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The Irish in Country: Putting the Celtic Fringe on the Music Charts
Just hours before winning a Grammy, country singer Kathy Mattea reminisced about her first meeting…
Yankee Doodle Irish
This is a song about George M. Cohan. CO-HAN, not Coen. And yet, when I…
Black ’47: The Clancy Brothers of the 90’s?
As Larry Kirwan, the wiry lead guitarist and singer drags out this melodramatic emigration song,…
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The Irish in Country | Donegal’s Danny Boy
What exactly is it about singing sensation Daniel O’Donnell that makes people feel so passionately about him? Daniel’s fans—and there are millions of them, all over the world—would absolutely live […]
The Irish in Country | From County Clare to Country Nashville
It’s been a good year for Maura O’Connell. In addition to releasing her third solo album, “A Real Life Story,” her tours are doing well. But significantly for Maura, she […]
An American Boy with a Touch of the Old Country
The stretch limousine pulls up outside the backstage door at the Westbury Music Fair in Long Island, New York on a warm Sunday evening in early April. And Eddie Rabbitt, […]
Music Q&A: A Wake Up Call
The Cranberries performed to a small audience at the Bowery Ballroom in downtown Manhattan on August 22 to promote their new CD Wake Up and Smell the Coffee. Less than […]