Captain Mackey's Goatskin and Stringband

APPEARING AT BENEDICTINE COLLEGE
THURSDAY MARCH 11th at 7:30 pm.
MAYBEE THEATER in ST BENEDICT HALL.

CAPTAIN MACKEY'S GOAT SKIN AND STRING BAND
Featuring Jimmy Crowley and Mairtin de Cogain

Playing songs from their recent CD
Soldiers Songs - The Irish Abroad and Soldering.

Captain Mackey's Goatskin and Stringband takes its name from a legendary Irish-American Fenian and a legendary Cork folk band from the sixties, Paddy's Goatskin and Stringband, which had a seminal effect on Jimmy's musical life. The Stringband's membership is fleshed out by the addition of Irish fiddler Valerie Plested and guitarist Don Penzien for a mighty sound, indeed!

Jimmy Crowley and Mairtin de Cogain, are two of the most renowned Irish musicians playing today. Their most recent CD: Soldiers Songs - The Irish Abroad and Soldering, consist of traditional songs about the irish throughout the world and at war. This performance of song and story provides a provocative introduction to the Irish Diaspora and the fact that many Irish, to escape the dire conditions of their homeland, left Ireland from the 17th Century on through the 20th, to join foreign armies. Their dreams, joys, sorrows, and longing for their homeland are captured in the songs that were sung around campfires and on the road.

All are invited to this evening concert. Students Staff and Faculty are free. The suggested donation for community members is from $5-10 dollars.

Corkmen Máirtín de Cógáin and Jimmy Crowley have given their whole lives to the promulgation and nurture of the ballad. Both men hail from the rebel county of Cork and now reside in America. Máirtín and Jimmy proudly speak the Irish language and have won degrees in the subject from the University of Ireland.

Máirtín is a founding member of The Fuchsia Band who have taken many a festival by storm in America. A consummate story-teller, actor, singer and musician, he can be seen and heard in the hit movie, The Wind that Shakes the Barley about the Irish War of Independence and subsequent Civil War.

Jimmy Crowley is reckoned to be something of a legend in Irish music from his earlier work with Stokers Lodge, described by Micheál Ó Súilleabháin as "an icon in Irish music". He has recorded ten albums of music, is a committed songwriter and a song collector; and has found in Máirtín an able partner and counterfoil for the respect and commitment they both have for all branches of the song tradition from the bardic, Gaelic songs to the present day revival.

Find out more about the band at http://www.captainmackey.com

Sponsored by the Benedictine College Convocation Arts Committee.
For more information, please contact John Bunch (jbunch@benedictine.edu or 913-426-3445.)

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