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Irish band Dervish whirling through New Mexico
BY DAVID STEIN BERG
JOURNAL 5TAFF WRITER
The Irish pub is often an incubator for music. And for bands. Such was the case with four musicians who met at Thursday jam sessions at Hennigan's in the town of Sligo in the late 1980s. The four eventually formed two bands.
One was a rock group called Who Says What. The other was a traditional band called Dervish and their debut album of traditional Irish music was called "The Boys of Sligo."
"That was in the period known as B.C. --Before Cathy," said Dervish vocalist Cathy Jordan in a phone inter view from Sligo.
"I had met the lads when came to Sligo to visit a sister who was going to college here and I always gravitated to where the music was." Jordan said when the fellows were looking for a singer for Dervish they asked her to join.
"I was delighted to do so," she said. "I was living the life of a pastry chef in Longford. So left pastry flour for musical flower."
Dervish, Jordan said, has an international following of young people in Europe, Australia and Japan.
Its American audience tends to be older. "I think if s harder to get our message across to the younger people- because it's such a vast country," she said.
Dervish is currently on its semiannual tour of the United States, including seven dates in New Mexico:
7 tonight at the Henderson Fine Arts Center, San Juan College, Farmington. $12 gen eral public, $10 students at the center box office or call (505) 566-3465.
8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, at the South Broadway Cultural Center, 1025 Broadway SE. $5.50 general pubUc, $3 chil dren at the door, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, at the Flickinger Center for the Performing Arts, 1110 New York Ave., Alamogordo. $10, $18 and $25 in advance at the center's box office or by calling (505) 437-2202.
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, at the Taos Community Auditorium, 133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos. $20 in advance, $22 at the door. 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, Lyceum Theatre, 411 Main St., Clovis. $15 general public, $10 students, military and seniors. For tickets call (505) 76&49S6 or at the cashier's window at Clovis Community College or at the door.
7:30 p.m. Nov. 17 at the Macey Center, New Mexico Tech. Tickets are $14 for gener al public, $12 seniors and $10 youth in advance by calling 835- 5688 or at the Brownbilt Shoes and Western Wear or at New Mexico Tech bookstore, Video Shack, Sofia's Kitchen and The Smoker or at the door.
7:30 p.m. Nov. 18 at the Fine Arts Theater, Western New Mexico University, 1000 W. College Ave., Silver City. $20 general public, $15 members of the Mimbres Region Arts Council, $10 students, $5 children 5 and under in-advance at the MRAC office, or by calling (505) 538-2505 or toll- free (888) 758-7289. 11/10/06
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