Marianne MacDonald's Blog (3)

I've just returned from a 7 day trip to the Canadian Maritimes, PEI, Cape Breton and Halifax, N.S. What great music we had! From a ceili/session in Charlottetown, PEI with Roy Johnstone joined by Fintan Malone to two great days of music with legendary Cape Breton fiddler/piano players Brenda Stubbert and Howie MacDonald to another ceili/session in Halifax with Kevin Roach, and a slew of his friends including Fintan, we had the best of reels, jigs, strathspeys, marches, waltzes, hornpipes and hig… Continue

Join us as we travel to "Reel" Ireland tomorrow night (March 27) at the Irish Center! It's the first in a series of Irish films being presented as a joint venture between irishphiladelphia.com (Jeff Meade & Denise Foley), Yours Truly (host of "Come West Along the Road") and the Irish Center. Tomorrow's film is "The Boys and Girl from Co. Clare" which is a light romance/comedy about two brothers going head-to-head at the All Ireland Ceili Band competition. This is a nice chance to see a film… Continue

Last night at the Sellersville Theatre, I had one of those sublime moments in life. I was able to sit within 20 feet of the incredible Maura O'Connell! Along with Dolores Keane, Maura is my favorite female performer of any type of music, Irish, folk, lovesongs, blues, etc. What an incredible singer and woman she… Continue