Celtic Cousins Aoife Clancy & Robbie O'Connell

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Encore performances of the Celtic Cousins

Aoife Clancy and Robbie O”Connell

at the Linden Tree on May 2nd.

The Linden Tree Coffeehouse announces the return of the Celtic Cousins to their stage on Saturday, May 2 at 8 pm. Aoife Clancy is the daughter of the late Bobby Clancy and Robbie O’Connell is her cousin who performed with the Clancy Brothers at Carnegie Hall and other celebrated venues. We welcome them back to the Linden Tree’s 30th year celebration. Reservations are recommended.

In 2004, Clancy and O’Connell were invited to perform at the Linden Tree Coffeehouse. They each had played solo gigs previously but organizers of the venue thought the cousins come to play on the same evening. They enjoyed the night that they began Celtic Cousin nights in other coffeehouse venues as well.

Since 1977 Robbie O’Connell has performed both solo and as a member of the Clancy Brothers & Robbie O’Connell, Moloney O’Connell & Keane, The Green Fields of America, Clancy, O’Connell & Clancy, and Aengus. He has recorded fourteen albums for such labels as RCA, Vanguard and Green Linnet, and he has appeared on an additional seven compilation albums. Winner of the Boston Music Award as Outstanding Celtic Act, he has appeared at almost every major venue in the USA from New York’s famed Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles. He has played almost every major festival, from Milwaukee Irish Fest to the New York Guinness Fleadh and from the Skagen Festival in Denmark to the Los Angeles Irish Fair. Denmark, Germany, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic.

It has been said of Robbie that he is a songwriter of vision. He has the ability to take an everyday experience and turn it into a song. His material is melodic and often contains his keen sense of humour.

Aoife Clancy (pronounced “Eefa”) brings a refreshing new voice to folk music, one that ranges from traditional Irish songs to ballads and contemporary folk. Aoife comes from the small town of Carrick-on-Suir, in Co Tipperary, Ireland, where her musical career began at an early age. Her father Bobby Clancy of the legendary Clancy Brothers, placed a guitar in her hands at age ten, and by age fourteen was playing with her father in nearby pubs.

Now with seven recordings under her belt in the last decade, Aoife has clearly established herself as one of the Divas of Irish and contemporary Folk Music. She has recorded two solo projects “Its about Time” and “Soldiers and Dreams” on Rego Records. On her debut CD ” It’s About Time,” Aoife presents some traditional favorites, such as “Factory Girl” and “Mrs. McGrath,” but she also presents a sassy rendition of Leon Rosselson’s “Don’t Get Married Girls.”

As one reviewer remarked, “she has a breadth of styles that make her concerts fascinating. Her singing would melt packed ice with it’s warmth and richness” – Mike Jackson, Canberra Times. On Aoife’s second Rego solo album, “Soldiers and Dreams,” Al Riess, from Dirty Linen magazine, wrote: “Solders and Dreams has a contemporary-meets-traditional-music feel and Clancy’s smooth, expressive singing works both ways- ensuring a successful merger of the two approaches and an enjoyable listening pleasure”.

Thanks to support in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Wakefield Chapter, tickets will be $20, students under 13 $10. Doors will open at 7:15. Home made baked goods and beverages will be sold prior to the show and during intermission.

The Linden Tree Coffeehouse is located at the Unitarian-Universalist Church, 326 Main Street, Wakefield. For more information about the show or to reserve tickets, call 781-246-2836 or visit www.lindentreecoffeehouse.org.