Irish Night this Friday : The Ivy House, Friday 29 Sept.

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Irish Night with Thomas McCarthy, Donal Maguire, Racker Donnelly: The Goose Is Out! The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Road, SE15 3BE. Friday 29 Sept... Doors open 7 pm.

Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/thegooseisout

Thomas McCarthy has appeared at the Goose several times, including at our benefit concert in aid of Help Refugees, and each time has been absolutely brilliant!

Thomas is a singer from an Irish Traveller family in Birr, County Offaly. From a considerable dynasty of traditional singers, song-makers and musicians, Thomas grew up surrounded by the singing of his late mother, her father and aunts and uncles and now lives in London.

?The greatest Irish traditional singer in fifty years? ? Joe Power, Conneries? Singing Club, Waterford

http://www.thomasmccarthyfolk.com/

D?nal Maguire has long been a well-known face on the folk scene. He was a resident at the Singers Club back in the day, along with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger.

While D?nal has been primarily associated with unaccompanied singing, he has significant other ?strings to his bow?. He is a fine interpreter of contemporary material, as well as an excellent singer of traditional material, and can accompany himself on a range of stringed instruments. He is universally recognised as one of the finest players of Irish dance music on mandolin and tenor banjo

http://www.donalmaguire.co.uk/index.html

You won?t have heard anything like Racker Donnelly. Unless of course, you?ve seen Racker Donnelly before. In which case you will have (and will be here tonight!)

Brilliant. Genius. Lovely stuff ? BBC Radio 4

A wonderful performer ? Martin Carthy

Never less than brilliant. The best performance poet I?ve ever heard, a breath of fresh air on the London folk scene. Racker for Poet Laureate! ? Ken Hall

http://www.rackerdonnelly.com/

 

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This Friday :)

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[Sue]

Absolutely brilliant night, thanks to Thomas McCarthy, Donal Maguire, Racker Donnelly and the great audience!!

We will do it again!!!