doing no less than two hundred dates a year throughout the United
States and Europe. She has been a featured soloist with orchestras
such as the Boston Pops and Cincinnati Pops and ,while performing
with Cherish the Ladies, collaborated with the Boston Pops on their
Grammy nominated Celtic album.

As one reviewer remarked, "she has a breadth of styles that make her
concerts fascinating. Her singing would melt packed ice with it's
warmth and richness" - Mike Jackson, Canberra Times. On Aoife's
second Rego solo album, "Soldiers and Dreams," Al Riess, from Dirty
Linen magazine, wrote: "Solders and Dreams has a contemporary-meets-
traditional-music feel and Clancy's smooth, expressive singing works
both ways- ensuring a successful merger of the two approaches and an
enjoyable listening pleasure".

Opening for Aoife will be McDermott's Handy -- Kathy DeAngelo and
Dennis Gormley, who have been performing Irish music together since
1978. Strong vocals backed by Celtic harp, fiddle, guitar, flute,
whistle, bouzouki, banjo, mandolin, bodhran, bass and keyboards

Aoife Clancy and McDermott's Handy will appear at the Hurdy Gurdy,
located in the Central Unitarian Church at 156 Forest Avenue in
Paramus, on Saturday March 3.

Tickets for this pre-St. Patrick's Day celebration are now on sale
through our website at www.hurdygurdyfolk.org or at Brier Rose Books
located at 450 Cedar Lane in Teaneck, New Jersey. Tickets are $25
($22 for Hurdy Gurdy members).

Subject: RE: Aoife Clancy at the Hurdy Gurdy (NJ)
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 03 Mar 07 - 03:05 PM

Tonight!!!

Subject: RE: Aoife Clancy at the Hurdy Gurdy (NJ)
From: David Ingerson
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 01:58 AM

Wish I could have been there!

Cheers,

David