Director/Musician Questlove Takes The Recordings of a 50-Year-Old Concert And Makes a Film and Manifesto
June 30, 2021 No Responses

Director/Musician Questlove Takes The Recordings of a 50-Year-Old Concert And Makes a Film and Manifesto

Report by Brad Balfour Back in 1969, The Woodstock Music Festival captured the world’s imagination. At virtually the same time, 100 miles away, Harlem hosted a music festival which was so totally overlooked that filmmaker Hal Tulchin — who recorded...
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Presenting Two Of Ireland’s Greatest Flutists, Joanie Madden And James Galway
June 24, 2021 No Responses

Presenting Two Of Ireland’s Greatest Flutists, Joanie Madden And James Galway

I just got news from a great friend of mine Mary Reed about another good friend and that is the one and only Joanie Madden of that super group Cherish the Ladies. It all happened last Tuesday when the National Endowment...
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Out&About
June 23, 2021 No Responses

Out&About

By Paddy McCarthy I was swimming last Sunday as it was 90 degrees and was it hot. I have to tell you this because here it comes: yes, the good weather is here at long last. Now I can get...
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The Long Journey Behind This Summer’s Hot Film, “In The Heights,” Is Revealed by Its Two Lead Actresses
June 23, 2021 No Responses

The Long Journey Behind This Summer’s Hot Film, “In The Heights,” Is Revealed by Its Two Lead Actresses

Story by Brad Balfour Preceding its world premiere at The 2021 Tribeca Festival, the musical celebration, In The Heights, enjoyed a special screening for the influencer set at the AMC 42nd St. the night before. Both the film — and...
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Master Chef Wolfgang Puck and Director David Gelb Make A Film That Fills Us With A Dramatic Story of Survival and Success
June 23, 2021 No Responses

Master Chef Wolfgang Puck and Director David Gelb Make A Film That Fills Us With A Dramatic Story of Survival and Success

Story by Brad Balfour Master Chef Wolfgang Puck made his name a brand through a love of all things food. Director David Gelb is getting good at making films about making food. Gelb’s debut feature doc, Jiro Dreams of Sushi,...
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Drank The Gold Offers The Nourishment of Irish Traditional Music to Upstate New York and More
June 17, 2021 No Responses

Drank The Gold Offers The Nourishment of Irish Traditional Music to Upstate New York and More

Q&A by Brad Balfour By now, it’s a familiar story. Due to the pandemic lockdown, bands and performers found themselves frozen out of live venues and were in danger of being driven out of the business entirely. For upstaters Oona...
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Out&About
June 16, 2021 No Responses

Out&About

By Paddy McCarthy A great supporter of The Irish Examiner USA Doctor Kathy Reilly Fallon has been doing a tremendous amount of work seeing patients during this pandemic and deserves a lot of praise for what she has been doing....
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Out&About
June 9, 2021 No Responses

Out&About

By Paddy McCarthy I hope everybody is happy as the weather is just beautiful and it looks like it will be that way for a while. For the last few days, I have been in Port Jefferson on the north...
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From Street Performer to Artist on the World’s Stage, Carlos Battey Transforms into Jackie’s Boy And Become His Own Record Mogul
June 9, 2021 No Responses

From Street Performer to Artist on the World’s Stage, Carlos Battey Transforms into Jackie’s Boy And Become His Own Record Mogul

Interview by Brad Balfour When the pandemic hit, musicians were blessed and cursed at the same time. On the one hand, it shut down opportunities for live performance before paying audiences. On the other hand, it freed up songwriters, instrumentalists...
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Cork Born-and-Bred Actor/Singer Cillian Murphy Goes from Strength to Strength In His Many Performances
June 4, 2021 No Responses

Cork Born-and-Bred Actor/Singer Cillian Murphy Goes from Strength to Strength In His Many Performances

An Appreciation by Paddy McCarthy Actor/singer Cillian Murphy seems to go from strength to strength with his acting and other activities. Currently, the 45-year-old appears as Emmett in the sci-fi horror shocker A Quiet Place Part II (see related interview...
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