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...visit with the man behind baseball’s killer record turns up all the qualities of a Boston folk hero. He’s stocky, quick to smile, round-faced, and Irish. His accent is Beantown, chowder, Cheers, and Papi—combined...
Recall Bring it On: rival cheerleaders, lots of energy, not much of a plot. Now, replace the cheerleading competition with céilí, a form of traditional Irish music. And instead of the squad leaders’ rivalry resulting from some quasi-racial socio-economic tensions, imagine the competitors are brothers, reunited after a thirty-year estrangement because they disapprove of each others’ life choices...
Meaney manages to portray Jimmy with both the hardened veneer of a country boy who has made it in the big world and the aw-shucks-ness little brothers almost necessarily possess. Hill is the wizened Irish grandfather we all wish we could have to tell us stories by a roaring fire. And Andrea Corr, lead singer for the internationally acclaimed pop/rock/Celtic group the Corrs, bucks the trend of musicians-turned-bad-actresses: she is absolutely stunning as Anne, the reigning band’s gifted fiddler...
...attempting to get by as best they can. Ultimately however, isolated insightfulness and a great score cannot add up to much of a salvation to writing this unoriginal. Clare can’t offer the younger set much more than a glance at Woodstock’s (much) tamer Irish equivalent. Go for the céilí if you must, and to see Andrea Corr in action, but don’t expect much else...
Passim’s upcoming calendar is a lively one, and includes some wildly unique musicians. On March 25, the rising neo-bluegrass outfit Crooked Still brings a mix of jazz, Irish flare, and traditional American folk music to the club. Rushad Eggleston, the band’s Grammy-nominated fiddler, plays with his solo project The Wild Band of Snee this Sunday, March 6. On Thursday, April 7, the club will host Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, an American folk singer who influenced and occasionally played with Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, and Pete Seeger...