I had the immense privilege of seeing Joanna Newsom perform at the Pop Montreal festival in 2006, soon after the release of her magnificent album Ys. Having listened to her cryptically opaque, playfully verbose,...
After a wonderful recording and concert tour during September and early October, Claire Roche is returning to Ireland to plan her recording and concert projects for the rest of this year and through 2008.
These will be to the USA for a month next March, back to...
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Claire Roche, of Dublin, Ireland, has become very popular in Eastern Australia especially through the release of her CD, "Dancing In The Wind", a set of W.B. Yeats poems set to music and...
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"Who wouldn’t, in his position? Her name is Claire Jones and she is the third Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales since the Prince revived this historic role seven years ago. Jones’s first gig under the terms of her new deal was last night, at a black-tie dinner...
I have to admnit that this is the first time I have really listened when I heard about Joanna Newsom. She is a 20-something harpist who dazzles crowds all over the place with her alternative take on interpeting...
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