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A Very Special Irish Folk Concert

Griffin's "If We Only Had Ireland Over Here" concerts are among the most unique in the Irish music scene. A historian and musicologist, his informed and charming use of commentary and poetry wets the stage for each song like no one else.

§ It's been said that we Irish people have experienced the last 800 years as the present and audiences will feel that present in each Griffin song styling. They will:

§ Lament a bard's unrequited love for his dear Eileen or a Kerry father's treachery toward his son;

§ Walk to the gallows with Henry Joy or up a narrow street with Roddy McCorley

§ Cry at the ruined wedding of Grace Gifford;

§ Understand the words of the d1580 rebel song "Follow Me Up to Carlo" for the first time;

§ Chase girls with Barney and the boys on the way to the Isle of Man;

§ Dance and Mairi's wedding and fight at Finnegan's funeral;

§ Sing along with a wild rover, a dying Mayo rebel and a grateful Scot husband;

§ Meet the real Molly Malone and the true love of a boy named Danny;

§ Learn how an investigative reporter handled the indiscretions of a politician in the 1760's; and,

§ Long for a hundred more histories and stories behind the songs.

§ History, culture and song are wrapped into one delightful entertainment package.

-Kelly Sullivan

SullFire Music

January 1999