The WSHSO Album!
June 1, 2011
Thanks for visiting our site! Our new album Since Maggie Dooley Learned the Hooley Hooley is available and it’s received some wonderful reviews, notably in the Irish Echo (Earle Hitchner, June 1, 2011) and the Irish Voice (Paul Keating, March 11, 2011). In addition, it’s been getting airplay on Irish radio programs throughout the country, including WFUV (NYC), WGBH (Boston), WSIU (Illinois), KBCS (Washington), WNCW (North Carolina), WRFG (Georgia), WTJU (Virginia), WTMR (New Jersey), WMUK (Michigan) and WWUH (Connecticut) to name just a few. We appreciate the consideration, thanks everyone for all the support!
If you’re interested in ordering a copy for yourself, please go to one of the two links below:
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Happy listening!
WSHSO members at Catskills Irish Arts Week
August 3, 2012
Lots of WSHSO members attended the 18th Annual Catskills Irish Arts Week, July 15-21, in East Durham, NY. Only about 2 hours drive north of NYC, this fantastic festival is right in our proverbial back yard. Here’s a few pictures of WSHSO members in action!
WSHSO multi-instrumentalist Don Meade taught banjo and harmonica. He also performed in concerts and ceili bands, led sessions and hosted one of the evening concerts.
We’re not sure how this western theme emerged, but at one of the sessions Don led, many people sported cowboy hats. Your man Don was among them, and it rather suits him, don’t you think? Thanks to our friend Deirdre Corrigan for capturing this priceless moment.
WSHSO fiddle player Adam Cole-Mullen was in good company here, playing (or was he sleeping?) in one of the after-hours sessions. Many of these sessions continued until dawn.
WSHSO members Liz Albertson, Suzanne Grossman, and Linda Mason Hood shared a house in the Catskills with Lauren Weintraub Stoebel, WSHSO flute player who moved away several years ago. Together with Lauren’s and Liz’s husbands, they enjoyed some scrumptious meals.
… as well as some great music. The shot below was taken after the session at Stack’s Pub.
The craic is always good in the Catskills! Thanks to CIAW’s director, Paul Keating, for doing his bit to keep the tradition alive. If you’d like to read more about the this year’s Catskills Irish Arts Week, check out Paul’s recent article on the Irish Central website: Catskills Irish Arts week thrives in its 18th year.
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WSHSO Members in Ireland and North Carolina
July 12, 2012
The season of summer music festivals is in full swing, and WSHSO members are taking full advantage. This week, Liz Hanley and Lisa Farber are in Ireland attending the 40th annual Willie Clancy Summer School. Linda Mason Hood is in North Carolina enjoying the Swannanoa Gathering’s Traditional Song Week.
Dan Neely Interviewed on KWMR-FM
July 7, 2012
(c) 2011 Marilyn Stern / sternphoto.com
Today Dan Neely did a fantastic interview on California’s KWMR-FM, West Marin Community Radio. When asked about his involvement in the traditional Irish music scene, he mentioned the WSHSO, of course, along with leading the session at Lillie’s in Union Square, writing a weekly column in the Irish Echo, and coordinating Irish/Celtic Week at the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, West VA. Let’s face it – there’s not much in the NYC Irish scene that Dan’s NOT involved in! Well done, Dan!
Our Maggie Dooley CD reviewed by Irish Music Magazine
June 27, 2012
We just noticed that Dublin’s Irish Music Magazine reviewed our CD last month, and a great review it was at that! Click HERE to see for yourselves – we’re third on the list of CD’s reviewed in May. Thanks, lads, for the kind words and personal shout-outs.
WSHSO Tunes in NY Irish Center Video
June 20, 2012
The WSHSO is pleased to have music from our CD entitled When Maggie Dooley Learned the Hooley Hooley used in the New York Irish Center‘s new promotional video. We appear at 2:09 of this brilliantly condensed history of the Irish in America. Check it out!
Harrigan and Hart Tribute, October 13th
July 28, 2011
Irish Arts Center, in association with
The American Irish Historical Society, Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, City Lore, Glucksman Ireland House—New York University and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum presents
A Tribute to Harrigan & Hart
A Concert Featuring Mick Moloney and an All-Star Line Up featuring
Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks / The Green Fields of America (Athena Tergis, Billy McComiskey, Brendan Dolan, Niall O’Leary) / Dana Lyn / Susan McKeown / Poor Baby Bree / John Roberts / Murray Callahan / Chris Simmons / Maureen Murphy / The Washington Square Harp and Shamrock Orchestra
Thursday, October 13th @ 8 pm. Peter Norton Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th Street)
In the 1870s, decades before George M. Cohan burst onto the Broadway stage, the songs of his hero Edward “Ned” Harrigan, Irish American tunesmith and playwright, were the toast of New York. Harrigan’s ballads of the working class immigrants—filled with lovable and good humored characters like Dan Mulligan and his wife Cordelia, John McSorley, the owner of McSorley’s Irish Ale House, Tammany Alderman Old Boss Barry, and Mary Ann, the schoolteacher—mirrored his own mercurial life, and provided the foundation for an entirely novel genre of musical comedy on the American stage.
On the hundred year anniversary of the death of the beloved Ned Harrigan, Mick Moloney and an all-star cast return to Symphony Space with a multi-media tribute to the Broadway legend, his partner Tony Hart, and musical collaborator David Braham. Through story, song and dance, the performance captures the excitement and humor of the times and salutes its importance in the formation and growth of American musical and theatrical culture.
Admission: Orchestra: $45 general / $35 members
Tier 2: $38 general / $30 members / $25 students
SymphonySpace.org or 212-864-5400
