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09 May 05 - 05:12 PM (#1481068) Subject: Johnny McEvoy From: GUEST,Leo Hurley Does anyone know how to reach Johnny McEvoy? Is he still performing? I'm particularly in speaking with him regarding an event in New Jersey, just outside NYC, for late October or the first Saturday in November. |
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09 May 05 - 05:49 PM (#1481088) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: GUEST,Tír Eoghain He appeared here a couple of years back. They should know how to reach him. Good luck |
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09 May 05 - 06:36 PM (#1481123) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: GUEST Mudcat isn't a very good place to track down Irish musicians. This site is used primarily by Anglo sorts of folk both sides the pond, and the few folk knowledgeable about Irish trad aren't here that regularly anymore. Since you may not find too many Irish trad pure droppers about these parts when you need them, I'd go straight to the main web resource for Irish traditional music, and post a message to the IR-TRAD Mailing List. I'm certain you'll get an avalanche of responses on how to reach yer man there. |
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09 May 05 - 06:46 PM (#1481132) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: GUEST Johnny McEvoy isn't a Trad musician. So Trad musicians may not know all that much about him, in that case. I think the problem here might be, that there aren't too many Johnny McEvoy pure droppers around these parts when you need them. I'm sure Catríona, Antoinette, Grainne or Lisa would be delighted to help you out, were you to contact them. At least, then you wont have to go through an avalanche of responses by people claiming to know how reach yer man there |
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09 May 05 - 07:39 PM (#1481177) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: GUEST,06:36 PM Astoundingly enough, the folks at IR-TRAD actually know one or two musicians who aren't trad. Even some o' the Country Oirish ones. Imagine that. |
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10 May 05 - 12:30 AM (#1481310) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: GUEST,06.46 Or you could mail his record company directly, Leo. Fat lot of help you are, 06.36 You have now moved from describing McEvoy as being Irish Trad to being Irish Country. ... and shown you're a bigoted bastard/bitch to boot. Stop complaining about the resources of this site, and get your finger out... Literally |
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10 May 05 - 12:42 AM (#1481315) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: Peace http://www.dolphin-dara.ie/cont.html Form there to contact his record company. They in turn might give you the e-mail of his management or him. Luck to you. BM |
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10 May 05 - 12:50 AM (#1481320) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: GUEST Just in time, brucie. Well done |
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10 May 05 - 02:32 AM (#1481365) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: Big Al Whittle The Irish Post did a feature on him a while back. they are generally helpful. He was long time friends with the Leeds agent John Wall 01132530983 sorry I have nothing more definite or recent. have you tried the Hot Press year Book, they have a lot of music industry names? best of luck! |
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10 May 05 - 08:49 AM (#1481561) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: GUEST,06:36 PM Hey 06:46 PM, I think you need to calm down. I haven't insulted anyone, and there is nothing bigoted about pointing out that Mudcat is not THE web resource for Irish music. There is nothing bigoted AT ALL about telling a poster coming here for information, that this website is used more by people from the Brit folk side. All I did was suggest to the original poster the information he was seeking could likely be tracked down more quickly through an Irish music web resource, which I provided a link to for his convenience. What in god's name is bigoted about that? There is nothing wrong with this website being largely dominated by people most interested in the British and Anglo American folk traditions (there ain't much about blues music here either, and there are much better online forums for the discussion of American blues, for instance), or with people knowing that fact, or with someone pointing out that fact to a person who is requesting information about music/musicians who aren't from the Brit or Anglo American folk traditions. Most of the big online resources for Irish music don't link to this website for a reason--and that reason is it isn't an Irish music website. I would have given the same advice to someone coming here looking for information about a Breton musician. Or a Cape Breton musician. That doesn't make this a bad website, it just makes it oriented to a specific genre of music, like most music websites are. One of the ways we can be helpful to people coming here looking for information, is to tell them where they are most likely to find the information they are looking for elsewhere on the web, when we think it likely no one here knows the answer. That is being helpful, not bigoted. There was no reason for you to go ballistic over my initial response, or my humorous response to your subsequent attack on my initial response regarding "Country Oirish" music. That was a reference to posting a request to the IR-TRAD list about a genre of music the trad pure droppers regularly make good natured fun of on their mailing list. It isn't a big deal. The Irish music community (from trad to jazz to classical to country) is quite small in Ireland and Britain, and people know each other. I'm guessing since the editor of Irish Music Magazine is one of the regulars over on the IR-TRAD mailing list, along with a few very knowledgeable contributors (like Fintan from Claddagh Records), that they might know off-hand who Johnny's booking agent is. Sure Leo Hurley can contact the record company, and try and track down the booking agent that way, but as most everyone knows, that can be a very slow way to go. If there is a resource where Leo can go type in his question nearly as easily and quickly as he can here at Mudcat, why wouldn't he take advantage of it when there is a good chance someone might know the answer, or know where to direct him quickly to get one? Why such defensiveness--why this "turf" bullshit Guest 06:46 PM? Johnny McEvoy is an Irish musician. I suggested Leo go to an Irish music website and ask his question, thinking if he wants to book Johnny he probably is looking for the quickest way to reach him. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out, now does it? Guest 06:46 PM, it appears you are more interested in flaming a poster who you disagree with (and being an asshole about it by name calling and trying to ratchet this thread up to the level of the incendiary Cyber-Troubles) rather than helping Leo find the musician he is looking for. So you go for it. You're doing really well on that count so far. |
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10 May 05 - 06:02 PM (#1481973) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: GUEST Whereas you've done fuck all and only griped |
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10 May 05 - 06:16 PM (#1481981) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: GUEST,ncd Ah c'mon! What a way to respond to someone who offered genuine help. Mudcat is a great forum catering for it's own genre. Other forums are used much more widely by pro/am Irish musicians. That is a fact. It isn't the centre of everyones universe. |
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11 May 05 - 03:12 AM (#1482237) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: Big Al Whittle Interesting sort of thread. in a way the sort of nitpicking (no offence inteded to either gentleman) about what sort of artist JM is, defines so much of what is different about the english and the irish folk music. I love the way JM can do trad stuff like Shores of amerikay and slieve gallon braes and then do a Johnny cash thing. Its a sort of segue that he has passed on to Daniel O'Donnel and others. in England it would be almost unthinkable for Cliff to sing the lincolnshire poacher. its one of the things that makes Irish music a living culture , the fact that very mainstream pop artists are within a hairsbreadth of trad material. And this means there is a format that keeps ordinary folk in touch with trad material. In England the only people doing trad material do the funny voices and funny guitar styles - certainly the only people that get played on the radio! value what you've got, don't argue about it! all the best to all parties in the squabble and particularly Johnny MacEvoy Big al Whittle |
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01 Jun 05 - 08:58 AM (#1497320) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: GUEST,Robert Butler Hello, Johnny McEvoy's management is Noel Carty Promotions Po Box 5241 Dublin 14 phone 6767449 or Lr Churchtown Road Dublin 14 phone 2963363 Hope this of use to you. Robert Butler rjbutler@wicklowtoday.com |
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17 Aug 22 - 12:29 PM (#4150474) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: GUEST Jmljmccarthy@gmail.com |
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18 Aug 22 - 04:56 PM (#4150587) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: Seamus Kennedy Johnny is on Facebook. |
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19 Aug 22 - 03:03 AM (#4150615) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: Jack Campin Is this the same guy who wrote one of the songs in the Rebels Ceilidh Song Book, early 50s? And he's still performing? |
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19 Aug 22 - 03:47 AM (#4150618) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: The Sandman Johnny was born in 1945, one of four children with two sisters and a brother to John and Emily McEvoy. His father was a bus driver and his mother was a housewife. Johnny's father was not initially supportive of his musical career: "It wasn't a bad relationship. We just seemed to have no relationship... until, I became famous." His mother, by contrast, was supportive, and suggested that he record Mursheen Durkin.[1] He met his wife Odette in 1967 and they married in 1970. The song The Planter's daughter is written about her and references her supposed ancestry from Strongbow. They have two children: Jonathan and Alice. McEvoy has admitted to finding fame "scary" and believes that it triggered his manic depression, an issue he first spoke about on Gay Byrne's talk show in the early 1990s. He gave up drinking in 1979: "Giving up was the easiest thing I ever did and it might have saved my life."[2] During his wife's illness, he cancelled all tour, recording and travel plans. To stay occupied, he wrote a songbook[3] recounting the songs he has sung over the years, both his own compositions and covers. His wife helped by typing out song lyrics. Odette died of ovarian cancer on 12th November 2013. [1][3] He now lives in Greystones and is in a relationship with Mary.[1] Career He was initially part of a duo called "Ramblers Two", the other member being fellow art student Michael Crotty. Their fame was enhanced when they supported the Rolling Stones when they came to Ireland in 1965 in the Adelphi cinema.[2] After a stint touring Ireland and England in the mid-sixties, the two went their separate ways. Johnny McEvoy's first big break came in late 1966 when he recorded "Mursheen Durkin," an old ballad from the west of Ireland.[1] It topped the charts at number one for three consecutive weeks. It was followed by "The Boston Burglar" which also reached number one in the charts. His first tour to the U.S. was in 1967, highlighted by a concert at New York City's Carnegie Hall. It was at this stage he had his third number one Hit with the song "Nora" (a version of When You and I Were Young, Maggie)," from Seán O'Casey's famous play The Plough and the Stars.[4] He later formed a band in the 1970s. He wrote his first song "Long Before Your Time." It too reached number one, becoming his fourth and to date last number one in the Irish charts.[4] He went on to write many more songs, many of which have become standards that have been recorded by other artists including "Long Before Your Time," "Michael," "Going To California," "The Ballad of John Williams," "Richman's Garden," "Never Learned To Dance," and "The Ballad of Anne Frank." In 2010 a documentary on the life and times of Johnny McEvoy, "For the Poor and for the Gentry," was televised. For the production of the documentary McEvoy re-recorded his first number one hit, most popular and biggest selling song, "Mursheen Durkin," a collaboration recording with Sharon Shannon and her Big Band.[5] The renewal of the classic was also included on a double album and DVD "For the poor and for the Gentry - The Definitive Johnny McEvoy," which was released later that year. Live performances Aside from an illustrious recording career, Johnny McEvoy is perhaps best known for his live performances and tours in Ireland and on the international circuit. His renown is worldwide and he has spent many years travelling and performing. In concert, he sings and plays acoustic guitar. In the 1970s, he toured with a large band, which included two other guitarists, bass, keyboard and fiddle.[6] In later years, he was often accompanied by only one other guitarist, such as Philip O'Duffy.[7] He typically plays a combination of his own compositions and traditional songs such as Carrickfergus, The Boston Burglar and The Leaving of Liverpool.[8] i believe he still performs, he was born in 1945, so if he wrote a song in the early fifies he would have done it while still at primary school. he is in my opinion a good singer, i prefer his trad repertoire, but that in no way takes away from his ability as a singer, just my prefered material |
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19 Aug 22 - 12:10 PM (#4150653) Subject: RE: Johnny McEvoy - how to contact him? From: GUEST,groovy Please recommend a trad album by Johnny, Sandman. |