The Mountains of Mourne: An Evening with Percy French
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Hosted By:
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Irish South African Association - Cape Town Chapter
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Type:
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Jam Session
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Members R95 / Non-members R125 |
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Start Time:
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Wednesday, 23 November at 19:00
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End Time:
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Wednesday, 23 November at 23:00
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Location:
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Five Flies Restaurant
Keerom Street
Cape Town
Cape Town
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Phone:
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021 713 0154
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Email:
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members@ireland.co.za
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Description:
It is with great pleasure that the Irish South African Association invites you to a special event, an evening of humour and song to celebrate one of Ireland’s greatest comic and romantic song writers, Roscommon-born William Percy French (1854-1920).
Join Professor Donal McCracken for his entertaining talk accompanied by Andrew Bentley on Piano, with the sweet voices of Ivan and Vernell for a night to remember under Table Mountain, voted one of the new 7Wonders of the world. From “The Mountains of Mourne” to “Are ye Right There Michael?” and from ‘Phil the Fluther’s Ball’ to “Come Back Paddy Reilly”, these Irish melodies are simple, poignant and often humorous, in a gentle way, never being cruel or nasty.
Percy French:
A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, then a lackadaisical civil engineer among the bogs of County Cavan and finally full-time songwriter and music-hall raconteur, Percy French did much to create in the popular mind worldwide the easy-going, philosophical peasant stereotype of an Irish person, which was in part silenced by the Celtic Tiger but which still lingers in the unmodernised bars of west Kerry, the turf bogs of north Antrim and the hill farms of Mayo.
There will be a cash bar, where, in the words of Percy French ‘All liquor must be settled for, before the drink is served’
Seating is limited so book now to avoid missing the greatest Irish event in Cape Town since they closed the Breakwater Prison!
RSVP by Friday 18 November
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