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Sound Alternative series concert is part of the Williams Center’s 25th anniversary season
Irish singer Maura O’Connell joins the all female Celtic ensemble Cherish the Ladies for a special evening of An Irish Homecoming 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 7 in the Williams Center for the Arts. This Sound Alternative series performance is part of the Williams Center’s 25th anniversary season.
Tickets are free for Lafayette students, $6 for students at LVAIC schools, $4 for faculty and staff, and $20 for the public. They can be obtained by calling the Williams Center box office at (610) 330-5009.
This special program includes a powerhouse collection of guest artists, including fiddler Liz Caroll, guitarist John Doyle, and an all-star ensemble of Celtic dancers.
With a unique blend of virtuosi instrumental talents, beautiful vocals, captivating arrangements, and stunning step dancing, Cherish the Ladies combines all the facets of Irish traditional culture and puts it forth in a humorous and entertaining package. The group has recorded 11 albums, including a collaboration with the Boston Pops Symphony which led to a 1999 Grammy nomination. They have performed at concert halls across the globe, and have appeared on CBS This Morning, Good Morning America, Evening at Pops, C-Span, PBS, National Public Radio, and the BBC.
O’Connell received a Grammy nomination for her 1989 album, Helpless Heart. She has 10 other solo albums. She also appeared as an Irish migrant street singer in Martin Scorsese’s 2002 film The Gangs of New York.
WDIY 88.1 FM, Lehigh Valley Community Public Radio, is the media partner for this concert.
The 2008–2009 Performance Series at Lafayette College is supported in part by gifts from Friends of the Williams Center for the Arts; by provisions of the Josephine Chidsey Williams Endowment, the J. Mahlon and Grace Buck Fund, the Croasdale Fund, the Class of ’73 Fund, the Alan and Wendy Pesky Artist-in-Residence Program, the James Bradley Fund, and the Ed Brunswick Jazz Fund; and by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Dexter and Dorothy Baker Foundation, and New England Foundation for the Arts. Special thanks to the F.M. Kirby Foundation for extraordinary support of the 25th anniversary season, and to Joan Moran and the Amaranth Foundation for support of the Ravi Shankar commission.