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El Defensor Cheiftain, Concert Review >>
Dervish's lively performance featured good musical mix
-by Audry Olmsted
El Defensor Chieftain Managing Editor aolmsted@dchieftain.com
You know you're at an Irish concert when the lead singer invites you to sing along to the songs, but cautions that if you don't understand the words, well, that's because it's in Gaelic. As far as I know, most people in Socorro, or the U.S. of A. do not speak this language
The popular Irish music group. "Dervish" gave a lively performance to a packed room Friday night during the Festival of the Cranes at Macey Center.
Having been exposed to a fair amount of Irish/Celtic/Scottish music in my time thanks to friends who will almost listen to nothing else, I can say "Dervish" put on a very satisfying concert with a good mix of songs, jigs and Irish tales to keep the audience entertained.
You didn't have to understand Gaelic, or English with a heavy Irish accent, to understand what "Dervish's" songs were about and feel the emotion in the songs. It also helped that lead singer, Cathy Jordan, explained the story behind each song before starting to sing.
The only thing that I found strangely lacking at the concert is dancing. And I don't mean by the band itself. They were too busy racing through lightening fast jigs to be doing much dancing.
No, I mean the audience. As mentioned before, 1 have been to concerts that feature this same lively world music. And from the moment the fiddler first draws his bow across the strings on his instrument or the first hum of the dijerido. the audience is up and moving in a fashion that I can liken to a friendly and very, VERY tame mosh pit of people tapping out Irish steps.
Friday night, a small handful of concert-goers waited until the very last song "Dervish" played during the group's encore, to get up and move to the music. Well, to each their own. I personally alternate between dancing and letting my feet doing the talking, er, tapping while comfortably seated.
Perhaps the audience was too tired from a day of bird-gazing and tramping through the bosque to move.
You don't have to be moving outwardly to feel the heart of the music within. 11/22/06
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