4.02.001: Media clippings, 1991-1997

              The Evening Telegram
July 27-August 2 - Page 3
INDEX
For the week of
July 27,1996
August 2,1996
Feature    Page No.
Movie Listings 4-16
TV Listings 17-23,33-52
TV Crossword 13
Soap Taik 7
Comics     25-27,30,31
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TRIVIA
The next Summer Olympic Games
will be held in Sydney, Australia, in
the year 2000. A host city for summer 2004 is pending.
TRIVIA
Just four countries have participated
in every modern Olympiad: Greece,
Switzerland, Australia and Great
Britain.
IN FOCUS
Jon Voight rides the open ranges as
WtxHlrow (all in Kcturn to hmesomc
l)ovt\ beginning Tuesday. July 30.
and continuing Wednesday and Thursday. July 31 and Aug. I. on CBS.
This IW3 Western miniscries continues the story where the IVH9 movie
I utu'soitw Dove ended.
Alter burying (ius McC'nte in Texas,
Call returns In Montana where he
must confront his relationships with
Clara (Barbara Hershey) and his son.
Newt (Rick Schroder). Oliver Reed
and l.ouis (Jossctl Jr. also slur.
The piper ret;
By MARK VAUGHAN-JACKSON
The Evening Telegram
For the last few years uillean piper Paddy Keenan has been a fairly regular visitor to St. John's, flying in to work on his new solo album being
recorded here.
Keenan is back in the province but this time he's here to play a little
music, see some sights and relax a little.
The last time he was here in March he played a couple of packed houses
at the Ship Inn but spent most of his time in Don Walsh's recording studio.
"Every time Paddy's been here he's been here to work. He's never actually had time to just sit down and relax," Walsh said. "He loves the place
but he's never had time to just sit back and enjoy it. So the Carbonear festival and St. John's festival are flying him in to play and we're doing the one
gig but otherwise he's here to relax and just enjoy the place."
Internationally Keenan is widely regarded as one of the preeminent players of the Irish uillean pipes. During this trip he'll be performing at the
18th annual Conception Bay Folk Festival in Carbonear this weekend and
the 20th annual St. John's Folk Festival next weekend. He'll also be performing for one night only at The Ship Inn on Aug. 1 with Walsh and
Fergus O'Byrne.
In the early 1970s Keenan played with The Bothy Band, a group that
revitalized traditional Irish music for a contemporary audience. Since then
he's had several solo albums, played with on major motion picture soundtracks and with international rock and pop stars.
Keenan's new album, his first solo album release in 12 years, is called
Na Keen Affair and is all but finished, recorded primarily here in St.
John's.
The album features some of the leading lights of both the Irish and
Newfoundland music scenes: ex-Bothy Band member Tommy peoples,
guitarist Arty McGlynn who played with Van Morrison for years, and
Niall Vallely, who O' Byrne describes as the best concertina player he's
ever heard all from Ireland and O'Byrne, Walsh, Sandy Morris, Cellist
Francesca Swann, Gerry Strong, and Jim Fidler all from Newfoundland.
For Walsh and O'Byrne, playing on Keenan's album and performing
with him on stage has been an eye opening experience.
"It's a treat for me. I've admired Paddy Keenan ever since I've been in
the music business. As soon as the Bothy Band came on the market I just
grabbed up the albums," O'Byrne said. 'To be able to sit next to him and
just play is just wonderful."
O'Byrne said not only is this going to be a fine album in its own right, it
will also be an album with a high Newfoundland content that will more
than likely be a strong international seller.
"It's a great credit to the Newfoundland contingent to be on it.
Personally I'm just thrilled to be on the album with such notable people as
those Irish players," O'Byrne said.
As an example of the Newfoundland connection O'Byrne mentioned a
tune called Kildevil Air, written by Gerry Strong, a Carbonear musicians
who also plays with Walsh and O'Byrne in the band Tickleharbour.
"For Paddy to pick that particular slow air, the compliment to a
Newfoundland writer is just incredible," O'Byrne said. "I think it's going
to be very positive on the world scene to be linking Ireland and
Newfoundland (on this album). Obviously people from all over the world
are going to be buying this Paddy Keenan album and saying 'Jeez,
Newfoundland?' If they don't know where it is they're certainly going to
know now."
Walsh said Keenan's album is all but complete. The mixing is done and
all that remains is the liner notes, the artwork and the final negotiations
with record companies. The album should be released in late August or
early September.
'The thing about this album is it is an international seller," Walsh said.
"It's almost like Newfoundland making the connection, finally, with the
Celtic scene that's going to be international."