Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 7:30 pm CHULRUA Irish traditional music "Adept at finding unusual tunes and variants, and in celebrating the individual voice in the flow of traditional practice… a reminder of the things that matter in Irish traditional music." – Irish Music Magazine
Crossroads Music 48th and Baltimore Ave. (in Calvary United Methodist Church) http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org or 215-729-1028 Tickets are $20, $10 discount, $30 for supporters, $5 for 12 and under. Chulrua (pronounced cool-ROO-ah) is Irish for "red back," the name and distinguishing feature of the ancient Irish hero Fionn MacCumhaill's favorite wolfhound. It is also the name of an internationally acclaimed trio of some of the most respected and unique exponents of Irish traditional music. County Offaly native Paddy O’Brien has collected more than 3,000 tunes, including many rare and unusual ones over the last 40 years and is regarded as one of the tradition's most important repositories. A master of the two-row button accordion, he has been named Oireachtas champion four times, and was first named All-Ireland senior accordion champion in 1975. A native of Tipperary, guitarist Pat Egan grew up singing and playing, and has been a professional musician since 1985. Now based in Baltimore, Maryland, Pat has made extensive tours of the United States, and has also performed in Sweden, Norway, Holland, Germany, and Scotland. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, in the US, Ireland, and abroad. Dale Russ's fiddle playing is known for its balance of power and elegance. Originally a bluegrass guitarist, Dale discovered Irish music shortly after buying his first fiddle in 1973 and has never looked back. He has since played in bands with such luminaries as Kevin Burke, Mike Saunders, Mark Graham, Colin Manahan and Nick Voreas. One of his live concert recordings won an award from the Smithsonian for "Traditional Recording of the Year." UPCOMING EVENTS Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 7:30 pm ARCHIE FISHER - Scottish songs and ballads "One of Britain's finest song interpreters." - Sing Out. "Quietly poetic ballads haunt like a shadowy specter." - St. Paul Pioneer-Press Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 7:30 pm MICHAEL WINOGRAD TRIO, with special guest Dan Blacksberg - New & traditional klezmer, Yiddish song & improv "The wedding band of choice for the hippest of shtetls." - City Paper "Formerly deceased, the music now enjoys rude good health. A perfect example of this sea change in musical fortunes." - The Forward Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 7:30 pm JAYATEERTH MEVUNDI Indian classical vocalist of the Kirana gharana "Took [Kolkata's Nazrul Mancha] conference by storm. His presentation of Sudhkalyan followed by Pahari Thumri and Bhajan is still ringing in my ears. Jayatu Jayateerth! – Dhaka Daily Star Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Center Wednesday, April 28 at 7:30 pm ALASH ENSEMBLE Tuvan throat-singing "Utterly stunning. Audience members picked their jaws up off the floor." -Washington Post. "Seemed to demonstrate superhuman powers using their vocal chords." - Cornell Daily Sun Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 7:30 pm Generations of Resistance, featuring: ANNE FEENEY - unionmaid, hell raiser, and labor singer "Congratulations on your fine songwriting!" - Pete Seeger "Anne Feeney is the best labor singer in North America." - Utah Phillips EVAN GREER - Songs to inspire hope, build community and incite resistance "Songs [that] will be heard at the barricades for years to come." - Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine "An eloquent and energetic writer." - Howard Zinn ROY ZIMMERMAN - Funny songs about ignorance, war, and greed "Lacerating wit & keen awareness of society's foibles that bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer." - Los Angeles Times "Reintroducing literacy to comedy songs." - Tom Lehrer Friday, May 21, 2010 at 7:30 pm BRUCE MOLSKY & ALE MOLLER - Appalachian old time and Swedish traditional music "The Rembrandt of Appalachian fiddling." - Darrol Anger. "Among the most talented, active and prolific on the Swedish scene." - Dirty Linen Crossroads Music is in part supported by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the Samuel S. Fels Fund. This project is supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), its regional arts funding partnership. State government funding for the arts depends upon an annual appropriation by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administred in this region by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity-Announce." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. You may post announcements to this list, but this list attempts to prevent discussion. Please use univcity to discuss messages on this list. Subscribers of univcity receive all mail to this list.
