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AN
EVENING OF IRISH LOVE AND LYRICS
with
The
heart of Ireland is to be found in its music
and in its words, and on this evening of storytelling
and song we will bring you to that place where
words and music meet. We will visit for a
while with some of Ireland's greatest writers
and poets and treat you to some of Ireland's
most beloved songs. This is an evening of
music and storytelling not to be missed!
Louise
Lincoln Kerr Cultural Center of Arizona State
University
6110 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85253
Tickets: $18.00 - $25.00, Children ($12.00/$14.00)
Available through the Kerr Center (480) 596-2660
and
all Ticketmaster outlets.
Stage and screen actor Redmond
Gleeson was born in Dublin
where he began his acting career. His many
movies include John Huston's The Dead, Young
Gun 2, Dreamscape, Cattle Annie & Little
Britches, The Dorothy Day Story, Alcatraz,
A Foreign Affair, Project V.I.P.E.R., and
St. Patrick's Day. He has produced, directed
and acted in an adaptation of Bloomsday -
James Joyce which has toured for the past
17 years. In June of 2004, Redmond starred
in the world premiere of An Evening of Irish
Love and Lyrics, developed by Irish theatre
director Mary Curtin for Kerry Records Productions.
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Philip
Brady,
has toured with and starred in the International
dance phenomenon "Lord of the Dance"
throughout North America. He is a five-times
overseas world champion dancer, three times
North American champion dancer and Canadian
Irish Dance Champion for ten consecutive years.
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The Celtic fiddle, flute playing
and dancing of the hugely talented Kathleen
Keane will leave you wondering
if it is possible to be so gifted.The daughter
of Galway parents, Chicago-born Kathleen Keane,
"virtuoso violinist"....Â
"prrodigy on the whistle" has shared
the stage with many great traditional Irish
artists including Jimmy Keane, Mick Moloney,
Robbie O' Connell, Johnny Cunningham and Eileen
Ivers. Kathleen is now based in Los Angeles
where she continues to pursue her musical
and acting career. www.kathleenkeane.com
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Irish Soprano Margaret
O' Carroll is one of the
few classically trained singers in traditional
Irish music today. Now residing in Los Angeles,
her main focus is the performance and recording
of Irish song.
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Pianist /loveandlyrics.htm#Parker
will join Redmond, Philip, Kathleen and Margaret
for what promises to be a wonderful evening
in Ireland. More:
www.kerryrecords.com/loveandlyrics.html
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Redmond was born in
Dublin, Ireland where he began his acting career.
He arrived in Los Angeles in 1968 from Aspen, Colorado,
where he was co-founder of the High Country Players.
Since coming to Los
Angeles he has appeared in many productions, including
Look Homeward Angel (Pasadena Playhouse), The Changing
Room (Actors for Themselves) at the Odyssey Theatre,
The Venus of Menschen Falls (LAAT), Travesties (Richmond
Shepherd Theatre), Buddy's Girl (Second Stage) for
which he won a Drama-Logue Award, and Kevin’s
bed (Laguna Playhouse) for which he won the Garland
Award. He produced, directed and acted in an adaptation
of Bloomsday - James Joyce which he co-wrote with
T.S.Kerrigan for his company Ray of Light Productions,
which has toured for the past 17 years. Feature
films include John Huston's The Dead, Young Gun
2, Dreamscape, Cattle Annie & Little Britches,
The Dorothy Day Story, Tom Horn, The Octagon, Steel,
and Pipe Dreams. He also co-starred with Piper Laurie
in St. Patrick's Day. Redmond recently completed
the independent films A Foreign Affair and Project
V.I.P.E.R. Television credits include Movies of
the Week: Hoffa, The Sinatra Story, Alcatraz, A
Rumor of War, Mae West, Wanted: The Sundance Woman,
and Starflight 1. His episodic television credits
include MASH, Columbo, Law & Order, Cagney and
Lacey, St. Elsewhere, Lou Grant, Unsolved Mysteries,
Kojak, and Sirens. In June of 2004, Redmond starred
in the world premiere of An Evening of Irish Love
and Lyrics, developed by Irish theatre director
Mary Curtin for Kerry Records. Most recently Redmond
starred in Kerry Records production of A Grand Irish
Variety Concert at The Shiley Theater, San Diego
and The United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco.
In February and March, 2005 Redmond will tour with
A Grand Irish Variety Concert for Kerry Records.
Redmond lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Mardiah,
who is an artist and the mother of their ten children.
Philip Brady (Irish
Dancer)
Philip Brady - spent
the better half of his career devoted to the promotion
and preservation of Irish Dance and Culture.
Philip began dancing
at the age of 10 in Dublin, Ireland. He spent the
next 15 Years developing what was to become a most
extraordinary competitive dance career. In 1994,
Philip resigned from competitive dance and turned
his focus to teaching. He began as an Assistant
instructor under the tutelage of his sister,
Gloria Brady, in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1996, Philip
Movied to Winnipeg, Manitoba to expand the already
successful Dance Company Known as the Brady Academy
of Irish Dance. His accomplishments as a competitor
and credentials as a true professional, have become
instrumental in show-casing the beauty and excitement
that is Irish Dance.
In 1997, Philip returned
to the stage as a competitor to compete at the North
America Irish Dance Championships held in Vancouver,
Canada. Like all true competitors, the many months
of training and dedication to his craft paid off.
He was rewarded with first place finish as the Men's
1997.98 North American Irish Dance Champion.
Among a myriad of accomplishments
during Philip's competitive years, he has been a
five-time Overseas World Champion, a three-time
North American Champion and has won the Canadian
Irish Dance Championship 10 consecutive years.
In 1999, Philip began
touring extensively with the International Dance
Phenomena "Lord of the Dance". He spent
the first half of the season touring with the North
American troupe and then later settled in to the
rigorous schedule preforming two to three shows
a day in Las Vegas.
These days, he continues
to perform whenever possible, with such talent as
the Chieftains, but mostly remains focused on the
Brady Academy of Irish Dance and developing and
enriching the abilities of his students. He has
produced numerous champion dances in solo and ceili
dancing and travels extensively througout North
America directing workshops.
His success cannot
only be measured by his achievements, but by the
passion he displays, and intense fulfilment he has
achieved in his art. It is his true love for his
culture and dedication to Irish Dance that motivates
him to succeed.
Kathleen
Keane (Celtic Fiddle)
Once in a while, America
produces an exceptional artist with tremendous versatility
and talent. Such an artist is Chicago-born Kathleen
Keane. Called a "child prodigy on the whistle"
(Martin Hayes) "virtuoso violinist, one of
the world's finest Celtic fiddlers" (Chicago
Tribune), Kathleen has won numerous 
American
and International awards. She joined Gaelic Storm
in 2000, wrote, sang, played and arranged for their
album Tree which went to # 2 on the Billboard World
Music chart. She co-wrote, sang, produced and performed
The Longing, which appeared on Windham Hill's Celtic
Christmas Silver Anniversary album, staying at #1
on Billboard's World Music chart for three weeks.
Kathleen has shared the stage with many great traditional
Irish artists including Jimmy Keane, Mick Moloney,
Robbie O' Connell, Johnny Cunningham and Eileen
Ivers. She tours with the Celtic fusion band Bad
Haggis and is also a member of the traditional group
Clann na Gael. You can see and hear Kathleen play
in two feature films, "The Road to Perdition"
and "Backdraft", and she has just played
on the movie soundtrack for Universal’s, “Cinderella
Man”, starring Russell Crowe. In June of 2004,
Kathleen starred in the world premiere of An Evening
of Irish Love and Lyrics, developed by Irish theatre
director Mary Curtin for Kerry Records. Most recently
Kathleen starred in Kerry Records production of
A Grand Irish Variety Concert at The Shiley Theater,
San Diego and The United Irish Cultural Center,
San Francisco. Kathleen is based in Los Angeles
and continues to pursue her musical and acting career.
She has just signed with The Levin Agency for Commercial
and Theatrical representation.
Margaret
O'Carroll (Soprano)
Irish Soprano, Margaret
O'Carroll, a Gold Medallist at the Dublin Feis Ceoil,
began her voice and piano studies with her mother,
Elizabeth, and continued at the Royal Irish Academy
of Music, in Dublin, and the Cork School of Music.
Margaret credits her Wexford-born mother 
for
her deep love of storytelling. "She taught
me how to sing a song, how to tell a story. 'Sing
from your heart' she would say."
Miss O'Carroll has
an impressive performance history in her native
Ireland, including oratorio (she sang her first
Messiah with the late, great Irish tenor Frank Patterson),
light opera, concerts, recitals, and tours with
the National Folk Theatre of Ireland.
Margaret is one of
the few classically trained singers in traditional
Irish
music today. Now a resident of Los Angeles, her
main focus is the performance and recording of Irish
song.
In 2002 her debut CD
'Songs My Mother Taught Me, A Collection of Irish
Songs' was submitted to the 45th Annual GRAMMY Awards
Committee by Kerry Records for consideration in
six categories including Song Of The Year and Best
Traditional Folk Album.
"Margaret, whose
range is something to wonder at...
will be heard of again and again."
Cork Examiner
Christine
Parker (Pianist)
Christine Parker studied
piano and viola in her native England, gained her
Bachelor's and Master's 
Degrees
in Music at Cambridge University, and, as a student,
she was a founder/member and repetiteur with the
University opera group.
In London she studied
voice with Heddle Nash and joined the Ambrosian
Singers with whom she made hundreds of recordings,
concert appearances and broadcasts, often serving
as rehearsal accompanist for Benjamin Britten, Sir
John Barbirolli, Sir Georg Solti and others. She
studied with Simon Preston and was organist at the
Carmelite Church, Kensington for 16 years. In addition,
she coached leading British singers in opera, oratorio
and lieder.
In 1980, after relocating
to Los Angeles, Christine Parker sang with Roger
Wagner's Master Chorale, was a studio accompanist
and an opera and oratorio coach. Now a resident
of Scottsdale, Arizona, she continues to be active
in music and returns to Los Angeles for special
concert work.
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