New England Celtic Arts will host Aoife Clancy, lead singer for “The Clancy Legacy,” and Ireland well known duo “Pipeline” with Dermot Hyde and Tom Hake at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center in South Carthage, Maine on Sunday August 2nd. The concert starts at 7:00 PM. This is the second in a series of four special Sunday concerts being held at Skye Theatre in August. A pre-show jam will start at 6:15 please bring your instruments and join in.
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Clancy and Pipeline are being paired as a specially featured act at the Milwaukee Irish Fest the following week in Milwaukee. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to merge the music and tradition of two legendary Irish performers. Both performers have performed separately at Skye Theatre in the past and requested the opportunity to do a “live run through” onstage at Skye before taking the show to the larger stage in Milwaukee the following weekend.
Aoife Clancy (pronounced “Eefa”) brings a refreshing new voice to folk music, one that ranges from traditional Irish songs to ballads and contemporary folk. Aoife comes from the small town of Carrick-on-Suir, in Co Tipperary, Ireland, where her musical career began at an early age. Her father Bobby Clancy of the legendary Clancy Brothers, placed a guitar in her hands at age ten, and by age fourteen was playing with her father in nearby pubs.
She later moved to Dublin, where she studied drama at the Gaiety School of Acting. After a season at the Gaiety, Aoife was invited to do a tour of Australia. There she performed at festivals and concerts sharing the stage with some of Ireland’s greatest performers, including Christy Moore and the Furey Brothers. Her performances also include a Caribbean cruises with the Clancy Brothers, the Milwaukee Irish Festival and a seven week tour of the United States with the renowned Paddy Noonan Show.
In 1995 Aoife was asked to join the acclaimed group “Cherish the Ladies,” which is one of the most sought-after Irish American groups in history. For the past four years Aoife has toured extensively doing no less than two hundred dates a year throughout the United States and Europe. She has been a featured soloist with orchestras such as the Boston Pops and Cincinnati Pops and, while performing with Cherish the Ladies, collaborated with the Boston Pops on their Grammy nominated Celtic album.
Amongst the many new versatile formations playing Celtic music today, Dermot Hyde and Tom Hake’s PIPELINE occupy a special position. PIPELINE is an exciting new duo with Dermot Hyde on uillean pipes, whistles, vocals, small pipes, and Tom Hake playing bouzouki, guitar and harp. The two musicians offer a repertoire, which comprises both traditional and brand new music from Ireland, Scotland, Galicia, and Brittany. PIPELINE appears to be the only duo in the business that is able to combine the real genuine article, – “frighteningly beautiful music,” with what audiences call their “unrivalled and original sense of entertainment.” And it’s this very mixture which makes the two musicians and their show unique.
The dance music and songs, as well as the moving airs of all the Celtic lands are represented here, played innovatively on a vast battery of instruments from bagpipes to bouzoukis, from flutes to drums. All the while the audience is treated to a “mesmerizing collage of sound.” interspersed with a witty informative stage presence.
Skye Theater is located 3 miles West of East Dixfield village at 2 Highland Drive off Winter Hill Rd and US RT. 2 in South Carthage. Ticket price is $10.00 at the door. Call New England Celtic Arts at (207) 562-4445 for reservations and directions. More information at: http://www.necelticarts.com
