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1 996 Committees Acknowledgements Helpful lnformation for Philadelphia Ceili Group Ed Licinit Festival Goers President The Philadelphia Ceili Group gratefully Festival Consultant Steve Winick Welcome to our twenty-second acknowledges support from the following annual festival. We are trying to Adninistration Nancy Gallagher people and organizations in presenting make your day as enjoyable as Bulk Mailing Larry Klock this year's festival: possible and hope the following Gate Bill Keane information will help. If you Grants Greg Duffy Murphy's Irish Stout and lrish Amber have any questions, please stop Hospitality Darcy Fair Friendly Sons of St. Patrick at the information booth near Evelvn Drvbureh John McShain Charities the main gate. Information Loretta Gaughan Rosemarie Timoney Please see map for locations George McCullough, DUTV 54, of first aid, rest rooms, food and Masters of Ceremony Myron Bretholz Tommy Moffit Drexel University beverages, and record and Ceili Steve Winick J. Raisch & Son Group T-shirt sales. Tom Slattery Cannstatter Club - Philadelphia For directions to a public Parkina Kate Krout telephone, please check at , Programming information booth. General: Greg Duffy, Ed Licinit, No coolers are to be brought Joan McKenty Ed Reavy Legacy: Roy Rogers onto festival site. Harpers: Joanna Mell No one under 21 will be ~ewGeneration: permitted to purchase alcoholic Dancers: Eileen Henry 1996 Committees Musicians: Chris Brennan Hagy beverages. New Tunes: L.E. McCullouah Stqe hnhgement No pets (seeing-eye dogs Main Stage Mary Lou McGurk Program Book & Flyer excepted) are permitted on Workshop Kim and Jim Mowery Editors Ed Licinit, Joan McKenty festival grounds. Dance Area Kathy Lenahan Design Pc Production Rill Masi Dance Area Musicians John Stapleton Please help keep the festival Ad Sales Greg Duffy Technical Ed Licinit site clean. Use designated trash Publicity Bill Stein cans. Tickets Lorraine Quinn Sales Daytime activities end at 6 Vendom/Crafts Maggie Quigg CDs/Tapes/Records Dan & Kim Flynn PM; evening dancing ends at Becky Baum T-shirts Volunteers Anne &Joe Lang 11 PM. Security Chairs Kristin Gilkeson, Mike Kelly Web Master Bill McKenty Site Supervisors Nathan Lerner Brian Quinn Sound Dean Languell, Scott Natters The Philadelphia Ceili Croup's 1996 Festival Home page: http:/Jw.netaxs.comJ-wrnckenty KENNY COLDSTEIN MEADOW STAGE LESSIONS SESSIONS VENDORS PAVILION TENTS MONUMENT Please Note: In the event of a rainy day, the Main Stage activities will be moved inside to the Dance Hall stage, while the Dance Schedule will be followed in a room directly below. Dance Stage Music Manager: Noon Harpers Showcase with Sinead ni Argadain, Debbie john Stapleton Brewin-Wilson, Kathy DeAngelo, Joanna Mell and Ellen Tepper Noon Introduction to Irish Dancing 1:00 New Generation Music and Dance 2:00 Danny Flynn & &en ~c~irr 1 :00 Intermediate Ceili 2:30 Mick Moloney, Zan McLeod and John Williams - - 2:00 Open Ceili 3:00 Andy lwine 3:30 Paddy Keenan &~i~el~tevens- 3:00 Step Dance Workshop: John Jennings 4:00 Slow Airs and Laments Workshop with Sinead ni Argadain, - - Mark Donnelly, Winifred Horan, L.E. McCullough, Owen 4:00 Set Dance Workhop: Fiona Dore-Buckley McGirr, Tomas Standeven, Ellen Tepper- - 'nd John Williams 5:00 Craobh Rua 5:00 Killer Cedi Lesson: Grace Ann Coyle - 5:30 New Generation Music and Dance 6:00 Set Workshop: Jim Keenan 6:40 EVENING CONCERT - Reavy Legacy 8:00 Evening Ceili Ed to Brian Conway, Billy McComiskey, Zan McLeod, 11 :oo L.E. McCullough and Mick Moloney Paddy Keenan and Nigel Stevens Craobh Rua Andy lwine Solas 12:OO Donegal Fiddles with David Abe, 1:00 Crash Course in the lrish Language 12:OO John Kelly Memorial Session Roisin Harrigan and Caomhmin for beginners with Leo Mohan, led by Kitty Kelly MacAoidh Tom Cahill and Padraic McGill 1:00 Darcy Fair 12:30 Hardshoe and Percussion Workshop 2:00 "The History of lrish Social Dancing" with Myron Bretholz, Chris Carpenter, with JimKeenan 1:30 Frank Malley Ed Clark, Cait Currie, Brian Duffy, Danny Flynn, Charlie Gaffney and 3:00 "The Belfast Harp Festival of 1792" 2:00 "Harp & Bardic Tradition Workshop" Roisin Harrigan with Ellen Tepper with Sinead ni Argadan, Kathy - - DeAngelo, Joanna Mell, Deidre 1:00 Favorite jigs, Reels and Hornpipes 3:30 "Irish Storytelling" with Tom Slattery Salkind and Ellen Tepper Workshop with Charlie Gaffney, Roisin Harrigan, Kitty Kelly, Fintan 4:00 "Irish Monastic Nature Poetry" with 3:00 Plectrum Workshop with Malone, Owen McGirr, Kevin Helen Kennedy Chris Carpenter, Brian Connolly, McGillian, Zan McLeod and Tomas --- John Doyle, AI Keller, John Lavalley, Standeven 5:00 St. Brigid's Crosses with Kitty Kelly, Fintan Malone and Bill McKenty and Ann Ryan 2:00 Blind Mary 4:00 Joanna Mell 2:30 Gan Ainm 4:30 McDermott's Handy - - 3:00 Fresh Airs from Old Erin - New Tunes 5:00 Castlegarden Workshop hosted by L.E. McCullough 12:OO Banjo Class with Fintan Malone - - 5:30 Separate Reality 4:00 Songs of the Famine & Emigration 1 :00 Fiddle Class with Brian Conway with Jim Byrne, Karan Casey, Andy Irvine, Mick Moloney and Nigel 2:00 Beginning Tin Whistle with Stevens L.E. McCullough 5:00 The Legacy of Ed Reavy hosted by 3:00 Bodhran Class with Myron Bretholz Roy Rogers with Brian Conway, Billy McComiskey, Kevin McGillian and 4:00 Donegal Style Fiddle with Mick Moloney Roisin Harrigan, Caomhmin MacAoidh and David Abe Events to be determined. Will include Moon Bounce, face painting, playground 5:00 Introduction to the lrish Harp and more. with JoannaMell lrish music session begins at 12 noon at this tent. All players are welcome. Kenny Goldstein 1927-1995 t iswith sadnessthat singers. He often provided accommodations and the Ceili Group honorarium at his classes for traveling musicians. Among Inotes the death on those he brought to Philadelphia included Joe Heaney, November 11th, 1995 of Liam O'Flynn, Delores Keane, Cathal McConnell and Kenny Goldstein, a long- Mick Moloney. He traveled frequently in Ireland time friend and consultant collecting books and songs and shared his extensive song to the group. Recognized collection with prominent lrish folklorists. around the world as a More recently, Kenny was a strong proactive collector and scholar of supporter of the Philadelphia Ceili Group. As our consul- folklore and folksong, he tant he provided guidance and advice on the fall festival. was known by many for his Through his efforts we were able to present storytellers generosity of spirit and strong support of traditional singers Eddie Lenihan and Alice Kane and singer Paddy Berry in in particular. 1988. As an advocate, it was through his efforts that the Ed Licinit asked me to say a few words about Kenny Library of Congress accepted the Ceili Group's tape Goldstein and his contributions to the world of traditional ~0llecti0nafter Seven years of negotiation. This year the music and song. From his obituary you have a good Ceili Group officially recognized and thanked Kenny at description of his considerableprofessional achievements. the Fall festival for his life-long contribution to the Support I would like to speak from a more personal perspective. and preservation of Irish and Celtic culture. I will miss him Kenny deeply loved lrish Music and song. From this terribly, as a friend and mentor, and as a person always love he was motivated to change careers and become a generous, quick with an opinion, and always ready for a folklorist. He used to say with a laugh that because he was good song. His legacy is strong, both in the hearts of his born on St. Patrick's Day he had half a claim on being many friends and in the collection of songs, books and Irish. More seriously, when collecting traditional songs he tapes he has left for all of us -to make our lives richer and felt that having the name Goldstein was an advantage. An filled with song. outsider who loved traditional singing was welcome at all - Robin Hiteshew hearths, regardless s of political or religious persuasion. The Ceili Group has permanently renamed the Meadow stage to the Well known for his generosity Kenny actively Kenny Goldstein Meadow Stage in honor of Kenny's lifelong and signifi- supported and encouraged many Irish musicians and cant support of traditional music and song. AS is fitting of Kenny's love of folksong, there will always be singing presented on this stage. Dan Flynn Sr. 1921 -1 996 n early March of this year Dan died suddenly of a tions, what stands out most is heart attack at the age of 75. Perhaps ironically at the tender heart larger than Ithe start of the mad frenzy known in recent years the stout man he was; the as the "St. Patrick's season." I would hazard a guess Dan warmth and unconditional would find that term both amusing and offensive. For regard and respect he showed those that knew him realize it is a concept foreign to the all he came to know and passion that filled and informed his life. interacted with in his busy Over the past 18 years, I've known Dan to be a life. Perhaps it was grounded vocal and ardent supporter of all things Irish, whether it in the self knowledge he possessed or in the lrish stub- was an annual ball given by one of the various county bornness that drove him never to give up no matter what societies, a ceili thrown by any organization in the the odds. Young or old, Dan welcomed all. It was no Delaware Valley, or an event sponsored by the Ceili surprise that his wake filled the entire church, that all Group or the Irish Center.