April 4, 2009
Pat O’Connor and Eoghan O’Sullivan
8:00 pm, Tickets $15.00, Ceili Group Members $13.00, The Irish Center (The Commodore Barry Club) 6815 Emlen St. Philadelphia, 19119
PAT O'CONNOR comes from Ennis in County Clare and has been playing music all his life. As a child he studied piano-accordion, banjo, mandolin and bouzouki, before finally settling on the fiddle as his weapon of choice. Fans of traditional music may have run across Pat's first solo CD THE GREEN MOUNTAIN, featuring his unhurried brand of fiddle playing ... simply lovely in its simplicity and genuineness. His second CD release, HUMOURS OF DERRYBEHA, very much in the same vein, consists mostly of solo tracks and a couple of tasty duets with concertina and flute. To hear Pat play is to experience the intangible and elusive "lonesome touch" of County Clare fiddling.
EOGHAN O'SULLIVAN is a talented musician from Mitchelstown, in County Cork and has been playing flute and accordion since he was six. Regarded as one of Ireland's finest young accordionists, Eoghan has recorded THE SMOKY CHIMNEY (with Kerry fiddler Gerry Harrington), a classic CD of traditional Irish music from that magical area on the Cork-Kerry border known as Sliabh Luachra (pronounced Shleeve Lew-cra). Together, Eoghan and Pat play the “pure drop” of Irish traditional music, and this promises to be a very special evening
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