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18 Jun 01 - 03:06 AM (#485822) Subject: Andy Irvine From: GUEST,Terry Blankenship Andy Irvine has a great web site with a 9 chapter auto biography that is very good. http://www.andyirvine.com/about.html He and Donal Lunny are apparently getting ready to tour together again. Terry
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18 Jun 01 - 03:28 AM (#485824) Subject: RE: Andy Irvine From: John J Try listening to him on Radio Scotland 810khz, Saturday nights, 9pm (may be 10pm) until midnight. Excellent programme. JJ |
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18 Jun 01 - 04:16 AM (#485843) Subject: RE: Andy Irvine From: Peter Kasin Thanks for the heads-up on his website! |
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18 Jun 01 - 07:38 AM (#485902) Subject: RE: Andy Irvine From: GUEST,Scabby Doug AT work Radio Scotland is also online at www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland |
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18 Jun 01 - 12:16 PM (#485995) Subject: RE: Andy Irvine From: Roger in Sheffield An Earlier Thread ANNOUNCE: Andy Irvine web site Unfortunately their tour don't visit here this time. |
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19 Jun 01 - 04:18 AM (#486761) Subject: RE: Andy Irvine From: Big Tim I read somewher that AI the great "Irish" folksinger was in fact born in London (nothing wrong with that, so was Shane MacGowan, well in Kent) but didn't set foot in Ireland until he was 21. True? and does it matter? |
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19 Jun 01 - 04:49 AM (#486771) Subject: RE: Andy Irvine From: Wolfgang from his autobiography on his new website: My mother was from Lisburn in County Antrim and my father had been born in Glasgow. .... I was born in London in 1942. He later tells he came to Dublin when he was 21 (though he doesn't explicitely say it was the first time). So it's true, but it hardly matters. I remember listening to him with an Englishman beside me and he said: Now that's the typical Irish tinker. I've seen him play about four times and I'd go for at least four more if opportunity comes. Wolfgang |
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19 Jun 01 - 06:49 AM (#486809) Subject: RE: Andy Irvine From: GeorgeH I thought we accepted that Irish music was international? What's the ratio by which Irish emigrants outnumber the population of the island?? Also I've heard it said that, when the interest in Irish music first 'revivied' (in the '50s) the US Irish musicians were an important source; also that the current "general" image of Irish music owes more to the London Irish community than to anything native to the island. Certainaly neither of those assertions is the whole truth, but I don't believe either of them is without truth, either. However at the end of the day Wolfgang is right "it hardly matters" . . A great person and an innovative musician. G. |