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IRISH EXAMINER | August 7th, 2019
T THHEE IIRRIISSHH EEXXAAMMIINNEERR earned feverish acclaim from the Chicago Tribune, NPR, and more in addition to per-
forming on BBC’s international favorite late-night program Later…with Jools Holland and
appearing on PBS’s Bluegrass Underground. As you can see she has come along way.
M MUUSSIICC AANNDD EENNTTEERRTTAAIINNMMEENNTT IIrriisshh RReeppeerrttoorryy TThheeaattrree presents LLiittttllee GGeemm, written by Elaine Murphy (Shush) and

directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull (Outlying Islands), running through September 1 at
the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage.
G GUUIIDDEE:: RROOCCKK,, CCOOUUNNTTRRYY,, JJAAZZZZ,,

T TRRAADD,, FFOOLLKK,, BBAALLLLAADDSS,, BBLLUUEESS,,

C CLLAASSSSIICCAALL AANNDD LLOOTTSS MMOORREE

Welcome to our regular music and entertainment guide, brought
to you by Paddy McCarthy for your reading enjoyment

The cast of Little Gem includes four-time Academy Award nominee and two-time Golden
Globe Award winner Marsha Mason(The Goodbye Girl) as Kay, Brenda Meaney(Party
Face) as Lorraine, and Lauren O'Leary (The Awkward Years) as Amber.
Do not miss this play as the reviews are fabulous.
You can see NNooeell GGaallllaagghheerr with his daughter AAnnaaiiss, who likes to attend his concerts, in This should interest you with the new CCiittyy WWiinneerryy now open at Pier 26 and the Forest
the picture above, now that is what I call great family support. Singer Noel Gallagher has Hills Stadium. They said while we plan our next stage at Pier 57, there are a lot of ways to
revealed that having a teenage daughter (Anais) has meant he has “got better with it get your City Winery fix.
(feminism) pretty quick.” Stop by CCiittyy VViinneeyyaarrdd aatt PPiieerr 2266 for Vino Vinyasa (wine + yoga on the rooftop!), summer
“Oh, absolutely,” the 54-year old Oasis co-founder confirmed in an interview with The night movie screenings (also on the rooftop!), fall concerts, and their latest offering: frosé.
Guardian. “I didn’t realise until my wife told me I was and I said: ‘Really? Well, I’ve got to Their First Serve Lounge pop-up at Forest Hills kept guests in steady supply of wine
announce that to the world then.’ But definitely, I am. When you’ve got a teenage daugh- through last week’s performances by The Chemical Brothers and Sarah McLachlan. Check
ter, you better get with it pretty quick.” out at all the summer concerts at FHS! .
Anais regularly attends her father’s gigs in the company of her teenage pals. “They can They are also pouring their favorite wines at Rockefeller Plaza every day from 11 am until
talk to you, lucidly, without missing a beat, while texting someone in Ghana, while buying midnight... look for them on the north side of 50th Street!
a pair of shoes and listening to music at the same time ... who invented these people?” You can also enjoy some wine while you watch the Yankees after swinging by their stadi-
Coming your way very soon and not um pop-up. They’re keeping the music going at venues all around NYC this summer
to be missed, DDaavviinnaa aanndd TThhee through their City Winery Presents partnership.
V Vaaggaabboonnddss release ‘‘SSuuggaarr DDrrooppss’’, If you follow John Munnelly’s Saucy instagram feed you might have seen him out and
their debut release for RReedd HHoouussee about, traveling hither, thither and even yon to various markets in Manhattan, Brooklyn
R Reeccoorrddss. and New Jersey. He told us that it was “Great ‘craic’ to meet people,” and it got him think-
‘Sugar Drops’ marks the first time ing though that he really needed to “get stocked.” Stock you John! Luckily not the egg and
singer/songwriter/pianist Davina cabbage dismay of yore ‘in the stocks’ but getting Hattwood Hot Sauce onto the shelves of
Sowers entered a proper studio to upright and decent groceries hereabouts.So he’s made a start and as you can see from this
record an album. The Minneapolis- picture that Hattwood Hot Sauce is in good company on the top shelf, first in line.
based artist holed up in Nashville’s Looking a little artisinal beside the established sauceries of New York there at Fulton Stall
Compass Sound Studio with producer Market (91 South Street).So if you are in South Manhattan or fancy a walk near the tall
(and Compass Records co- ships of South Street Pier 16/17, please do go in through the big old door and ask for
founder) Garry West, along with her Hattwood Sauce. C
trumpeter, string arranger and hus-
band, Zack Lozier, and a rotating cast
of powerhouse players including Todd
Phillips (David Grisman, Robbie
Fulks) on bass, Doug Lancio (Patty Griffin, John Hiatt, Tom Jones) on guitar and Reese
Wynans (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Bonamassa) on Hammond B3.
Davina grew up in Altoona, PA, which she now describes as “awesome in the industrial
era, but horrible for high school.”
She developed a heavy drug habit in high school, which morphed into heroin dependency,
left her homeless, sent her in and out of jail, and brought on all manner of trouble.
Kicking dope on the streets, she “got clean, started the band, and worked [her] ass off
every day since.”
Davina and the band are constantly on the road, touring throughout the world; they’ve