•The high-quality, well-loved and equally well-attended slate of concerts that Brian O’Donovan organized, nourished, and emceed for so many years at the Burren Backroom will now live on there in his name. And the Brian O’Donovan Legacy Series will get off to quite the start on Nov. 1, presenting uilleann piper Cillian Vallely and Worcester-born-and-bred fiddler David Doocey –
You might think that after its busiest March in years, the Greater Boston Irish/Celtic music scene would collectively put its feet up and take a breather. Wrong. There’s plenty to enjoy in April, too.•The Le Vent du Nord concert (part of the Global Arts Live series) at City Winery Boston originally scheduled for March 29 has since been shifted to Monday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m.
Karan Casey admits it: She was nervous.Yes, she’s been performing for decades in front of audiences big and small, in her native Ireland, the UK, the US, and many other places. But at January’s Celtic Connections in Glasgow – one of the premier Celtic music events in the world – she was about to unveil a brand-new song of hers, one unlike any other she’d written, let alone
Déjà vu: a rhymeIt is impossible to experience déjà vu for the first timeI reckon the first time déjà vu happensis the secondDéjà vu: a rhyme…Les Barker We’ve been here before, haven’t we? It’s late December as I write this, and I am thinking back to 12 months ago, when we were nervously eyeing the advance of Omicron – and a return to the bad old days of 2020 and early 2021 –