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Edel Fox and Neill Byrne Manhattan launch of new CD “The Sunny Banks”
August 12, 2013 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
$15
Edel Fox & Neill Byrne
Traditional Irish Music on Concertina and Fiddle
Monday, August 12 at 8 p.m. at the Irish Repertory Theatre
132 West 22nd St. Chelsea Section of Manhattan
Admission $15 payable at the door (door opens at 7:30 pm)
Traditional Irish music from two masters from Counties Clare and Waterford are touring the USA in support of a new CD launched this summer called “The Sunny Banks”. Clare native Edel Fox is one of Ireland’s leading concertina players and teachers who taught and performed at the prestigious Catskills Irish Arts Week for six years and annually at the Willie Clancy Summer School in her native Miltown Malbay. In 2004 at age of 18 she won the coveted Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award (TG4) and went on to receive a BA in Irish Traditional Music Performance and an MA in Music Therapy from the University of Limerick. Neill Byrne is from Ferrybank, County Waterford playing the fiddle from age 5 in a musical household and being influenced by the venerable County Wexford composer and fiddler John Dwyer and has toured throughout Europe. The tandem have been playing together for three years and are among the most exciting young musicians in Ireland and they look forward to sharing their stylish brand of traditional Irish music in the intimate artistic setting of the Irish Repertory Theatre.
For further info and reservations contact 201-965-6598 (Paul Keating)