Matt & Shannon Heaton play updated and traditional Irish music--songs, tunes, and stories from their travels around the world. For this Ewing, NJ matinee house concert, the Heatons will host a post-concert session. Bring your flutes and fiddles! For reservations: Lisa.Jean.Roth@gmail.com or 609-771-4112
Cork-born Theo Dorgan is a novelist, translator, editor, sailor and poet whose most recent collection of poems, Nine Bright Shiners (Dedalus Press, 2014) was an Irish Times notable book of the year. He has also won the O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry and Listowel Prize for Poetry. Theo Dorgan will read from Nine Bright Shiners, […]
Irish-American jazz powerhouse Tara O'Grady is releasing her 4th album Irish Bayou. This tribute to New Orleans features nine original songs in a gumbo of genres - from zydeco and rockabilly, to folk, funk, swing, jazz and blues - plus two covers, a modern take on Louis Armstrong's 1926 song 'Irish Black Bottom' and a […]
"Martin Hayes is one of the best fiddlers on the planet. Dennis Cahill is a subtle guitar master." NPR "Zen-like simplicity to reels and jigs; subtle, jazz-tinged guitar—it's pure, spare and intense." Gwen Orel, Time Out/New York County Clare fiddler Martin Hayes and Chicago guitarist Dennis Cahill are two of the world’s leading innovators in […]
Our second season of Debut Voices kicks off with a reading from a major new talent in Irish literature, Colin Barrett. Barrett’s powerful debut collection, Young Skins, is a stunning introduction to a singular voice in contemporary fiction. Presented by Irish Arts Center in association with A Public Space.
Gingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw presents A staged reading of MISALLIANCE In MISALLIANCE, Shaw examines a variety of unsuitable combinations. The social and the political collide with the romantic and the practical; convention clashes with innovation; parents spar with children and the kids let the elders have it in return; the aristocrats mate uncomfortably with […]
Join us for a special evening celebrating Prose’s writing career and exploring her relationship between art and literature. Presented in association with Ruda Beresford Dauphin. Moderated by BBC host and Booker Prize judge Frank Delaney
Hosted by Paul Muldoon; a monthly omnium-gatherum of words and music hosted by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon with music by Wayside Shrines and special guests from the world of literature and music.
A unique night of literature in performance with readings by Suzanne Bertish. Moderated by Honor Molloy.
Frank Delaney moderates a conversation with an esteemed panel of writers for a witty and engrossing literary salon on the topic of “International Spies” at Sebastian Junger and Scott Anderson’s The Half King. Moderated by BBC host and Booker Prize judge Frank Delaney. Presented in association with Ruda Beresford Dauphin. Location: The Half King, 505 W. […]
