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Dervish

New York City Redux

By Ian Worpole, Contributor
April / May 2007

April 1, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Music Columnist Ian Worpole chronicles his return to the Big Apple Having spent a rowdy ten years in a cheap loft in Tribeca, New York City (Cheap! It wasn’t quite yet an oxymoron twenty years ago), with two small children and an irate landlord, it was time to move north to Woodstock, a quaint hamlet known for its arts colony and a certain concert that took place in 1964. We … [Read more...] about New York City Redux

Music Roundup

By Don Meade, Contributor
February / March 2002

February 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

Decade This "best of" collection is perfect introduction to Dervish, one of Ireland's very best traditional music groups. Decade samples tracks from ten years' worth of recordings by a band that has gone from playing pub sessions in County Sligo to head-lining concerts before stadium-sized crowds in Europe and South America. Dervish is still relatively little known in the … [Read more...] about Music Roundup

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