Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dins sing two half-hour sets at several restaurants around the island. In between, the restaurant managers usually offer them dinner and drinks...
...wants to be blacklisted--after all, the groups have to sing for their supper...
...sing more for the staff--the Jamaicans--than the cheesy American tourists," Brown says...
...Veil is a lovely introduction to this musical Irish institution, with a cogent, eclectic choice of material and Moloney's smart matching of song to singer. Sting leads off with the rapturous Mo Ghile Mear--Our Hero, a tribute to Bonnie Prince Charlie that makes the listener shiver, and sing along, with its manly melancholy. For three other star studs, Moloney provided tales of faithless women: the dirty dancer in Jones' giddily melodramatic version of Tennessee Waltz, the vixen who leads a beau to murder in Knopfler's The Lily of the West, the adulteress refusing to save her lover...
...equal time, Moloney has O'Connor sing The Foggy Dew; she represents "the young mother of Ireland" whose lover is killed in the 1916 Easter Uprising. In the lamentation Love Is Teasin', Faithfull's crone contralto makes the phrase "What cannot be cured, love,/ Must be endured, love" sound like hard wisdom delivered from a deathbed...