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Ireland Trip 2011

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Almost time for the annual trip to Ireland. I'll be over there from July 27 to August 2nd with a group of intrepid travelers. If you're in Sligo on July 29th I'll be doing a solo show at Hawk's Well Theatre for the Yeats Summer School. Right now it's entitled 'Yeats, Joyce & Black 47.' Who knows what it will be by the time I get off stage?

http://www.hawkswell.com/events/index.php   

Let your Irish friends know.

Want to go to Scotland in 2012. Drop me a line to blk47@aol.com

 

All you pirates lads and lasses, lusty mariners & buxom wenches, the Black 47 Cruise around New York Harbor will cast off on Friday, Aug 26th.

 

The good ship Half Moon will depart from Skyport Marina E. 23rd Street & FDR Drive 8pm

Tickets on sale Monday June 20th at: http://www.rocksoff.com/shows

              Information: sancho@rocksoff.com

 

   

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A FUNKY CEILI...

 

is a collection of 18 both well-known and rare up-tempo tracks from the earliest days to the present.  These 75 manic minutes will be just the ticket for parties or long journeys.  CD form only and available at gigs and online at:

www.black47.com 

 

Track List:

Funky Ceili, Maria's Wedding, The Bells of Hell, Losin' It, Paddy's Got a Brand New Reel, Staten Island Baby, Different Drummer, Izzy's Irish Rose, Oh Maureen, Bodhrans on the Brain, Who Killed Bobby Fuller, Uncle Jim, Black Rose, Five Points, Sadr City, Czechoslovakia, Those Saints, I Got Laid on James Joyce's Grave

  

 

Recently Added & Upcoming Gigs 




  • Aug  26  Rocks Off Cruise, NYC
  • Sept 2    Blackthorne Resort, E. Durham, NY
  • Sept 3    Blackthorne Resort, E. Durham, NY  
  • Sept 17  Irish 2000 Festival, Saratoga, NY  
  • Sept 24  Jersey City Irish Festival, NJ  (2pm)  
  • Sept 24  Pipes in the Valley, Hartford, CT  (9pm)
  • Sept 30  Palace Theatre, Syracuse, NY  

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            So the Big Man is gone. Headed off down Thunder Road.

            We'll never see the like of Clarence Clemons again, that's for certain. He did leave the stage on cue, however, for the scene that he sprung from has just about run its course.

            Clarence was the archetypal rock & roll tenor sax player, raised on King Curtis and roadhouse gigs. But he'll be remembered mainly for his work with Bruce Springsteen.

            They both emerged in the late 60's down the Jersey Shore. What is it about those "dusty little seaside towns" and music?
             I've played many of them from Maryland up to Maine. Cheap little bars, the jukebox pounding, hot chicks, cold beer and pedal to the metal bands... 

 

 

Read more at: Black 47 Blog    

ROCK & READ with LARRY KIRWAN


 

ROCKIN' THE BRONX - The Novel 


But there's another side of him that doesn't totally gel - a certain coldness and even contempt for those around him and the world in general.  It's hard to put your finger on because he hasn't always been like that - you can tell from the surprised looks of old friends from home when he brushes them off after a cursory greeting.  This disciplined frigidity clashes fiercely with the natural charisma that oozes from him - the result being that you always feel slightly uneasy in his presence.  Still, I never doubt but that's his intention.

There's something in his past, too, that's occasionally whispered on the scaffold, especially when he's off conferring with Big Boss Dennehy who democratically treats every man like a piece of crap. But whenever I try to listen, the conversation of the bogmen trails off to be replaced by hostile glares.   

Of course, I'm the Southerner or "Free Stater as they describe me and just "don't understand" the Northern world that they come from.  If Danny is a problem, he's their problem and whatever is in his past concerns them alone and isn't the business of some blow-in.   

Then again, on that crew of East Tyrone, South Armagh and West Belfast boys, pasts are rarely shouted from the rooftops for, from what I can gather, the British Army would like nothing better than a little chat with any number of them. 

 

For reviews and information go to

www.dufoureditions.com/special/kirwan.htm 

 

or Facebook page: 

Rockin' The Bronx 

 

"Larry Kirwan writes with all the charm of his music. This is Angela's Ashes for a new generation.  Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List)

 

LARRY KIRWAN SOLO GIGS  

  • July 29    Yeats Summer School, Sligo, Ireland http://www.yeats-sligo.com   
  • Aug 18    Murphy's Taproom, Manchester, NH
  • Aug 19    Billy's Tavern, Thomaston, ME
  • Aug 20     Spinning Room, Tannersville, NY 
  • Sept 15    Hofstra University, NY   
  • Nov 4       New York Library Association, Saratoga, NY 
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This rock 'n' roll Angela's Ashes begins in County Wexford, Ireland, in the late 1950s, a now unrecognizable, priest-fearing backwater suffocating in superstition and strangled by sexual fevers. After an escape to the Bronx, Larry finds himself, like a musical Zelig, side by side with the Ramones and Blondie at CBGBs; the brothers McCourt, Lester Bangs, and Nick Tosches at The Bells of Hell; the Guinness soaked regulars of Paddy Reilly's; Cyndi Lauper while she ascends and burns; Joe Strummer, Rick Ocasek, Neil Young, and Shane McGowan. The shootings at the Academy and the tragic death of soundman Johnny Byrne punctuate the revels and excesses and presage the gloom cast by 9/11 and the loss of Father Mychal Judge and so many friends. Green Suede Shoes remembers three decades of a lost New York, and celebrates the music and song in which it now lives.

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Want to keep up-to-date on Black 47 Gigs? Go to:
www.black47setlists.com. and find out what we're playing plus reviews of performances.  Bob Silkowitz has gathered set lists from as far back as 1992 (including names of songs we've performed but never recorded, and much other information).

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Check out the chords and lyrics of all Black 47 songs and covers performed over the years (often with annotated comments from the rehearsal sessions) at REEL BOOK.  Including: Long Lost Tapes of Hendrix, Izzy's Irish Rose, Celtic Rocker, James Connolly, Funky Ceili, 40 Shades of Blue, Mychal, Green Suede Shoes and hundreds of other Black 47 originals! 

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Celtic Crush can now be heard on Dish Network, Ch. 6018  

 
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Hear Larry interview Flogging Molly, Rosanne Cash, The Swell Season, Dolores Riordan, Lisa Hannigan, Hothouse Flowers, Ray Davies, Sinead O'Connor, Steve Earle, Dropkick Murphys Moya Brennan, Richard Thompson, L�nasa, Bell X1, Damien Dempsey, etc.

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