Performances
Saturday, November 18th: 9 pm
Irishtown
(Denys Candy, Mark Dignam, Bruce Foley and Mike Gallagher)
Venue: Mullaney's Harp and Fiddle Irish Pub, 2329 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Phone: 412.642.6622
Saturday,
September 9th:
1 pm - 2 pm - Denys Candy with his Celtic Band
LISSADELL
Venue: Main Stage - A Fair in the Park, Mellon Park at Pittsburgh
Center for the Arts: Fifth and Shady Avenues, Pittsburgh
(www.craftsmensguild.org)
Irishtown
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Six
Song Suite
Ducking
Into Hackett's - I think
she's trying to tell us that there's wisdom in the stone
Hackett's Bar in Rosses Point Village in County Sligo sits a few
miles from where I was born. Across the bay Queen Maeve has her
final resting place on the top Knocnarea mountain. That landscape
holds special meaning for me. I wonder what the ancient Queen herself
might be telling us, and who might be listening. And why?
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Sweet
Afternoon - It's a beautiful
day, we go back a long way
There's nothing quite like sitting in the sun or feeling the wind
overlooking beautiful vistas. In Dublin, New England, Saint Nazaire
or San Francisco Bay, the gifts multiply if we can do so with loved
ones- shooting the breeze, enjoying our connection, being ourselves,
inter woven.
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Wash
Away - I remember I've
got today to sit in the sun
Life is crazy and getting crazier! Yet, once in a blue moon, those
moments arrive when we have no choice but to take care of ourselves,
to rest, reflect and heal. That doesn't seem quite often enough,
though, does it? It seems the choice is ours to do so as often as
we like, even every day.
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Calling
Me Home - Something's
inside calling me home
Memories and places can intertwine like vines. Being present in
either the reality or the memory of Sligo evokes and embellishes
experiences of being nurtured, of family community and home that
were so integral that I only had names for them many years after
they were lost to me. I imagine the calling in this song is to something
deeper still.
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Your
Eyes - Where do I seek
hope after disaster?
A love song is a good place to reflect on the mystery of another
person. Half the time we can't see it - in another person or in
ourselves. And then there are those great days when our insight
delves deeper and our enjoyment is unabashed. Great days!
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This
Time - Not stuck in my
head, I'm feeling instead
Somewhere along the line most of us are taught to pull our hearts
away from our bodies and our heads. Nobody ever sat me down and
told me that but I learned it just the same. And I see it everywhere,
cold logic of one kind or another destroying people. Maybe it's
time to let go of that way and only connect instead.
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Denys
M. Candy
AN
IRISHMAN IN AMERICA: DENYS CANDY’S
MUSIC
“So
whether he calls it spirit music,
or not,I don’t care. He took it
Out of wind off Mid-Atlantic.”
-Seamus Heaney
 When
he emigrated from Ireland to the United States over 20 years ago,
Denys Candy packed his guitar and his bodhran (Irish drum), knowing
he would always take his music wherever he traveled. Candy was raised
in a musical home, with “big sing-songs” at holiday
gatherings, and spent his formative years immersed in the music
of great Irish artists who were innovating with the Celtic tradition—the
Chieftains, Planxty, The Bothy Band and Christy Moore, whom Candy
refers to as “the Bard Laureate of Ireland”. All of
these influences have converged in Candy’s unique style of
songwriting and playing that is part storytelling, part homage to
his roots, and part a departure into his own musical path. It is
a “Mid-Atlantic Mix,” blending Irish, British, and American
influences.
After
settling down in Western Pennsylvania, Candy spent a decade writing
songs and playing in various local bands, including the original
Ploughman's Lunch, Loch Gill, and Inish. Now,Candy is back with
Six Song Suite, a new CD featuring many musical friends.
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