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Posted on Thursday, November 03, 2011 at 10:15 AM
New York’s ‘Other Voices’ was a show not to be missed - VIDEOS
The hottest ticket in town last week was for the two-day engagement of “Other Voices -- New York City” which was another gift sent our way by Imagine Ireland 2011 gracing us this year courtesy of Culture Ireland.
The riveting stage performance blending a stellar array of musical and literary stars on both sides of the ocean took place at the Greenwich Village emporium Le Poisson Rouge on Bleecker Street, and if it conjured up images of the earlier eras of literary and musical domination from the trendy artistic neighborhood in lower Manhattan, well that was a happy coincidence.
It actually was a visitation of a television series called Other Voices (othervoices.ie) running in Ireland for the past decade filmed down in St. James’ Church in Dingle and produced by South Wind Blows under the direction of videographer and musician Philip King.
The show brings together prominent musicians and writers from America and Ireland from a younger generational point of view, and conducts an exchange that reinforces the bardic tradition in Ireland.
King, along with musicians Thomas Barlett and Glen Hansard and novelist Roddy Doyle, cooked up the concept and recruited the sensational talent lineup who took to the stage last week all to benefit Fighting Words, the Dublin creative writing center founded by Doyle and Sean Love back in 2009 to reach out to Dubliners to express themselves through writing through free programs and tutoring.
The Thursday night show squeezed in 400 people in the large subterranean room with only about half that number able to secure seats for what turned into a masterful and varied three and half hour show, nimbly mixing the musical talent with the giants of Irish literature taking part like Paul Muldoon, Joseph O’Connor and Colum McCann.
Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/from_the_hob/133150493.html#ixzz1d4yqYJdh
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