You know we told you about Black 47’s Trip to Ireland a while back? Well now Larry Kirwan brings you news of a chance to […]

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Ellen has posted her photos of last week’s Enter The Haggis gig in Kansas City. There’s also a few snaps of The Kelihans who opened […]

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Tomorrow night at 9pm is another good reason the Westport Flea Market is not Hooters. For free you get to see Kansas City’s The Kelihans, […]

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The Kansas City Star describes a movie called Millions as:
Irish siblings find a bag of cash; will they spend it on themselves or on good […]

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If I say Neil Dorfsman to you, what Irish music do you think of? Paul Brady, Solas? Okay very good, but as it happens […]

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The Kansas City Star today features an article on The Elders‘ keyboard player, Joe Miquelon, and Roger Coleman from midtown’s Pilgrim Chapel. It’s an interesting […]

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Speaking of the National Review list of Top 50 Conservative Rock Songs of All Time (or the last fifty years, if you prefer), John J. […]

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Although this interview with Lúnasa’s Sean Smyth is in advance of a prestigious concert in Ireland, and not one in Kansas city or the Midwest, […]

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Speaking of women cavorting alone on beds - speaking to myself you understand - I was thinking of everyone’s favourite woman of Joyce, Fionnuala Flanagan. […]

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Speaking of Irish singers and Bamoko, there’s a podcast interview by Larry Elliott, the Guardian’s economics editor, with Mr Bono over in Mali at the […]

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Liam O Maonlai has just updated his site where he lets us know that he too is now spending too much of his life on […]

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You might think of him as a classy Irish tenor; I never have. In five months he’ll own Missouri. Right now he’s touring the northeast […]

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Refreshingly, the National Review reminds us that not all Rock’n’Roll is Bruce Springsteen and Mrs McGrath.
Yes, much of it is actually conservative - from […]

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So I’ve been listening to some of Enter The Haggis‘ brand new CD, Soapbox Heroes. Track 3, New Monthly Flavour has been available on MySpace […]

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Irish Fest, the Memorial Day Weekend Festival at Chicago Gaelic Park is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
It’s a festival with four days of music […]

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If you read the same papers as I do, you have a ready supply of brown paper bags.
Actually I’m talking about posters and ads. This […]

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Recently I’ve enjoyed watching Sullivan’s John being performed by Eddie Delahunt and Gabriel Reyes. With both of them playing the bodhrán for the tune, if […]

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A ‘Mini Irish Fest’ entitled a Celebration of Ireland, on Saturday, June 3, is a benefit fundraiser concert for Children for Peace in Ireland
Headlined by […]

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Snow Patrol started a 20-date North American tour last night in Denver.
Eyes Open, the follow-up to the hugely succesful Final Straw album, came out earlier […]

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Luka Bloom, influential singer/songwriter of the Irish music world - he’s a bogman - is 51 today. Baby Barry has come a long way since, […]

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