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Dervish Warms Dreary Day 0'' 0'' A BY KAREN BOSSICK
few audience members initially thought that Thursday night’s performance at The Liberty Theatre in Hailey would feature whirling dervishes caught up in spiritual rapture as they spin around in dance. Instead, they themselves got caught up in rapture as the six-member Irish band Dervish spun two hours of high-energy reels and airs on flute, accordion, bouzouki, mandola, bodhran and even bones. “Irish music is so fun anyway—it’s so fast and energetic. And this group is really good. I like all their different instruments,� said Siouxie Essence. This is the fifteenth St. Paddy’s Day the group has spent in the United States and its first in Idaho. Singer Cathy Jordan noted how her aunt, who had moved to Eden, Idaho, traveled all the way to the Bronx to see her first concert tour in the States as she delivered a beguiling a cappella song in traditional Irish brogue honoring those who have had to leave Ireland. The concert warmed a dreary, rainy day that resembled Ireland’s weather more than Sun Valley’s. “This is what we have to put up with 364 days of the year,�
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said Jordan. Liam Kelly’s flute lilted through the air of the theater, which sound man Ted Macklin, who worked with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola for six years, says boasts the best acoustics in the valley. Jordan danced in her seat as she played the bodhran—an Irish drum that resembles a tambourine and is beat with a drumstick. It was difficult not to join her in the dance but many tried bouncing around in their seat and tapping their own feet on the floor. Jordan sang of itinerant laborers forced to take to the road— something that’s in vogue today 150 years after the song was first sung. She sang of a man who wooed Mary with strong Irish whiskey, only to find that they didn’t speak one another’s language—she being English and he being Irish. She imbued it all with a keen sense of wit, noting in one case how the SkyMiles was advertising a new system for teaching a cat to use a toilet. “We can’t even get a man to do that,� she kidded. By the end of the evening the audience was singing along to “Welcome Poor Paddy Home.� “Paddy came home because everything he wanted was there.
He obviously hadn’t been to Sun Valley,� Jordan noted.
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Dervish capped an entertaining, diverse and educational winter concert series put together by the Sun Valley Center for the Arts. But music fans don’t have to wait to snag tickets to the next winter concert series. Kristine Bretall says The Center plans to begin selling series tickets for the 2013 series from March 21 through April 4. The lineup includes the Carolina Chocolate Drops, who won a Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album with their old-time fiddle and banjo music; New Brunswick singer and songwriter Matt Andersen; Dala, Canada’s folk music Vocal Duet of the Year; and the Sybarites, a string quartet that has even played for the Dalai Lama. The series will also include a cabaret evening with the Michael Kaeshammer Trio, known for its “incendiary� jazz, soul, pop and rhythm and blues. Bretall says she is still awaiting confirmation on the last show of the summer concert series. Tickets to the summer concert series should go on sale to Center members beginning April 6. Ticket sales cover just 40 percent of the actual cost of the concerts, Bretall noted. Membership fees and sponsors, such as BSU Public Radio and US Bank, help cover the remainder of the cost. tws
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