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LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 3034
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 9:23 am: | 
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Come celebrate St. PAtrick's Day with Irish music. A friend has 2 tix for The Chieftains at NJPAC and just got invited to a family bar mitzvah and can't attend. They are in the 2nd tier, RowB. Face value is $46 each. Email me at njanow at sopl dot org or call 973-762-4987.Thanks |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 3035
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 10:01 pm: |
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Opps, I forgot to put the date. It's actually on SATURDAY, March 18 at 8pm. |
Shanabana
Citizen
Username: Shanabana
Post Number: 216
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 11:08 pm: |
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My God, they're still alive?!? |
mwoodwalk
Citizen
Username: Mwoodwalk
Post Number: 519
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 10:50 pm: |
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Still alive and still a great show. My wife and mother in law go every year. I joined them last year. Was one of the more enjoyable shows I had seen in a long time. I highly recommend you take the oppoortunity to see them.
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CLK
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 1963
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 4:47 pm: |
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They're not all still alive. The harpist, Derek Bell, died a few years ago. We saw the Chieftains perform less than a year after his death. There was palpable grief there, and it wasn't a great show. Hopefully, they're all feeling better now and back to their old form. I haven't been to a performance since that show.
Our favorite Chieftains story: Before I met my husband, we were both attending University of Maryland near where I grew up. We were comparing notes on our Chieftains concerts and he said that in such-and-such year, he'd seen them perform at the Kennedy Center. I'd seen them perform the same year, about the same time, at Howard County Community College, sponsored by the Howard County Poetry Society. I'd paid like $10 for my ticket in a small, intimate venue - he'd paid like $50 for his in a this massive impersonal (though very nice) theatre. The show I saw then was great - Michael Flatley was touring with them. This was long before Riverdance, and he was just a promising young dancer. |
Innisowen
Citizen
Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 1583
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 10:55 pm: |
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Unfortunately, the Chieftains' "show" hasn't changed at all in "patter" or routine in more than 10 years. I stopped going several years ago when I noticed there's no real respect for the audience but there's a lot of mechanical playing and stale craic.
I find myself gravitating to Altan, Solas, the Saw Doctors, and the Waterboys whenever they're in a place I can get to. Just the humble opinion of a tried and true lover of Celtic music who's not bad at playing music himself. |
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