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Out & About
Well I ask you though it will be hard to go which continues with Dónal household and community Emperor Jones’ which is
doesn’t time go to them all as they are not Clancy on Friday, January being performed at The
so fast? cheap now but remember 27, at 8p.m. in Glucksman steeped in music. He spent Irish Rep.
Christmas seems like it they are all fundraisers for Ireland House NYU.
has just gone out the good causes. his early childhood in Directed by Ciaran
door and now we are Dónal Clancy is an O’Reilly and starring Obi
looking forward to As you might know that acclaimed guitarist, singer Canada and the US before Abili as Brutus Jones, The
Saint Patrick’s Day in most of the guests that go and performer. Emperor Jones will run
just seven weeks... oh to them all now that you his family settled back in An from March 1 to April 23.
boy. have to have a bank account His father and uncles of
for one alone wow! The Clancy Brothers and Rinn, Co. Waterford in Eugene O’Neill’s ground-
People are already book- Tommy Makem are often breaking play The Emperor
ing their summer holidays Alright I will move on as regarded as the first group 1983. Jones is the story of Brutus
that will be here in just over my head is spinning from all to bring Irish folk song to a Jones, a despot who ascends
a 100 days and we also have that is going on. worldwide audience in the The Waterford-based the throne using lies, intim-
a lot of galas coming up 1950s and 60s. idation and the politics of
I will start with The singer and guitarist recently fear.
Blarney Star Concert Series Dónal grew up in a
released a new solo record- Following a prison break
in the United States, Jones
ing, ‘On the Lonesome sets himself up as monarch
of a Caribbean island.
Plain’, on which he revisit-
When the Natives rebel
ed songs popularized during after years of exploitation,
Jones’s mesmerizing jour-
the traditional music revival ney into darkness becomes
a terrifying psychological
years by his father Liam and portrayal of power, fear,
and madness.
others.
With his demons in
The album also features heavy pursuit, the Emperor
is forced to confront not
instrumental tracks that just the mortal sins of his
past but also the depravities
highlight Dónal’s mar- against his ancestors, - all in
search of forgiveness and
velous, harp-like finger- salvation.
picking virtuosity, and Buy your tickets now by
calling the Box Office at
‘Strike for Victory,’ a stir- (212) 727-2737. The Irish
Repertory Theatre, is locat-
ring self-penned anthem ed at 132 West 22nd Street.
commemorating the Easter See you all next week
when I’m Out & About
Rising. again. C
Glucksman Ireland
House NYU are also hosting
their 5th Annual Dinner
Gala on Thursday, February
28 at the Kimmel Center for
University Life NYU (enter
at 238 Thompson Street).
The Gala’s Master of
Ceremonies is Ted Smyth -
Vice President, Glucksman
Ireland House Advisory
Board - and it will be honor-
ing virtuoso flautist Sir
James Galway and publisher
Niall O’Dowd.
Get your tickets now for
Eugene O’Neill’s ‘The
Acclaimed guitarist, singer and performer Dónal Clancy
