Paddy O'Brien and Pat Egan
(Button accordion and guitar/vocals)
Saturday, June 27th, 2009 , at 8pm
Suggested donation: $25 general in advance ($28 at the door), $12 students, $7 children 12 & under
Please call Jody Cormack 860-983-7963 for reservations
or email jcormack@wesleyan.edu
Paddy OBrien is regarded by serious aficionados of traditional Irish music as one of the traditions most important repositories. In a career that spans more than forty years, his repertoire has grown in excess of 3,000 tunes. This in itself is not unique among the best Irish musicians, but in Paddys case, his love for the tunes and the people behind them, draws the listener to a new level of insight.
Born in Co. Offaly in the midlands of
He first played music in public in 1966 with the Ballinamere Ceili Band. In 1968, he toured
Teaming up with fiddler James Kelly, and guitarist and singer Dáithí Sproule, Paddy came to
In the late 1990s, Paddy formed Chulrua, along with two
Paddy has been a teacher of Irish music in many settings, including at the prestigious Willie Clancy Summer School in Co. Clare, the Catskills Irish Arts Week, the
Endowment for the Arts to record 500 tunes (a small portion of his repertoire), resulting in The Paddy OBrien Tune Collection: A Personal Treasury of Irish Jigs and Reels. In 2006, he received a prestigious Bush Artist Fellowship and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant to work on Volume Two of the Tune Collection, setting down another 500 tunes from his impressive repertoire.
Originally from
Pat began playing professionally when he moved to
While in
In the early 1990s, Pat visited the
For a while, Pat split his time between
Pat developed an interest in Old Time music while living in
After
Pat has taught at numerous workshops at festivals throughout the
2 comments:
Where are these concerts held?
re: "Where are these concerts held?" - they are usually in the Middletown home of the organizer, Jody Cormack, though at least one was in the MAC650 gallery on North Main. She's given her email address in the post, so just contact her (maybe she doesn't want to post her home address here, out of privacy concerns).
I've been to many of these performances, and highly recommend going! The home setting is intimate (you're just feet from the performer, in a living room), and people and food were terrific. The musicians are top-notch, too.
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