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Dublin
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Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. Dublin is in the province of Leinster on Irelands east coast, the city has an urban area population of 1,345,402. The population of the Greater Dublin Area, as of 2016, was 1,904,806 people, founded as a Viking settlement, the Kingdom of Dublin became Irelands principal city following the Norman invasion. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire before the Acts of Union in 1800, following the partition of Ireland in 1922, Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State, later renamed Ireland. Dublin is administered by a City Council, the city is listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network as a global city, with a ranking of Alpha-, which places it amongst the top thirty cities in the world. It is a historical and contemporary centre for education, the arts, administration, economy, the name Dublin comes from the Irish word Dubhlinn, early Classical Irish Dubhlind/Duibhlind, dubh /d̪uβ/, alt. /d̪uw/, alt /d̪u, / meaning black, dark, and lind /lʲiɲ pool and this tidal pool was located where the River Poddle entered the Liffey, on the site of the castle gardens at the rear of Dublin Castle. In Modern Irish the name is Duibhlinn, and Irish rhymes from Dublin County show that in Dublin Leinster Irish it was pronounced Duílinn /d̪ˠi, other localities in Ireland also bear the name Duibhlinn, variously anglicized as Devlin, Divlin and Difflin. Historically, scribes using the Gaelic script wrote bh with a dot over the b and those without knowledge of Irish omitted the dot, spelling the name as Dublin. Variations on the name are found in traditionally Irish-speaking areas of Scotland, such as An Linne Dhubh. It is now thought that the Viking settlement was preceded by a Christian ecclesiastical settlement known as Duibhlinn, beginning in the 9th and 10th century, there were two settlements where the modern city stands. Baile Átha Cliath, meaning town of the ford, is the common name for the city in modern Irish. Áth Cliath is a name referring to a fording point of the River Liffey near Father Mathew Bridge. Baile Átha Cliath was an early Christian monastery, believed to have been in the area of Aungier Street, there are other towns of the same name, such as Àth Cliath in East Ayrshire, Scotland, which is Anglicised as Hurlford. Although the area of Dublin Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times and he called the settlement Eblana polis. It is now thought that the Viking settlement was preceded by a Christian ecclesiastical settlement known as Duibhlinn, beginning in the 9th and 10th century, there were two settlements where the modern city stands. The subsequent Scandinavian settlement centred on the River Poddle, a tributary of the Liffey in an area now known as Wood Quay, the Dubhlinn was a small lake used to moor ships, the Poddle connected the lake with the Liffey. This lake was covered during the early 18th century as the city grew, the Dubhlinn lay where the Castle Garden is now located, opposite the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle
Dublin
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Clockwise from top:
Samuel Beckett Bridge,
Trinity College,
Custom House,
Dublin Castle,
O'Connell Bridge, and
Convention Centre Dublin.
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Father Mathew Bridge, formerly Dublin Bridge, is understood to be near the ancient "Ford of the Hurdles" (Baile Átha Cliath), the original crossing point on the River Liffey.
Dublin
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Dublin Castle was the fortified seat of
British rule in Ireland until 1922.
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Henrietta Street, developed in the 1720s, is the earliest Georgian Street in Dublin.
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Irish folk
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The folk music of Ireland is the generic term for music that has been created in various genres in Ireland. In A History of Irish Music, W. H. Grattan Flood wrote that, in Gaelic Ireland, there were at least ten instruments in general use. These were the cruit and clairseach, the timpan, the feadan, the buinne, the guthbuinne, the bennbuabhal and corn, the cuislenna, the stoc and sturgan, there is also evidence of the fiddle being used in the 8th century. There are several collections of Irish folk music from the 18th century, important collectors include Colm Ó Lochlainn, George Petrie, Edward Bunting, Francis ONeill, James Goodman and many others. Irish traditional music has survived more strongly against the forces of cinema, radio and this was possibly because the country was not a geographical battleground in either of the two world wars. Another potential factor was that the economy was agricultural, where oral tradition usually thrives. From the end of the world war until the late fifties folk music was held in low regard. Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and the popularity of the Fleadh Cheoil helped lead the revival of the music, the English Folk music scene also encouraged and gave self-confidence to many Irish musicians. Following the success of The Clancy Brothers in the USA in 1959, the lush sentimental style of singers such as Delia Murphy was replaced by guitar-driven male groups such as The Dubliners. Irish showbands presented a mixture of pop music and folk dance tunes, the international success of The Chieftains and subsequent musicians and groups has made Irish folk music a global brand. Historically much old-time music of the USA grew out of the music of Ireland, England and Scotland, by the 1970s Irish traditional music was again influencing music in the USA and further afield in Australia and Europe. It has occasionally been fused with rock and roll, punk rock, like all traditional music, Irish folk music has changed slowly. Most folk songs are less than two hundred years old, one measure of its age is the language used. Modern Irish songs are written in English and Irish, most of the oldest songs and tunes are rural in origin and come from the older Irish language tradition. Modern songs and tunes often come from cities and towns, Irish songs went from the Irish language to the English language, unaccompanied vocals are called sean nós and are considered the ultimate expression of traditional singing. Sean-nós singing is highly ornamented and the voice is placed towards the top of the range, a true sean-nós singer will vary the melody of every verse, but not to the point of interfering with the words, which are considered to have as much importance as the melody. To the first-time listener, accustomed to pop and classical singers, sean-nós often sounds more Arabic, non-sean-nós traditional singing, even when accompaniment is used, uses patterns of ornamentation and melodic freedom derived from sean-nós singing, and, generally, a similar voice placement. Caoineadh /kˠi, nʲɪ/ is Irish for a lament, a song which is typified by lyrics which stress sorrow, traditionally, the Caoineadh song contained lyrics in which the singer lamented for Ireland after having been forced to emigrate due to political or financial reasons
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Traditional music sessions are commonplace in public houses throughout Ireland
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Photograph of Patrick Byrne, harper, by
Hill & Adamson (1845),
calotype print, 203 × 164 mm,
Scottish National Gallery
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The Haymakers jig
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A fiddle and bow
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Banjo
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The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head. The membrane, or head, is made of plastic, although animal skin is still occasionally but rarely used. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in America, the banjo is frequently associated with country, folk, Irish traditional and bluegrass music. Historically, the banjo occupied a place in African American traditional music. The banjo, with the fiddle, is a mainstay of American old-time music and it is also very frequently used in Traditional Jazz. The modern banjo derives from instruments that had used in the Caribbean since the 17th century by enslaved people taken from West Africa. Written references to the banjo in North America appear in the 18th century, the etymology of the name banjo is uncertain. The word could have come from the Yoruba word Bami jo and it may derive from the Kimbundu word mbanza. A Banza, a five double string courses Portuguese viuhela with two short strings, mbanza is a string African instrument that has been built after the Portuguese Banza. Banza is quite similar to Banjo, various instruments in Africa, chief among them the kora, feature a skin head and gourd body. Banjos with fingerboards and tuning pegs are known from the Caribbean as early as the 17th century, 18th- and early 19th-century writers transcribed the name of these instruments variously as bangie, banza, bonjaw, banjer and banjar. Instruments similar to the banjo have been played in many countries, another likely relative of the banjo is the akonting, a spike folk lute played by the Jola tribe of Senegambia, and the ubaw-akwala of the Igbo. Early, African-influenced banjos were built around a body and a wooden stick neck. These instruments had varying numbers of strings, though often including some form of drone, the five-string banjo was popularized by Joel Walker Sweeney, an American minstrel performer from Appomattox Court House, Virginia. In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white performer to play the banjo on stage and his version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth string. This new banjo was at first tuned dGdf♯a, though by the 1890s this had been transposed up to gcgbd, Banjos were introduced in Britain by Sweeneys group, the American Virginia Minstrels, in the 1840s, and became very popular in music halls. In the Antebellum South, many black slaves played the banjo, two techniques closely associated with the five-string banjo are rolls and drones. Rolls are right hand fingering pattern that consist of eight notes that subdivide each measure
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A five-string bluegrass banjo
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Open strings and highest note of a standard-tuned five-string bluegrass banjo.
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A five-string banjo.
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Plectrum banjo from Gold Tone
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Diatonic button accordion
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A melodeon or diatonic button accordion is a member of the free-reed aerophone family of musical instruments. It is a type of accordion on which the melody-side keyboard contains one or more rows of buttons. The buttons on the keyboard are most commonly arranged in pairs, with one button of a pair sounding the fundamental of a chord. Diatonic button accordions are popular in countries, and used mainly for playing popular music and traditional folk music. Various terms for the button accordion are used in different parts of the English-speaking world. In Britain and Australia, the melodeon is commonly used, regardless of whether the instrument has one. In Ireland, melodeon is reserved for instruments with a row of melody buttons. In North America, both one-row and multi-row instruments are simply called accordions. To simplify matters and avoid ambiguity, in the remainder of this article the term diatonic button accordion, or DBA, France, the term accordéon diatonique is used, mélodéon is sometimes used for one-row instruments. In Italy, a button accordion is a fisarmonica diatonica or organetto. The usual German terms are Handharmonika or Knopfakkordeon, the Dutch term is trekharmonika and trekzak. In Portugal it is called concertina, not to be confused with the English concertina, the Slovenian term is diatonična harmonika and more frequently frajtonarca The Brazilian Portuguese term is Acordeão Diatônico or Gaita-ponto. The Basque term is akordeoi diatonikoa, soinu txikia or trikitixa, the following definitions will assist understanding of this article. In this respect, these instruments operate like a harmonica, other single-action or bisonoric members of the free-reed family include the German concertina, the Anglo-German concertina, the bandoneon, and the Chemnitzer concertina. There are varieties of diatonic button accordion that are double-action, such as the garmon, because each button produces two notes, the diatonic scale can be covered in four buttons on a melody row. When the bellows are pressed, every button produces a note from the triad of the home key, in this case. The remaining notes of the scale are produced when the bellows are drawn or pulled. Since there are seven notes in the scale, and since each button produces two notes, the note pairings on the buttons change in each octave
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Melodeon
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Diatonic button accordion (German make, early 20th century).
Diatonic button accordion
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Three-row button accordion with 12 bass buttons
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1950s two-row instrument in C#/D by the Paolo Soprani company, of the type favoured by Irish musicians; grey celluloid finish.
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Mandolin
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A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or pick. It commonly has four courses of doubled metal strings tuned in unison, although five, the courses are normally tuned in a succession of perfect fifths. It is the member of a family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello. There are many styles of mandolin, but three are common, the Neapolitan or round-backed mandolin, the mandolin and the flat-backed mandolin. The round-back has a bottom, constructed of strips of wood. The carved-top or arch-top mandolin has a shallower, arched back. The flat-backed mandolin uses thin sheets of wood for the body, each style of instrument has its own sound quality and is associated with particular forms of music. Neapolitan mandolins feature prominently in European classical music and traditional music, carved-top instruments are common in American folk music and bluegrass music. Flat-backed instruments are used in Irish, British and Brazilian folk music. Some modern Brazilian instruments feature a fifth course tuned a fifth lower than the standard fourth course. There has also been a type and an instrument with sixteen-strings. Much of mandolin development revolved around the soundboard, pre-mandolin instruments were quiet instruments, strung with as many as six courses of gut strings, and were plucked with the fingers or with a quill. However, modern instruments are louder—using four courses of metal strings, the modern soundboard is designed to withstand the pressure of metal strings that would break earlier instruments. The soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections, there is usually one or more sound holes in the soundboard, either round, oval, or shaped like a calligraphic f. A round or oval sound hole may be covered or bordered with decorative rosettes or purfling, Mandolins evolved from the lute family in Italy during the 17th and 18th centuries, and the deep bowled mandolin, produced particularly in Naples, became common in the 19th century. Dating to around c.13,000 BC, a painting in the Trois Frères cave in France depicts what some believe is a musical bow. From the musical bow, families of stringed instruments developed, since each string played a note, adding strings added new notes, creating bow harps, harps. In turn, this led to being able to play dyads and chords, another innovation occurred when the bow harp was straightened out and a bridge used to lift the strings off the stick-neck, creating the lute
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An American A-style left-handed mandolin, with F-holes
Mandolin
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Modern Neapolitan bowlback mandolin manufactured by the
Calace family workshop.
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Mandolin with six courses of strings (2 strings per course), labeled Milanese at the museum.
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Advertisement for a Lyon and Healy made, Washburn brand mandolin from an 1897 short-stories magazine, The Black Cat.
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The Dubliners
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The Dubliners were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962. The band started off as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, named in honour of its founding member, the group line-up saw many changes over their fifty-year career. However, the success was centred on lead singers Luke Kelly and Ronnie Drew. The band garnered success with their lively Irish folk songs, traditional street ballads. The band were regulars on the scenes in both Dublin and London in the early 1960s, until they were signed to the Major Minor label in 1965 after backing from Dominic Behan. They went on to receive airplay on Radio Caroline, and eventually appeared on Top of the Pops in 1967 with hits Seven Drunken Nights. During this time the bands popularity began to spread across mainland Europe, the groups success remained steady right through the 1970s and a number of collaborations with The Pogues in 1987 saw them enter the UK Singles Chart on another two occasions. The Dubliners were instrumental in popularising Irish folk music in Europe, though they did not quite surpass the popularity of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in the United States. They influenced many generations of Irish bands, and their legacy can to this day be heard in the music of such as The Pogues, Dropkick Murphys. Much adored in their country, covers of Irish ballads by Ronnie Drew. One of the most influential Irish acts of the 20th century, they celebrated 50 years together in 2012, also in 2012, the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards bestowed them with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The Dubliners announced their retirement in the autumn of 2012, after 50 years of playing, following the death of the last of the founding members, Barney McKenna. However, the members of the group, with the exception of John Sheahan. As of 2016, there are two of the members still in this group, Seán Cannon and Eamonn Campbell. The Dubliners, initially known as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, formed in 1962, the change of name came about because of Ronnie Drews unhappiness with it, together with the fact that Luke Kelly was reading Dubliners by James Joyce at the time. Founding members were Drew, Kelly, Ciarán Bourke and Barney McKenna, Drew, McKenna and Thomas Whelan had originally teamed up for a fundraising concert and then went on to work in a revue with the Irish comedian John Molloy at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin. They used to sing songs between acts, before joining the Dubliners full-time, Kelly had spent some time playing at English folk clubs such as the Jug oPunch in Birmingham, run by the folk singer Ian Campbell. The group played at the Edinburgh Festival in 1963 and that led to them being featured on a BBC programme called Hootenanny, the extra exposure helped them to win a contract with Transatlantic Records, with whom they recorded their first album, called simply The Dubliners
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The Dubliners in 2005. From left to right:
Eamonn Campbell,
John Sheahan,
Barney McKenna,
Seán Cannon and
Patsy Watchorn
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O'Donoghue's Pub on Merrion Row, Dublin, where the group played regularly in the early 1960s.
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The original five members of the band.
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Spirit of The Dubliners Tour 2014
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Donnycarney
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Donnycarney or Donnycarny is a Northside suburb in the city of Dublin, Ireland. It is mostly residential, around 5 kilometres from the centre of Dublin and it is the home of GAA stadium, Parnell Park. Donnycarney is also a parish is in the Fingal South East deanery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin and it is served by Our Lady of Consolation Church. Donnycarney is bordered by Beaumont, Artane, Killester and Marino and it is mostly residential, located approximately 5 kilometres from the centre of Dublin. Donnycarney is well served by Dublin Bus -14,15,27, 27a, Killester and Clontarf Road Dart Stations are also nearby. There are small strips of shops along Collins Avenue West, Malahide Road, Donnycarney West has its own residents association Donnycarney West Community Association who won Pride of Place 2012. Secondary schools include St. Davids Boys Secondary School in Artane, a high-profile former TD for the area for 35 years was the former Taoiseach, the late Charles Haughey, whose son Seán also held a seat from 1992 to 2011. Donnycarney is also home to well known GAA clubs Craobh Chiaráin located in Donnycarney and St Vincents, Donnycarney Has 2 soccer clubs - Donnycarney United FC - a local kids football club and Donnycarney FC - whose teams play in the AUL League. Donnycarney was the home of Charles Haughey, who grew up on Belton Park Road in Donnycarney West. He subsequently moved to Raheny, then Grange Park in what was then Baldoyle, Donnycarney was also the location of his funeral service in 2006. Tommy Eglington, a former Irish footballer who played for Shamrock Rovers, Everton, as an international, Eglington also played for both Ireland teams - the FAI XI and the IFA XI. The members of the musical group U2 met and formed the band whilst attending Mount Temple Comprehensive School, the Chieftains frontman and founder Paddy Moloney was born and raised in Donnycarney. The Dubliners member Barney McKenna was born in Donnycarney, oscar winner Glen Hansards family lives in Donnycarney. Dublin hurler and all star winner Alan McCrabbe resides in Casino Park, the English-born judge Henry Draycott bought the manor of Donnycarney in the reign of Elizabeth I
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Our Lady of Consolation Roman Catholic church, Donnycarney.
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The Chieftains
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The Chieftains are a traditional Irish band formed in Dublin in November 1962, by Paddy Moloney, Sean Potts and Michael Tubridy. The band had their first rehearsals at Moloneys house, with Tubridy, Martin Fay, Paddy Moloney came out of Ceoltóirí Chualann, a group of musicians who specialised in instrumentals, and sought to form a new band. The group remained only semi-professional up until the 1970s and by then had achieved success in Ireland. In 1973, their popularity began to spread to the United States when their previous albums were released there by Island Records. They received further acclaim when they worked on the Academy Award-winning soundtrack to Stanley Kubricks 1975 film Barry Lyndon, the group continued to release successful records throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and their work with Van Morrison in 1988 resulted in the critically acclaimed album Irish Heartbeat. They went on to collaborate with many other musicians and singers, among them Luciano Pavarotti. The band have won six Grammys during their career and they were given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the prestigious BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2002, in 2012, they celebrated their 50th anniversary with the release of their most recent record Voice of Ages. The bands name came from the book Death of a Chieftain by Irish author John Montague, assisted early on by Garech Browne, they signed with his company Claddagh Records. They needed financial success abroad, and succeeded in this, as within a few years their third albums sleeve note section was printed in three languages, in 2012, they celebrated their 50th anniversary with an ambitious album and tour. The album, Voice of Ages, was produced by T-Bone Burnett and featured the Chieftains collaborating with musicians including Bon Iver, Paolo Nutini. It also included a collaboration with NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman playing the flute aboard the International Space Station as it orbited the earth, on 17 March, The Chieftains played in Carnegie Hall. The band have known for their vast work of collaborations with popular musicians of many genres, including Country music, Galician traditional music, Newfoundland music. In May 1986, they performed at Self Aid, a concert held in Dublin that focused on the problem of chronic unemployment which was widespread in Ireland at that time. In 1994, they appeared in Roger Daltreys production, album and video of A Celebration, The Music of Pete Townshend and they also performed with Canadian astronaut Cmdr. Chris Hadfield in Houston, TX on 15 February 2013, Hadfield sang and played guitar on Moondance from aboard the International Space Station. The band has won six Grammy Awards and been nominated eighteen times, in 2002 they were given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the UKs BBC Radio 2. Two of their singles have been hits in the UK Singles Chart. Have I Told You Lately reached No.71 in 1995, I Know My Love reached No.37 in 1999
The Chieftains
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Paddy Moloney pictured with
Bob Dylan, who is a fan of the band's work.
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The Chieftains performing in 2008
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Jazz
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Jazz is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in Blues and Ragtime. Since the 1920s jazz age, jazz has become recognized as a form of musical expression. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms, Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the Black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience, intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as one of Americas original art forms. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on different national, regional, and local musical cultures, New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass-band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. In the 1930s, heavily arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz, bebop emerged in the 1940s, shifting jazz from danceable popular music toward a more challenging musicians music which was played at faster tempos and used more chord-based improvisation. Cool jazz developed in the end of the 1940s, introducing calmer, smoother sounds and long, modal jazz developed in the late 1950s, using the mode, or musical scale, as the basis of musical structure and improvisation. Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining jazz improvisation with rock rhythms, electric instruments. In the early 1980s, a form of jazz fusion called smooth jazz became successful. Other styles and genres abound in the 2000s, such as Latin, the question of the origin of the word jazz has resulted in considerable research, and its history is well documented. It is believed to be related to jasm, a term dating back to 1860 meaning pep. The use of the word in a context was documented as early as 1915 in the Chicago Daily Tribune. Its first documented use in a context in New Orleans was in a November 14,1916 Times-Picayune article about jas bands. In an interview with NPR, musician Eubie Blake offered his recollections of the slang connotations of the term, saying, When Broadway picked it up. That was dirty, and if you knew what it was, the American Dialect Society named it the Word of the Twentieth Century. Jazz has proved to be difficult to define, since it encompasses such a wide range of music spanning a period of over 100 years. Attempts have been made to define jazz from the perspective of other musical traditions, in the opinion of Robert Christgau, most of us would say that inventing meaning while letting loose is the essence and promise of jazz. As Duke Ellington, one of jazzs most famous figures, said, although jazz is considered highly difficult to define, at least in part because it contains so many varied subgenres, improvisation is consistently regarded as being one of its key elements
Jazz
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Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) is considered one of the pivotal musicians in jazz for his contributions as a trumpet player, composer and singer.
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Double bassist
Reggie Workman, saxophone player
Pharoah Sanders, and drummer
Idris Muhammad performing in 1978
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Albert Gleizes, 1915, Composition pour Jazz, gouache on cardboard, mounted on Masonite, 73 x 73 cm,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Jazz
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In the late 18th-century painting
The Old Plantation, African-Americans dance to banjo and percussion.
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Mick Moloney
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Michael Mick Moloney is a traditional Irish musician and scholar. Born in Limerick, he was an important figure on the Dublin folk-song revival in the 1960s, in 1973, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has produced and performed on over seventy albums and acted as advisor for scores of festivals, in 1992, Moloney received a Ph. D. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. For his work in folklore, he received a National Heritage Fellowship from the NEA. In 1999, he was named Best Tenor Banjo Player by Frets magazine and he has taught ethnomusicology, folklore, and Irish studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, Villanova, and New York University. Founded in 2000 by Moloney, the Washington Square Harp and Shamrock Orchestra is based at New York University, the WSHSO plays traditional Irish music, with a focus on older tunes, tunes with history, and tunes with interesting stories attached. Moloney is the author of Far From the Shamrock Shore, The story of Irish American History Through Song released by Crown Publications in February 2002 with an accompanying CD on Shanachie Records. 1999 National Heritage Fellowship 2000 Pew Fellowships in the Arts 2013 Presidential Distinguished Service Awards for the Irish Abroad MickMoloney. com, exploring Broadways Early Irish Period, interview on NPRs Fresh Air
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Mick Moloney
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Eamonn Campbell
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Eamonn Campbell has been a member of The Dubliners since 1987. He was also in the Dubliners when they recorded their 25th anniversary show on The Late Late Show hosted by Gay Byrne and he is known as a guitarist and has a rough voice similar to the late Dubliner founding member Ronnie Drew. He is still touring with three other ex-Dubliners as The Dublin Legends, now that the name has been retired with the death of Barney McKenna. Eamonn is originally from Drogheda in County Louth, but now lives in Walkinstown and he is a regular drinker in famous Walkinstown Bar The Submarine. It was his suggestion that the Dubliners work with London Irish band The Pogues in the mid-1980s, thus giving them their biggest UK hit to date and an appearance on Top of the Pops. He has produced all of the Dubliners albums since 1987, as well as albums for many other Irish artists, including Foster and Allen, Brendan Shine, Daniel ODonnell and Paddy Reilly. He played locally with the Delta Boys, The Bee Vee Five and the Country Gents before joining Dermot OBrien, in 2002 Eamonn put a complaint to a Commission to Inquire into Sexual Abuse as he said he was abused by The Christian Brothers as a child. In an interview he said I felt emotional with hate at what this arsehole had got away with and he was abusing the whole class. I still havent heard anything back, Eamonn was the Grand Master for the 2009 Drogheda St Patricks Day Parade. In his younger years Eamonn taught guitar lessons at the Music Shop in Drogheda and his granddaughter Megan Campbell is a Republic of Ireland international
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Eamonn Campbell during the
Festival Interceltique de Lorient in 2014.
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John Sheahan
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John Sheahan is an Irish musician and composer and the last surviving member of the definitive five-member line-up of The Dubliners. He joined The Dubliners in 1964 and played with them until 2012 when The Dubliners name was retired following the death of founding member Barney McKenna, John Sheahan was born in Dublin on 19 May 1939. His father, a native of Glin, County Limerick, was a member of the Garda Síochána stationed in Dublin and he went to school to the local Christian Brothers in Marino, Dublin, where he received his first musical education, learning the tin whistle. This experience was shared with Paddy Moloney, who later founded The Chieftains, and Leon and Liam Rowsome, sons of the piper Leo Rowsome. When he was twelve years old he began to take an active interest in music. Enthusiastically supported and encouraged by his parents, he attended the Municipal School of Music in Dublin where he studied violin for more than five years. During this time he continued to maintain his interest in Irish traditional music and his interest in American bluegrass fiddle music must also have influenced his style, as can be heard in tunes like Flop Eared Mule, recorded with The Dubliners in 1968,1969 and 1983. Sheahan played with a number of bands around the country until he met The Dubliners in the early 1960s, at that time, the group was formed by Ronnie Drew, Barney McKenna, Ciarán Bourke and Luke Kelly. He joined the band in 1964, together with Bobby Lynch, both musicians had been playing during the interval at concerts and usually stayed on stage for the second half of the show. When Luke Kelly moved to England in 1964, Lynch was taken on as his temporary replacement and he is the only member of the Dubliners to have had a formal musical education. After 50 years of playing and after the death of founding member Barney McKenna, the last formation of the band featured Sheahan himself, Sean Cannon, Eamonn Campbell, Patsy Watchorn and Gerry OConnor. He was a member of the band for 48 years. In 2013 Sheahan went on tour with Jane and Shane in Denmark playing classical music and he also joined in some informal sessions in pubs in Dublin featuring other Irish musicians and Luke Kellys brother Jim Kelly. In April 2013 he had his own documentary on RTÉ about his life, in May he went into Dundalk Primary School to talk about his career with The Dubliners. In October 2013 Sheahan was on The Late Late Show on RTÉ with Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains and performed a reel together on the Tin Whistle. Sheahan said he was working on an album which would contain a collection of unrecorded compositions he had written over the past 50 years and was developing a book containing his poetry. He played at Templebar Tradfest in Dublin City Hall in January 2014, in April 2014, Sheahan was awarded two Irish Film and Television Awards for the television documentary John Sheahan - A Dubliner. On 10 April 2014 Sheahan was part of Ceiliúradh at which he and he sang a verse of the Auld Triangle and played the fiddle to accompany other musicians
John Sheahan
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John Sheahan on stage
John Sheahan
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John Sheahan Dubliners Tour
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For the Australian field hockey coach, see
John Sheahan (field hockey), for the Australian footballer, see
John Sheahan (footballer).
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Jim McCann (musician)
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James Jim McCann was an Irish entertainer and folk musician. As a young man, McCann attended University College Dublin as a student of medicine and he began to perform in folk clubs in the area, and, upon his return to Dublin, he joined a group called the Ludlow Trio in 1965. In the following year, the Ludlow Trio had a hit with their recording of Dominic Behan’s “The Sea Around Us”, which reached number one in the Irish charts. The Ludlow Trio broke up in the year, and McCann began a solo career, releasing an album, McCann. Amongst other pursuits, he spent the few years involving himself in theatrical productions. He released an album, McCanned, made a television special called Reflections of Jim McCann. It was on The McCann Man that he met fellow folk artist, during this appearance, Kelly did his only televised performance of the Phil Coulter song Scorn Not His Simplicity, a song that he chose to perform sparingly out of respect to the subject matter. McCann subsequently performed alongside Kelly in the original cast of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1973, in April 1974 Kelly asked McCann to join The Dubliners temporarily, to replace Ciarán Bourke during a period of illness. However, he became a permanent member soon afterwards, when Ronnie Drew left the group to pursue a solo career, McCann remained with The Dubliners until the end of 1979, during which he toured incessantly, also recording several albums with the group. He did rejoin The Dubliners in 2002 for their 40th anniversary tour and he continued to perform, tour, and record music as a solo artist, appearing on many television shows and achieving success with albums such as From Tara to Here and singles such as Grace. He rejoined the Dubliners in 2002 for their 40th anniversary album, although treatment for the illness was successful, the damage to his voice left him unable to sing. However, he collaborated with the Dubliners by taking the photographs for them, appearing as a compere in their concerts. During the Dubliners last concert in December 2012, he performed them as a guitarist. McCanns death was announced by his family on 5 March 2015 and he had been battling throat cancer for some time
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Andy Irvine (musician)
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Andrew Kennedy Andy Irvine is an Irish folk musician, singer-songwriter, and a founding member of popular bands Sweeneys Men, Planxty, Patrick Street, Mozaik, LAPD and Ushers Island. He plays the mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, harmonica and hurdy-gurdy, imbued with a sense of social justice, Irvine often selects or writes songs that are based on historical events and presented from the victims perspective. Some of these songs chronicle the abject living and working conditions imposed on groups of people, the emigrants, the migrant workers. Irvines songs also denounce worker deaths and industrial diseases, and lament the plight of hunted animals and his repertoire includes humorous songs, but also bittersweet ones of unrequited love, or of lovers cruelly separated or dramatically reunited. He also sings about famous racehorses, men or women masquerading in various disguises, a fantastical fox preying on young maidens, as a child actor, Irvine honed his performing talent from an early age and learned the classical guitar. He switched to music after discovering Woody Guthrie, also adopting the latter’s other instruments, harmonica. Along with Johnny Moynihan and Dónal Lunny, Irvine is one of the pioneers who adapted the Greek bouzouki—with a new tuning—into an Irish instrument, although touring mainly as a soloist, Irvine has also enjoyed great success in pursuing collaborations through many projects that have influenced contemporary folk music. He continues to tour and perform extensively in Ireland, Great Britain, Europe, North and South America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Andy Irvine was born in St Johns Wood, northwest London on 14 June 1942 to an Irish mother from Lisburn, County Antrim, and a Scottish father from Glasgow. His mother, Felice Lascelles, had been a comedy actress and Irvine would later say that she may have given up the stage. As a child, Irvine was given opportunities to appear on stage, TV, in the summer holidays of 1950, when he was eight years old, his first role was to play Jimmy in the film A Tale of Five Cities. At thirteen, he starred as Nokie in the ITV childrens series Round at the Redways, the same year, he was Eric Brandt in Escape to Happiness, for the Armchair Theatre programme and also played John Logie Baird as a boy in the film A Voice in Vision. In early 1958, Irvine featured as Archie Almond in five episodes of Run to Earth. Aged fifteen, he played Lord Heybrook in French Without Tears, for the Saturday Playhouse TV series and, soon after, was one of the Pygmies in Brouhaha, with Peter Sellers as the Sultan. In late 1959, he featured as Lanky Graham in Ask for King Billy and, in early 1960 and his mother had a stack of old, cracked 78s that he used to play on a wind-up gramophone. They were mainly songs from long forgotten musical comedies but I wish I had them now, Guthrie was to become an enduring influence on his music, on his choice of additional instruments and general outlook on life. She was the first person to call him Andy, and thereafter remained a conduit between him and Guthrie. During 1959, Irvine and Elliott also recorded audio tapes to send Guthrie and, after recording one of Guthries songs, Elliott exclaimed, Andy, just as Guthrie had once said to Elliott, Jack, you sound more like me than I do
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Dónal Lunny, Andy Irvine, Liam O'Flynn and Paddy Glackin as 'LAPD', March 2012.
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Howth
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Howth is a village and outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland. The district occupies the part of the peninsula of Howth Head. It is also a parish in the ancient barony of Coolock. Originally just a fishing village, Howth with its surrounding once-rural district is now a busy suburb of Dublin, with a mix of dense residential development. The only neighbouring district on land is Sutton, Howth is also home to one of the oldest occupied buildings in Ireland, Howth Castle. Howth has been a location for movies such as The Last of the High Kings, Boy Eats Girl. Howth is located on the peninsula of Howth Head, which begins around 13 kilometres east-north-east of Dublin, Howth is at the end of a regional road from Dublin and is one of the two northern termini of the DART suburban rail system. It is served by Dublin Bus, the name Howth is thought to be of Norse origin, perhaps being derived from the Old Norse Hǫfuð. Norse vikings colonised the eastern shores of Ireland and built the settlement of Dublin as a base between Scandinavia and the Mediterranean. Norse Vikings first invaded Howth in 819, after Brian Ború, the High King of Ireland, defeated the Norse in 1014, many Norse fled to Howth to regroup and remained a force until their final defeat in Fingal in the middle of the 11th century. Howth still remained under the control of Irish and localized Norse forces until the invasion of Ireland by the Anglo-Normans in 1169, without the support of either the Irish or Scandinavian powers, Howth was isolated and fell to the Normans in 1177. One of the victorious Normans, Armoricus Tristam, was granted much of the land between the village and Sutton, Tristam took on the name of the saint on whose feast day the battle was won - St Lawrence. He built his first castle near the harbour and the St. Lawrence link remains even today, the original title of Baron of Howth was granted to Almeric St. Lawrence by Henry II of England in 1181, for one Knights fee. Howth was a port from at least the 14th century. A popular tale concerns the pirate Gráinne OMalley, who was rebuffed in 1576 while attempting a courtesy visit to Howth Castle, in retaliation, she abducted the Earls grandson and heir, and as ransom she exacted a promise that unanticipated guests would never be turned away again. In the early 19th century, Howth was chosen as the location for the harbour for the packet ship. One of the arguments used against Howth by the advocates of Dún Laoghaire was that coaches might be raided in the badlands of Sutton, however, due to silting, the harbour needed frequent dredging to accommodate the packet and eventually the service was relocated to Dún Laoghaire. George IV visited the harbour in August 1821, on the 26 July 1914,900 rifles were landed at Howth by Robert Erskine Childers for the Irish Volunteers
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Aerial photo of Howth and harbour
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Nineteenth century postcard of Howth
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Howth Lighthouse and Ireland's Eye
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Trim, County Meath
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Trim is a town in County Meath, Ireland. It is situated on the River Boyne and has a population of 8,268, the town is noted for Trim Castle - the largest Cambro-Norman castle in Ireland. It was once the county town but today that honour belongs to Navan, One of the two cathedrals of the United Dioceses of Meath and Kildare — St Patricks cathedral — is located north of the river. Trim won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1972,1984, at an early date, a monastery was founded at Trim, which lay within the petty kingdom of the Cenél Lóegairi. When domestic politics endangered the position of Lommáns foundation, the church of Armagh assimilated Lommán into the dossier of St. Patrick, attackers burned the church several times in the twelfth century, during which it was refounded as an St. Marys Abbey under Augustinian rule. The abbey church was the sanctuary for Our Lady of Trim, the statue made Trim a major pilgrimage site from at least 1397. During the Reformation the statue was burned and Henry VIII dissolved the abbey, the abbeys bell tower, the Yellow Steeple, is the primary remnant of St. Marys. With the spelling Áth Truim, the bishopric is listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see. Its territory was joined to that of Meath Diocese, lying 61 m above sea level on the River Boyne, Trim became one of the most important Hiberno-Norman settlements in the Middle Ages. In the 15th century the Norman-Irish parliament met in Trim, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington is reputed to have been born in Dangan Castle between Trim and Summerhill, and a large column to him was erected in the town in 1817. Trim Castle is Irelands largest Norman castle and it was built in the late 12th century following the Norman invasion of Ireland. Trim and the lands were granted to Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath. Richard II of England stayed there before being ousted from power, once a candidate to be the countrys capital, the town has also occupied a role as one of the outposts of the Pale, and sessions of the Irish Parliament were sometimes held here, as in 1542. It was also designated by Elizabeth I of England as the location for a Protestant Dublin University. However this was revised by Sir Francis Drake, who advocated the case for locating the University in Dublin, in 1649 after the sacking of Drogheda, the garrison of Trim fled to join other Irish forces and the town was occupied by the army of Oliver Cromwell. There were many disturbances in neighbouring villages in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, most infamously the battle on the Hill of Tara. Trim was represented by Arthur Wellesley in the Irish Parliament from 1790 to 1797, following the Great Irish Famine of 1846–1849, the practices of agriculture in the hinterland altered, with a change in emphasis from tillage to stock raising. This resulted in a change in the life of Trim
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Newtown Abbey
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St Patrick's church, Trim Viewed from the castle's southern curtain wall.
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Trim courthouse
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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946
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Cover of The New York Times (November 15, 2012), with the headline story reporting on
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First published issue of New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851.
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The Times Square Building, The New York Times ' publishing headquarters, 1913–2007
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The New York Times newsroom, 1942
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Allmusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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AllMusic's
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Humphrey Bogart
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Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American screen and stage actor whose performances in 1940s films noir such as The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and The Big Sleep earned him status as a cultural icon. Bogart began acting in 1921 after a hitch in the U. S. Navy in World War I and little success in various jobs in finance, gradually he became a regular in Broadway shows in the 1920s and 1930s. When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogarts breakthrough as a leading man came in 1941 with High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon. His last film was The Harder They Fall, during a film career of almost 30 years, Bogart appeared in more than 75 feature films. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star of Classic American cinema, over his career, he received three Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, winning one. Bogart was born on Christmas Day,1899, in New York City, Belmont was the only child of the unhappy marriage of Adam Watkins Bogart, a Canandaigua, New York innkeeper, and his wife, Julia, a wealthy heiress. The name Bogart comes from the Dutch surname Bogaert, Belmont and Maud married in June 1898, he was a Presbyterian, of English and Dutch descent, and she was an Episcopalian of English heritage, and a descendant of Mayflower passenger John Howland. Young Humphrey was raised in the Episcopal faith, but was non-practicing for most of his adult life, the corrected January birthdate subsequently appeared—and in some cases, remains—in many otherwise authoritative sources. Sperber and Eric Lax documented, however, that Bogart always celebrated his birthday on December 25, Lauren Bacall confirmed in her autobiography that his birthday was always celebrated on Christmas Day, adding that he joked that he was cheated out of a present every year because of it. Bogarts father, Belmont, was a cardiopulmonary surgeon and his mother, Maud, was a commercial illustrator who received her art training in New York and France, including study with James McNeill Whistler. Later she became art director of the fashion magazine The Delineator and she used a drawing of baby Humphrey in a well-known advertising campaign for Mellins Baby Food. In her prime, she made over $50,000 a year, then a vast sum, the Bogarts lived in a fashionable Upper West Side apartment, and had an elegant cottage on a 55-acre estate on Canandaigua Lake in upstate New York. As a youngster, Humphreys gang of friends at the lake would put on theatricals, Humphrey had two younger sisters, Frances and Catherine Elizabeth. His parents were busy in their careers and frequently fought, very formal, they showed little emotion towards their children. Maud told her offspring to call her Maud not Mother, when pleased she lapped you on the shoulder, almost the way a man does, Bogart recalled. I was brought up very unsentimentally but very straightforwardly, a kiss, in our family, was an event. Our mother and father didnt glug over my two sisters and me. As a boy, Bogart was teased for his curls, tidiness, the pictures his mother had him pose for, the Little Lord Fauntleroy clothes she dressed him in
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Bogart in a publicity photo, 1945
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Birthplace plaque
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Bogart in the 1934 original theatrical trailer for
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Still from the
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Dead End (1937 film)
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Dead End is a 1937 crime drama film directed by William Wyler. It is an adaptation of the Sidney Kingsley 1935 Broadway play of the same name and it stars Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, and Sylvia Sidney. It is notable as being the first film appearance of the Dead End Kids, in the filthy slums of New York, wealthy people have built luxury apartments there because of the view of the picturesque East River. While they live in opulence, the destitute and dirt poor live nearby in crowded, at the end of the street is a dock on the East River, to the left are the luxury apartments and to the right are the slums. The Dead End Kids, led by Tommy Gordon, are a petty gang of street urchins who are already well onto a path to a life of crime. Members of the gang besides Tommy include, Dippy, Angel, Spit, T. B. and Milty, Spit is a bit malicious with a cruel streak and initially bullies the newcomer and takes his pocket change. However, Tommy eventually lets Milty join the gang, and he turns out to be both a loyal and generous friend, Dave Connell, raised on the same street as Martin, recognizes him and warns him to stay away, but Martin contemptuously ignores him. Dave, an architect who currently works odd jobs, is Drinas childhood friend. He is having an affair with a mans mistress, Kay Burton. Although Dave and Kay love each other, they know they cant be together because Dave cannot provide Kay with the kind of lifestyle she desires, meanwhile, the kids lure Philip, a rich kid from the apartments, into a cellar where they beat and rob him. When the boys father tries to intervene, Tommy winds up stabbing him in the arm and he escapes the police and goes into hiding. Martin is subsequently rejected by his mother, who denounces him as a murderer, and repulsed by his ex-girlfriend, Francie, despondent over the failed visit, he decides to kidnap the rich child for ransom to make the trip back worthwhile. Dave sees Martin and his accomplices planning the kidnapping and again warns him to leave, Martin knifes him and Hunk pushes him into the river. Managing to pull out of the river, Dave pursues the hoodlums, knocking out Hank. Among a hail of bullets, he manages to kill Martin who falls onto the street below. As the police and a crowd of people gather around Martins body, Spit exonerates himself by informing the police that the man was cut by Tommy, who has returned to say goodbye to Drina before running away. Meanwhile, Kay approaches Dave asking him to go away with her, Dave refuses, and Kay returns to the man whom she doesnt love, but can provide her with financial security. Tommy hears of Spits betrayal and tries to him the mark of the squealer
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Theatrical release poster
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Ronnie Drew
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Joseph Ronald Ronnie Drew was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor who achieved international fame during a fifty-year career recording with The Dubliners. He is most recognised for his vocals on the single Seven Drunken Nights. He was recognisable for his beard and his voice, which was once described by Nathan Joseph as being like the sound of coke being crushed under a door. Ronnie Drew was born in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin in 1934, a quip that Andy Irvine relayed in his song ODonoghues. Drew was educated at CBS Eblana and used to mitch and cycle up to Leopardstown Racecourse, despite his aversion to education, he was considered the most intelligent in his class by schoolfriend and future Irish film censor, Sheamus Smith. Drew had also sung as a boy soprano before his voice broke, in the 1950s, Drew moved to Spain to teach English and learn Spanish and flamenco guitar. His interest in music began at the age of 19. In 1962, he founded the Ronnie Drew Group with Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna and they soon changed their name to The Dubliners—with John Sheahan joining shortly afterwards to form the definitive line-up—and quickly became one of the best known Irish folk groups. They played at first in ODonoghues Pub in Merrion Row, Dublin 2 where they were accompanied by Mary Jordan on the spoons and vocalist Ann Mulqueen. Mary Jordans mother, Peggy Jordan, introduced them to the Abbey Tavern in Howth and they also played across the road in the Royal Hotel, at all-night parties in Peggys large house in Kenilworth Square in Rathgar, and in John Molloys flat at Ely Place. He rejoined The Dubliners in 1979 and left for good in 1995 and he made several television appearances with the group between 2002–05. From 1995 onwards, Drew pursued a solo career and he recorded with many artists, including Christy Moore, The Pogues, Antonio Breschi, Dropkick Murphys, Eleanor Shanley and others. He did a number of one-man shows—he was accompanied by various guitarists—during this period, such as Songs and Stories, Ronnie, I Hardly Knew Ya and Ronnie. These shows consisted of stories about such as Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and Seán OCasey. He fronted a campaign to encourage the use of Dublins light-rail infrastructure and, before that and he narrated a retelling of the great Irish Myths and Legends—scripted by Steven Byrne—over a six CD set in 2006. He also narrated the stories of Oscar Wilde in his voice for a series released on CD by the News of the World newspaper. Both were re-released as CD box sets in 2010, on 22 August 2006, Drew was honoured in a ceremony where his hand prints were added to the Walk of Fame outside Dublins Gaiety Theatre. In September 2006, Drew was reported to be in ill-health after being admitted to St. Vincents Hospital, Dublin, the Evening Herald reported that his apparent illness was due to years of heavy drinking
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Ronnie Drew in 2006
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Luke Kelly
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Luke Kelly was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor from Dublin, Ireland. Born into a household in Dublin city, Kelly moved to England in his late teens. Returning to Dublin in the 1960s, he is noted as a member of the band The Dubliners. Becoming known for his singing style, and sometimes political messages. Luke Kelly was born into a family in Lattimore Cottages at 1 Sheriff Street. His grandmother, who was a MacDonald from Scotland, lived with the family until her death in 1953 and his father worked all his life in Jacobs biscuit factory and enjoyed playing football. Both Luke and his brother Paddy played club Gaelic football and soccer as children, Kelly left school at thirteen and after a number of years of odd-jobbing, he went to England in 1958. Working at steel fixing with his brother Paddy on a site in Wolverhampton. He worked odd jobs from oil barrel cleaning to vacuum salesman, the first folk club he came across was in the Bridge Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne in early 1960. Having already acquired the use of a banjo, he started memorising songs, in Leeds he brought his banjo to sessions in McReadys pub. The folk revival was under way in England, at the centre of it was Ewan MacColl who scripted a radio programme called Ballads, a revival in the skiffle genre also injected a certain energy into folk singing at the time. On a trip home he went to a fleadh cheoil in Milltown Malbay on the advice of Johnny Moynihan and he listened to recordings of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. He also developed his political convictions which, as Ronnie Drew pointed out after his death, as Drew also pointed out, he learned to sing with perfect diction. Kelly befriended Sean Mulready in Birmingham and lived in his home for a period, Mulready was a teacher who was forced from his job in Dublin because of his communist beliefs. Mulready had strong music links, a sister, Kathleen Moynihan was a member of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, and he was related by marriage to Festy Conlon. Mulreadys brother-in-law, Ned Stapleton, taught Kelly The Rocky Road to Dublin, Kelly bought his first banjo, which had five strings and a long neck, and played it in the style of Pete Seeger and Tommy Makem. At the same time, Kelly began a habit of reading and he got involved in the Jug OPunch folk club run by Ian Campbell. He befriended Dominic Behan and they performed in clubs and Irish pubs from London to Glasgow
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Luke Kelly in 1967.
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A Drop of the Hard Stuff
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A Drop of the Hard Stuff is the debut studio album of the Irish folk group The Dubliners. It was originally released in 1967 on Major Minor Records, when it was reissued, it was renamed Seven Drunken Nights because the first track became a hit single. The album reached number 5 in the UK album chart, the album cover provides biographical sketches of the band line-up, Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna, Ciarán Bourke and John Sheahan. Four of the songs are sympathetic to the IRA, but this was before The Troubles properly began in Ireland, most of the songs concern rogues and drinking. Weila Waile is a murder ballad, sung with a certain jollity. All songs traditional with the exception of The Travelling People which was written by English performer Ewan MacColl
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Cover to the original edition of the album
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More of the Hard Stuff
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More of the Hard Stuff is an album by The Dubliners, originally released in 1967. The line-up consists of Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna, Ciarán Bourke, true to its title, five of the songs concern hard drinking. One of the songs was written by Brendan Behan, another by his brother Dominic, the album reached number 8 in the UK album charts in 1967, and stayed in the charts for 23 weeks
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At It Again
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At It Again is an album by The Dubliners and was released on the Major Minor label in 1968. It featured The Irish Navy, a song with lyrics co-written by Ronnie Drew and Luke Kelly. Barney McKenna and Ciarán Bourke also feature on the album and it was re-released under the title Seven Deadly Sins. The order of the tracks varies in different re-releases, patrick I Wish I Were Back in Liverpool Darby OLeary Go to Sea No More
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Revolution (The Dubliners album)
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Revolution is the title of the tenth album by The Dubliners. It was their second to be produced by Phil Coulter and this was a landmark in their career. Their sound had developed and Coulter, as well as playing piano on the record, had brought in other instrumentalists as well, alabama 58 The Captains and the Kings School Days Over Sé Fáth Mo Bhuartha Scorn Not His Simplicity For What Died the Sons of Róisín. Joe Hill Ojos Negros The Button Pusher The Bonny Boy The Battle of the Somme/Freedom Come-All-Ye Biddy Mulligan The Peat Bog Soldiers
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Double Dubliners
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Double Dubliners is The Dubliners ninth studio album. It is also known as Alive and Well, the title it was released under on the Polydor label Its the Dubliners site for the album, a standout track here is a recitation by Ronnie Drew of Pádraig Pearses poem The Rebel. This album features the original members, other notable tracks here are The Sun Is Burning and The Night Visiting Song, both sung by Luke Kelly. In December 1983, The Night Visiting Song would become the song to be performed by Luke Kelly with The Dubliners on Irish television
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