The Chieftains...in Princeton.
At the McCarter Theater
A nasty windy rainy night, but a fun evening of food and music subsidized by my children. Amanda sprung for the tickets, and Jesse for dinner at the Main Street Bisto...Shepard's Pie, soda bread, and Port.
One of the guys was out with sickness in the family (the piper on the right) and the female singer they usually have was down with the flu. They still had bagpipers, additional musicians, singers, harpists, step dancers, child performers, and an altogether rousing show. There were also performers of tap and a style of chair dancing only seen up in logging country.
Time for a story....
Kim's parent's were on a vacation to Ireland wandering around a village just soaking in the flavor. Kim tells me her Dad has a 'Mr. Magoo' style ability to wander into interesting adventures and this time it was no different.
After getting lost for a bit, Dad finds his way back to Mom and drags her back the way they came...'You've got to see this'.
They come to a house where the most amazing music is being blasted out the windows and open doors by guys sitting in the kitchen. Getting noticed, Kim's parents were invited into the house to listen.
Afterwards they exclaimed how good the guys were and that they had to get an album out there. Yep, it was the Chieftains gigging it up at one of the guy's mother's house decades ago. 43 albums, a half-dozen emmys, and an Oscar in '75 for best song.
Not bad for a kitchen band.
A nasty windy rainy night, but a fun evening of food and music subsidized by my children. Amanda sprung for the tickets, and Jesse for dinner at the Main Street Bisto...Shepard's Pie, soda bread, and Port.
One of the guys was out with sickness in the family (the piper on the right) and the female singer they usually have was down with the flu. They still had bagpipers, additional musicians, singers, harpists, step dancers, child performers, and an altogether rousing show. There were also performers of tap and a style of chair dancing only seen up in logging country.
Time for a story....
Kim's parent's were on a vacation to Ireland wandering around a village just soaking in the flavor. Kim tells me her Dad has a 'Mr. Magoo' style ability to wander into interesting adventures and this time it was no different.
After getting lost for a bit, Dad finds his way back to Mom and drags her back the way they came...'You've got to see this'.
They come to a house where the most amazing music is being blasted out the windows and open doors by guys sitting in the kitchen. Getting noticed, Kim's parents were invited into the house to listen.
Afterwards they exclaimed how good the guys were and that they had to get an album out there. Yep, it was the Chieftains gigging it up at one of the guy's mother's house decades ago. 43 albums, a half-dozen emmys, and an Oscar in '75 for best song.
Not bad for a kitchen band.
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