Irish dance guru Jordan s film shows how lovers of the art honor the legacy of Dan Furey, fiddler and dance master dotnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dotnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Not surprisingly, the recent Covid-19 resurgence has slowed somewhat the resumption of live events at area venues. Continued concern and uncertainty as well as travel restrictions related to the pandemic have forced many performers from Ireland, Scotland, and elsewhere abroad – and even within the US – to scale back, postpone, or cancel their plans for touring; Altan’s
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The director tells LBB how he created an escapist adventure, packed with zombie invasions, a dinosaur encounter and a D-Day landing in Ukraine for the Facebook-owned VR platforms
As Covid continues to keep many of us stuck in our homes, the appeal of escaping into a virtual world only grows stronger. And so, Ian Pons Jewell’s recent Oculus ad, which whisks us to a galaxy far, far away and beyond couldn’t feel more relevant right now. And after a year of fairly small, Zoom-call-recorded ads, this ambitious, world-hopping point of view adventure feels pretty liberating.
By Sean Smith, Contributor to BostonIrish
February 1, 2021
Sean Smith, Contributor to BostonIrish
Maggie Holtzberg, manager of the Folk Arts & Heritage Program for state agency Mass Cultural Council, began playing traditional fiddle styles in her teens. I do think that being a musician yourself can be helpful in evaluating and assessing musicians in other traditions. You feel you’re with family, because you have something in common.
Boston-area resident Maggie Holtzberg’s job involves looking after one of Massachusetts’s most prized attributes: its folk traditions.
As manager of the Folk Arts & Heritage Program for the state’s Mass Cultural Council agency, Holtzberg researches and documents the array of ethnic and cultural artistic activities within the Bay State, from Irish dance and Cape Breton fiddle to Wampanoag regalia and Chinese seal carving. And she plays an important role in ensuring these traditions are passed along, notably through helping oversee the a
A painter in his workshop. Ed Forry photo
With this Christmas issue, we’re pleased to display on our front page an original work by the wonderful Irish-born artist Vincent Crotty. The Reporter newspapers commissioned Vincent to create in this time of social distancing an original painting of Christmas on Boston Common.
A resident of Lower Mills where he lives with his wife, the brilliant performer and Irish dance teacher Kieran Jordan, Vincent does his creative magic, day in and day out, in his backyard studio. One recent morning, I spoke by phone with him, but he had little time to chat, as he was about to do an online one-hour yoga class, and later remotely teach his own class in artistic technique to a student he has never personally met.