The Best Medicine, written and performed by Babs Davy, co-founder of the Five Lesbian Brothers, tells the story of a Midwestern Catholic girl living in a 1960’s suburban ranch house, where family mental instability is ignored and goes untreated, save for Sunday Mass and Fleischmann’s blended whiskey. The tale is told by two characters—one an […]
IRISH ARTS CENTER PRESENTS EDGES OF LIGHT, JUNE 1-3 A New Collaboration Between Iconic Dancer Colin Dunne and Celebrated Musicians Tóla Custy, Maeve Gilchrist and David Power, Presented in Association with Ireland’s Music Network Irish Arts Center is pleased to present Edges of Light, a new collaboration between Irish dance legend Colin Dunne, fiddler Tóla Custy, harpist […]
IRISH ARTS CENTER PRESENTS EDGES OF LIGHT, JUNE 1-3 A New Collaboration Between Iconic Dancer Colin Dunne and Celebrated Musicians Tóla Custy, Maeve Gilchrist and David Power, Presented in Association with Ireland’s Music Network Irish Arts Center is pleased to present Edges of Light, a new collaboration between Irish dance legend Colin Dunne, fiddler Tóla Custy, harpist […]
Trad and contemporary Irish music punctuated by Colin Dunne's legendary percussive dancing—Edges of Light comes to New York for three nights only. Colin Dunne dance Maeve Gilchrist harp David Power uilleann pipes Tóla Custy fiddle
Gaelic Storm Monday, June 5, 2017 Showtime @ 8:00 PM / Doors open @ 7:00 PM Tickets $22 in advance, $25 day of show http://highlineballroom.com/show/2017/06/05/gaelic-storm/ After nearly two decades and more than 3,000 live shows, Gaelic Storm — the chart-topping, multi-national Celtic band — is looking sharper than ever with their latest release, Matching Sweaters. The […]
“'The Galway Girl' is the one thing I’m sure to be remembered for. I owe a lot of that to Mundy … the biggest hit was his version.” —Steve Earle “Amazing gigs that has us eatin’ the songs straight from his palm, he’s a gift.” —Damien Dempsey One of Ireland’s most exciting live performers returns […]
Tunes of Old East Galway - concert Sunday June 11th, 2017 from 2-3pm, Summit Public Library Lesl Harker, Irish flute & Jerry O'Sullivan, Uilleann pipes Featuring the music of the late, great National Heritage Fellow - the Mighty Mike Rafferty, 1926-2011
Once again Bloomsday is almost upon us. What is it about Molly, Bloom and Stephen and the exhilarating but daunting multitudinousness of Ulysses that energises people all over the world to celebrate 16 June 1904 Dublin? The allure could well be that Ulysses is great art, and great art intentionally discomfits conventional wisdom, jogs perceptual […]
“Literature deals with the ordinary; the unusual and extraordinary belong to journalism.” James Joyce Join us where journalism, literature and Joyce meet at the Federal Hall on June 13th for our 8th Annual Bloomsday Celebration featuring keynote speaker David McCraw, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of the New York Times. "Two Facts Walked into a Bar…Truly […]
Origin Theatre Company stages the 2nd annual Bloomsday Breakfast at Bloom’s Tavern, 208 East 58th Street, in midtown on June 16 beginning at 7:30am. Featuring a rollicking roster of writers, actors and luminaries from in and out of the New York’s Irish community, the site-specific breakfast-performance rekindles a New York literary-theatrical tradition. “Origin’s 2nd Bloom […]
