Word: bandness
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...audience’s rousing standing ovation for traditional Irish music band Altan at Sanders Theatre on March 20th marked the perfect end to a festive St. Patrick’s week in Cambridge—and showed why there’s so much love for all things Irish in America...
...interaction between the band and the audience heightened the enjoyment of the night,” she said. “The artistry of the performers, the theater lighting, the stage decorations and the pulse of excitement running through the crowd all combined to produce a very whole, a very organic experience...
...time to set the tempo of the night with a fast paced jig to warm up the crowd. Playing up Ireland’s greatest export—whiskey—the next jig was purely inspired by this “water of life.” The band claimed to be singing about whiskey because of their Lenten pact of abstinence but that was quickly dispelled by fiddler Ciarn Tourishís cry of “Yeah right...
...colorful history. In 1985 Mhaonaigh and her husband Frankie Kennedy decided to leave work and become professional musicians. Their gamble paid off and nearly twenty years later Altan expanded to include Dermot Byrne, Ciarn Tourish, Ciarn Curran, and Dithi Sproule and are widely regarded as the best Celtic band to emerge from Ireland...
Then comes the inevitable “Come on, does somebody want to go next?” Apparently, nobody does. Skier promises everybody that if they wait around for half an hour, a live band will arrive. There are murmurs of problem sets to be done. People begin to pick up their coats and wander out the door...