Music of Ireland: Welcome Home
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Grammy Award-winner Moya Brennan hosts, exclusive interviews and performances by The Chieftains, Riverdance’s Michael Flatley, U2, Pete Seeger, Sinéad O’Connor, the late Liam Clancy, and others
Never-before-seen performances by U2 and Friends, Clannad, The Dubliners’ John Sheahan, Paddy Moloney and Moya Brennan, the McPeake Family, and an authentic Dublin pub session combine with vintage clips of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem and The Dubliners on The Ed Sullivan Show, Judy Collins playing music from the ‘old country,’ The Pogues and Van Morrison with The Chieftains on RTE’s Late, Late Show...
2 comments:
Doesn't look like Van had much of anything to do with this production, as you might expect.
And the irony is, of course, that he is and remains THE central pillar of modern Irish music and certainly its most enduring and versatile export.
As per usual...Van let's his music do the talking!!!!
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