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Live Music: Folk

6:30

You’re invited to an evening of Irish songs:  Songbirds: The First Ladies of Irish Song.  The performance features a lovely collection of old Irish songs from the 1930s and 40s performed by Fil Campbell, accompanied by Tom McFarland.  The show is based on a 6-part Irish TV programme of the same name, where Fil profiled the lives of women singers from that period.  “Songbirds” was originally prepared as a CD of folk songs that Fil had grown up with and that had first been recorded in the 1930s by Delia Murphy —songs like “If I Were A Blackbird”, “The Connemara Cradle Song” and “The Homes of Donegal” - but a chance remark from a colleague pushed forward the idea of doing a TV biopic of Delia who was one of the most intriguing women to have come out of Ireland in the last century. ”

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COST:

$10 suggestion donation to artist

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Lemont House Concerts
WEBSITE: http://www.filcampbell.com/